My wife saw me putting on my new LP of Joni Mitchell’s great For the Roses album and said: “Oh, our breakup album!” Never mind the confusing details—we’re obviously still (or again) together—that’s how intense the bonds are for many people with Joni’s music: We people of a certain age set the clock of our lives by her recordings.
Enough time has passed now in the history of music that succeeding generations can connect with music that was new when their parents or even grandparents were young. This tends to happen with the best
