Joni Mitchell
Clouds
mitchell's second album like her first focuses almost exclusively on her acoustic guitar and voice though the sound is similar to her debut recording there's a lot of progression evident in the songwriting here mitchell comes across as the quintessential folk poet highly literate guardedly emotional somewhat collegiate but full of enough talent andidiosyncrasy to pull listeners into her web 'both sides now' a beautiful lowkey anthem of disillusionment from whichthe album's title is derived became something of an anthemfor the woodstock set other less wellknown tunes like 'that song about the midway' and the mysterioussounding 'roses blue' make just as much of an impression the joyous 'chelsea morning' would eventually provide president clinton witha name for his daughter even if he did think judy collins wrote the song