For the Roses

Joni Mitchell - For the Roses

For the Roses
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Artist: Joni Mitchell
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Banquet
  2. Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
  3. Barangrill
  4. Lesson in Survival
  5. Let the Wind Carry Me
  6. For the Roses
  7. See You Sometime
  8. Electricity
  9. You Turn Me on I'm a Radio
  10. Blonde in the Bleachers
  11. Woman of Heart and Mind
  12. Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune)

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Free Music Review: It's hard to review Joni
Hit: 5 Stars

It's such a personal thing to even think about Joni Mitchell. All of her songs are so beautiful and we all have our favorites. This is one of her 4 or 5 greatest albums. I love this album and "Blue", "Ladies..." and "Court and Spark". My all-time favorite album by her is easily "Miles of Aisles" due to its enormous at-the-crossroads appeal. She had one foot in confessional folk tunes and one foot ready to jump into jazz. One great and overlooked thing about "For the Roses" - Joni, you never ever looked better than you do on the cover. A remarkably beautiful lady, to be sure. When I bought the original LP way back in the 70's, after getting past the cover photo, I was shocked to open up the cover and find a NUDE photo of Joni! Wow, she could have been a model. But then we would have missed all of that wonderful catalog of heartfelt songs......

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Sandwiched between the solitary, heart-on-her-sleeve confessions of Blue and the ravishing pop of Court and Spark, 1972's For the Roses captures Joni Mitchell in a deceptively subdued period of transition. Still hewing to a spare sound, Mitchell ventures beyond the elegant folk sources of earlier records to explore her love of blues and jazz-based harmony, writing as much on piano as guitar; thematically, the earnest reveries and heartbroken dirges of before give way to a more detached, even journalistic perspective and darker, grittier settings, most strikingly on "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire." "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" was the set's nominal hit, yet in hindsight the keepers here are found in evolutionary pieces like the jazz-tinged "Barangrill," the rock-infused "Blonde in the Bleachers," and in more sober meditations like "Woman of Heart and Mind"--testaments to her restless growth and signposts to the more mature music ahead. --Sam Sutherland

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