Joni Mitchell gave a rare interview to director Cameron Crowe for the Los Angeles Times to share her thoughts on her iconic 1971 album Blue turning 50 years old this year. “Sometimes I wonder why it got all the attention, and not my other “children,” you know?
Court and Spark, Hejira,” Mitchell mused of the enduring popularity of Blue. “Like all of my albums, Blue came out of the chute with a whimper,” she recalled. “It didn’t really take off until later.
Now there’s a lot of fuss being made over it, but there wasn’t initially. The most feedback that I got was that I had gone too far and was exposing too much of myself.
Read more on etcanada.com