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    JONI MITCHELL

    Sep 16, 2021 3 minutes
    By Rob Young

    The Joni Mitchell Archives Volume 2: The Reprise Albums (1968–1971) WARNER BROTHERS

    8/10

    Extras from pop’s moment of possibility.

    WHAT a time it was, 50 years ago and more, when Joni strode to power, part of a musical royalty whose clarions shouted dominion over a broad Earth. Fans waited, breath bated, for the latest album/bulletin from lives lived in luxurious wonder. Hearth ballads for McLuhan’s global campfire. Picaresques and intrigues from the fabled Canyon came alive in the music she made between 1968 and ’71, as the poet

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