Release date: 15-05-2000 (re-issue from 1971 album)

2006 US limited edition 10-track LP pressed on 180gram VIRGIN VINYL; originally released in 1971, this album is often considered Joni's best work, superbly remastered by Kevin Gray & Steve Hoffman, this is the closest you will ever be able to get to the sound of the true master tape! Presented in high quality pasted gatefold sleeve - sealed

Tracks;
   01. All I Want
   02. My Old Man 
   03. Little Green 
   04. Carey 
   05. Blue
   06. California
   07. This Flight Tonight
   08. River 
   09. A Case Of You 
   10. The Last Time I Saw Richard

Joni Mitchell emerged as a darling of the late 1960s folk scene as a lyrically gifted songwriter and honey-voiced golden girl. In the '70s, she went on to incorporate jazz and confessional pop-rock into her musical vision, ultimately creating a poetic, earthy brand of art song that earned her a legion of admirers. While she has drifted in and out of fashion in her later career, she's among the most talented artists of her generation, and more than a few performers have her to thank for their careers.

"Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessential confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, Joni Mitchell's songs are raw nerves, tales of love and loss (two words with relative meaning here) etched with stunning complexity; even tracks like 'All I Want,' 'My Old Man,' and 'Carey'  the brightest, most hopeful moments on the record  are darkened by bittersweet moments of sorrow and loneliness."  = All Music Guide

Joni Mitchell's third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there's the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in "Big Yellow Taxi," and the formal metaphor of her older songs ("The Circle Game," already oft-covered by the time of this recording) yields to the more impressionistic images of the new ones ("Woodstock"). The dark lyricism of her earliest ballads is intact (on "For Free" and "Rainy Night House"), yet there's a prevailing idealism here that sounds poignant alongside the warier, more mature songs to come on Blue and Court And Spark. --Sam Sutherland Amazon.com