民謠女歌手 Joni Mitchell 於一九七一年發行的經典之作。在六○年代的社運、學運已成過往雲煙後，回歸藝術家身分的Joni Mitchell，以纖細、感性之筆，寫下Blue中連篇美麗的樂章：“My Old Man”描繪無須法律約束就能地老天荒的愛情；“Blue"和“California”則以略帶憂傷的口吻，描繪社運結束後，發現社會仍無改變的惆悵； "The Last Time I Saw Richard"深刻描繪了知識分子的犬儒與失落……清淡如詩的口吻，娓娓道來日常的生活情境，蘊含的卻是極為深刻的社會觀察與生命哲思，充分展現「女性創作歌手第一人」的實力。

羅伯塔·瓊·「瓊妮」·密契爾，是一個加拿大音樂家，作詞者，畫家。 密契爾的歌唱生涯始於故鄉，加拿大的西部小城薩斯喀徹溫省薩斯卡通市。六零年代中期，瓊妮輾轉多倫多、美國等地，在夜總會唱歌、街頭賣藝。隨後，她與1960年代中期在紐約市的民間音樂的萌芽有了聯繫。

羅伯塔·瓊·「瓊妮」·密契爾，是一個加拿大音樂家，作詞者，畫家。 密契爾的歌唱生涯始於故鄉，加拿大的西部小城薩斯喀徹溫省薩斯卡通市。六零年代中期，瓊妮輾轉多倫多、美國等地，在夜總會唱歌、街頭賣藝。隨後，她與1960年代中期在紐約市的民間音樂的萌芽有了聯繫。

羅伯塔·瓊·「瓊妮」·密契爾，是一個加拿大音樂家，作詞者，畫家。 密契爾的歌唱生涯始於故鄉，加拿大的西部小城薩斯喀徹溫省薩斯卡通市。六零年代中期，瓊妮輾轉多倫多、美國等地，在夜總會唱歌、街頭賣藝。隨後，她與1960年代中期在紐約市的民間音樂的萌芽有了聯繫。

羅伯塔·瓊·「瓊妮」·密契爾，是一個加拿大音樂家，作詞者，畫家。 密契爾的歌唱生涯始於故鄉，加拿大的西部小城薩斯喀徹溫省薩斯卡通市。六零年代中期，瓊妮輾轉多倫多、美國等地，在夜總會唱歌、街頭賣藝。隨後，她與1960年代中期在紐約市的民間音樂的萌芽有了聯繫。

Painter-turned-folksinger Joni Mitchell had slipped stark saxophone solos into her prior album, For the Roses, and her singing had often hinted at a capacity for bluesier fare than her guitar- and piano-framed confessional ballads offered. None of those hints prepared fans for this sudden, expansive shift toward a much larger canvas--a sleeker, orchestrated pop style pulsing with jazz elements. Court & Spark found Mitchell casting aside her earth mother affectations and revealing herself as the thoroughly modern, thoroughly complicated woman she is; the songs sustained familiar preoccupations with relationships but replaced courtly settings and naturalistic imagery with recognizably modern locales. Deeply romantic, constantly questioning, classic tracks like the title song, "Help Me," "Free Man in Paris," "Same Situation," and "Raised on Robbery" display a more liberated Mitchell, ready to rumble with unbridled electric guitars (guest Robbie Robertson on "...Robbery"), even willing to poke fun at her own oh-so-sensitive rep with a hip cover of Annie Ross´s hilarious "Twisted."

羅伯塔·瓊·「瓊妮」·密契爾，是一個加拿大音樂家，作詞者，畫家。 密契爾的歌唱生涯始於故鄉，加拿大的西部小城薩斯喀徹溫省薩斯卡通市。六零年代中期，瓊妮輾轉多倫多、美國等地，在夜總會唱歌、街頭賣藝。隨後，她與1960年代中期在紐約市的民間音樂的萌芽有了聯繫。

Joni Mitchell evolved from the smooth jazz-pop of Court and Spark to the radical Hissing of Summer Lawns, an adventurous work that remains among her most difficult records. After opening with the graceful "In France They Kiss on Main Street," the album veers sharply into "The Jungle Line," an odd, Moog-driven piece backed by the rhythms of the warrior drums of Burundi -- a move into multiculturalism that beat the likes of Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, and Sting to the punch by a decade. While not as prescient, songs like "Edith and the Kingpin" and "Harry's House -- Centerpiece" are no less complex or idiosyncratic, employing minor-key melodies and richly detailed lyrics to arrive at a strange and beautiful fusion of jazz and shimmering avant pop.

羅伯塔·瓊·「瓊妮」·密契爾，是一個加拿大音樂家，作詞者，畫家。 密契爾的歌唱生涯始於故鄉，加拿大的西部小城薩斯喀徹溫省薩斯卡通市。六零年代中期，瓊妮輾轉多倫多、美國等地，在夜總會唱歌、街頭賣藝。隨後，她與1960年代中期在紐約市的民間音樂的萌芽有了聯繫。