Records We Love: ‘Shadows and Light’ by Joni Mitchell

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Records We Love: ‘Shadows and Light’ by Joni Mitchell

It makes a lot of sense that Joni Mitchell’s musical career eventually shifted towards jazz. Mitchell started as one of the most important folk trailblazers of her time. She paved new roads and solidified her genius early on with inventive open-tuning guitar playing meant to mimic human emotion, melodic vocal phrasing and a storytelling quality of songwriting ladled heavily with themes of her own introspection. Always an evolving artist, Joni’s …