Joni Mitchell's Blue

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Joni Mitchell’s Blue (1971) is the fourth album she recorded and is regarded as one of the greatest albums ever made. The brutally honest and emotionally laced songs received all positive reviews. One of those music pieces is “A Case of You” and features “James Taylor on acoustic guitar, Russ Kunkel on drums, and Joni on Appalachian dulcimer” (Beviglia 1). Being one of her best-known songs, “A Case of You” have been covered by over two hundred music artists. There are, however, only rumors and guesses on who the music piece is about. Other than her marriages, she has been romantically intimate with James Taylor, Graham Nash, and David Crosby. Each one of these men have been suspected, but nothing has been revealed by Mitchell.
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