Let The Music Oracles Speak: The January Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread

January 30: Joni Mitchell

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An album i could have also played for Johnny Cash day, but all four women on here are surely inspired by Joni Mitchell and Brandi Carlisle especially has been instrumental to Jonis recent live comeback
 
Day 30
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Various Artists - Wayfaring Stranger: Ladies from the Canyon

From Numero:
By 1970, the folk revival had all but ended. Gone were the heady days of “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” and “If I Had A Hammer.” Hootenannyhad been cancelled. Broadside was out, Rolling Stone in. Richard Fariña was dead; Bob Dylan had plugged in. Paths paved by Joan Baez and Judy Collins had led a younger, more introspective generation of songwriters into the woods, while the ethos forged in weather-beaten hills and tempered on the lower east side of Manhattan was being reborn in the canyons of California, as songs for seagulls crafted in Joni Mitchell’s visage. Culled from beyond the crop of crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon examines the world of private folk via the works of 13 unlikely heroines who sang beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing to coffeehouse chatter and church picnic silence. Each of these Wayfaring Strangers walk in the handmade aesthetic of lyrics scribbled into faded denim, of delicate movements captured and released.
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Day 29: Prince
Prince - Controversy
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This album was released a few months before I was born in 1981. I kinda hope that my mom was jamming out to it while I was in the womb but she wasn’t that cool even in her early 20s. She was probably listening to Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibbs duet on “Guilty”, a single I know she had at the time.
 
Day 30: Joni Mitchell
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
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David Crosby’s solo debut was recorded with a little help from his Laurel Canyon and Haight-Ashbury friends amongst them were many members of The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young, and Neil’s fellow Canadian ex-pat, Joni Mitchell. They would informally refer to themselves as The Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra. Joni would sing back up on couple of tracks featured on the album.
 
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