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The Joni Mitchell Archive Series: The Reprise Albums (1968–1971) RHINO

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IN 1979, Joni Mitchell gave an interview to , in which she talked about her album , released eight years previously, and still the high-water mark of her career. “There’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals,” she told the magazine. “At that period in my life, I had no personal defences. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the

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