The eighties weren't kind to Joni Mitchell, and the quintessential introspective
singer-songwriter of the Sixties and Seventies disliked them right back. In the liner notes to
this box set of her four albums released between 1982 and 1991, Mitchell writes, "To be in
sync with the times, in my opinion, was to be degenerating both morally and artistically."
Mitchell's Achilles' heel, a growing self-righteousness, begins to afflict her art. A...
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