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Larry.Deaton@gmail.com's avatar

“Underlying it all is the sound design that David Crosby, who produced the album, created. It positions Mitchell as performing in a subway station or a cathedral. It accentuates that at its heart, Song to a Seagull is a masterwork of acid-folk, an antecedent to Laura Nyro’s New York Tendaberry (though I wouldn’t neccessarily call that album acid-folk), Linda Perhac’s Parallelograms and Judee Sill’s debut. It’s an opinion, admittedly, that is not widely shared.” Yeah, there some real problems with the audio mix, problems that Crosby freely admitted to. But he gave her almost total artistic control and she has never really expressed any gratitude about that as far as I know. I love her music. I bought every one of her LPS from the beginning, but I would much prefer to share a meal with Crosby if he were still alive than with her. She’s truly like Picasso … magnificent but often monstrous.

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Colin Cerniglia's avatar

I’ve come around in the last year or so to the idea of owning physical music. For so long, streaming seemed so easy (and it is) but nothing can replace the listening experience of a physically owned album, which you write in detail so well. Thanks for the reminder and a great piece on Joni!!

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