JONI MITCHELL
Ladies Of The Canyon REPRISE, 1970
There’s so many Joni records that have been deeply formative and influential for me as a musician and a writer and a human, but the reason I picked is because that’s tied to my first musical memory. It was my mum’s favourite record when I was in foster care, and I would go for these brief visits with my mum at my grandma’s house because she wasn’t allowed to be unsupervised with me at that point. I would be hiding under the piano, listening to her play along to . I was electrified by the clarinet coda of “For Free”. And then of course,
