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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

The scandal-ridden former representative was tapped by the Florida House speaker to help steer an organization doling out recovery funds from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. read more


The Republican-controlled US Senate has approved a measure instructing President Donald Trump to halt the war in Iran or seek congressional approval before continuing military action.

A handful of Republicans joined Democrats in the 50-48 vote on Tuesday, marking a bipartisan show of disapproval of the war, which began in February.


Sometimes an album can be successful upon release, but still not be fully appreciated until years later. Such is the case with Blue, Joni Mitchell's 1971 classic, released 55 years ago today. read more


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You are!

I was expecting the first post to be one of the, "I hate her voice!" posts ;)

Here's a performance at the BBC a year before Blue came out... including the solo piano version of her song Woodstock before CSNY made it famous, and several that were on Blue:

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00:00 Chelsea Morning (HD)
03:17 Hunter
07:10 The Gallery
11:38 Cactus Tree (HD)
16:46 My Old Man (HD)
20:00 For Free (HD)
25:26 Woodstock
30:34 Willy (missing)
30:59 Intro to All I Want
32:14 All I Want
37:00 California (HD)
41:54 Big Yellow Taxi (HD)
44:31 Both Sides, Now (HD)

Joni Mitchell - Guitar, Piano & Dulcimer

(the 2nd and 3rd songs are older folk songs for her fans, but easily skippable for a lot of people)

Doubt she'll be with us much longer.

"On this day (June 22) in 1971, Joni Mitchell released Blue. It was an intensely honest and emotional release in which Mitchell bared her soul to the world. Songs like "Case of You," "Carey," "California," and "This Flight Tonight" have become cornerstones of her discography."

"In the decades since its release, it has been hailed by multiple critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Several life events inspired songs from the Blue. The end of Mitchell's relationship with Graham Nash, her ongoing relationship with James Taylor, and putting her daughter up for adoption in 1965 were the major contributors, though.

"Why I wrote the songs on Blue, the point is that soon after I'd given up my daughter for adoption, I had a house and a car and I had the means and I'd become a public figure," she recalled.

"The combination of those situations did not sit well. So, I kind of withdrew from music, began to go inside, and question who I was. Out of that, Blue evolved.

"We had to close the doors and lock them while I recorded Blue," Joni Mitchell recalled in a 1996 interview.

"I was in a state of mind that, in this culture, would be called a nervous breakdown. In pockets of the Orient, it would be considered a shamanic conversion," she added.

She recalled playing Blue for Kris Kristofferson. "God, Joan, save something of yourself," he exclaimed upon hearing it.

"He was embarrassed by it," she reflected. "I think, generally, at first that people were embarrassed by it, that in a certain way it was shocking, especially in the pop arena."
(excerpts)

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