#20 - A Case of You / Joni Mitchell

About this episode

The episode explores Joni Mitchell's songwriting in her album 'Blue' and the significance of writing from personal experience.

Writing candidly about intimate, private moments and feelings is today such an accepted practice in pop songwriting that it can be startling to go back to 1971 and find Joni Mitchell reflecting that, at that point, 'the only thing that I could see to do fresh, that hadn't really been explored poetically, was the internal landscape. … [to] write from my own experience … was one of the few territories left for a poet to be a contributor of any kind'. The album she's talking about is Blue, and i...

People in this episode

Host: Anthony

Topics covered

• songwriting
• personal experience
• music history
• Joni Mitchell
• intimacy in lyrics

Keywords

• Joni Mitchell
• Blue
• songwriting
• intimate lyrics
• music history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Blue