It’s on her accessible third album where Mitchell started to change the straight folk direction her previous two albums took toward a heavy textured pop.
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Mitchell’s place in history as a songwriter and composer is outside the realm of “normal.” And ‘Court and Spark’ is anything but.
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The music industry is traditionally loath to put women in control of their sound and image, but Mitchell was very much in control of shaping her fourth studio affair.
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It didn’t matter to Mitchell that her seventh studio album’s esoteric lean made choosing a single nearly impossible at the time. This was the album she wanted to make.
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