Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Joni Mitchell - Day After Day

Some more very early Joni. According to her Wikipedia article, this is the first song she wrote. Looked at in that light, it's a stunning piece of work, with a level of musical complexity that the average guitar-picking folksinger in the early sixties could only have dreamed of. Not that it's perfect, and she wrote enough better songs that she never officially released it, but as a sign of just who that person was already, it's remarkable.

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