Harper Collins £25.00
What did Joni Mitchell ever do to deserve Ann Powers?
The singer-songwriter has a scything soprano that can go from to harmony to hysteria in a breath. Along with her fresh-minted chords, she produces almost gratuitously clear ruminations on what in one song she mockingly calls ‘the slings and arrows of outrageous romance’.
But here she is transformed into a pre-feminist automaton, forever fighting shy