the original Guardian review of Blue

This is such a car crash. If I was the Guardian I'd probably have left it in the archive, but it is fascinating how little reviewers grasped of the brilliance and groundbreaking nature of this album.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/from-the-archive-blog/2021/jun/21/joni-mitchell-blue-reviewed-archive-1971

wonderful excerpt from RECKLESS DAUGHTER: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joni-mitchell-dug-deep-to-make-her-dark-masterpiece-blue

Story songs: The Last Time I Saw Richard

This AV Club list of 26 songs that are just as good as short stories includes a moving explanation of The Last Time I Saw Richard.

The Ten Joni Mitchell Songs Everyone Should Know by CBC

http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/09/the-10-joni-mitchell-songs-everyone-should-know.html - not including A Case Of You - hmm.

Mine would be:

1. A Case Of You
2. River
3. Carey
4. Blue
5. The Last Time I Saw Richard
6. California
7. All I Want
8. My Old Man
9. Big Yellow Taxi
10. Both Sides Now

a moving piece about what Blue meant and means to one person

http://themusic.com.au/blog/music/2013/11/12/good-or-shit-joni-mitchell-songs-are-like-tattoos/

four people listen to Blue, three of them get it

http://afyccim.com/joni_mitchell/

Top Ten Joni Mitchell Songs from Ultimate Classic Rock

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/joni-mitchell-songs/

a blog of appreciation from someone who discovered Blue in the 1990s

http://www.riazali.com/2012/11/05/joni-mitchell/

Mick Brown reviews Joni Mitchell's ten studio albums box set in the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/9655783/The-Studio-Albums-1968-1979-by-Joni-Mitchell-review.html

A discussion of Blue on Australian radio

http://blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2012/04/the-album-that-defines-the-musician-joni-mitchell.html

nice piece about Carey from The Guardian, including the amazing Matala link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/apr/19/old-music-joni-mitchell-carey

nice appreciation of Blue in this article about sad songs

http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/04/sara_brenesakerman_finding_the_glad_in_sad_songs

nice appreciation of Joni from She Does The City Teen

http://shedoesthecityteen.com/girl-crush-of-the-month-joni-mitchell/

nice appreciation of Blue from Sounds Of The Funky Goat

http://soundsfromthefunkygoat.blogspot.com/2011/09/joni-mitchell-blue.html

appreciation of Blue, particularly when listening on vinyl, from the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame

http://canadianmusichalloffame.ca/can-we-talk-about-how-awesome-this-is-blue-by-joni-mitchell/

Albums of Our Lives piece on Blue by Katy Henriksen

http://therumpus.net/2011/11/albums-of-our-lives-joni-mitchells-blue/

a review of Blue by an intern who prefers Laura Marling

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/10/11/141232995/youve-never-heard-joni-mitchells-blue

in 2004, Pitchfork called Blue the 86th best album of the seventies

Way off!

The review appears to have been written by a robot.

the author Colm Tóibín writes about Blue as his favourite album

http://lanew-yorkaise.com/?p=578

song-by-song discussion of the album

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-199266.html