Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ Turns 55 | Album Anniversary

June 14, 2026 Mark Chappelle

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.

Joni Mitchell’s ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

November 1, 2025 Mark Chappelle

Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns Turns 50

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.

Joni Mitchell’s ‘Ladies of the Canyon’ Turns 55 | Album Anniversary

April 1, 2025 Sarah Paolantonio

Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon Turns 55

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.

Joni Mitchell’s ‘Court and Spark’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

January 15, 2024 Sarah Paolantonio

Mitchell’s place in history as a songwriter and composer is outside the realm of “normal.” And ‘Court and Spark’ is anything but.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.