My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

As Joni Mitchell added new folk songs to her repertoire Joni Mitchell began to devise dozens of alternative tunings that allowed her to play each song. In the United Kingdom the album premiered at No. Layered atmospheric compositions such as "Overture / Cotton Avenue" featured more improvisatory collaboration while "Paprika Plains" was a 16-minute epic that stretched the boundaries of pop owing more to Mitchell's memories of childhood in Canada and her study of classical music.

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Mitchell has deeply influenced fellow musicians in a diverse range of genres and her work is highly respected by critics. In the interim Mitchell has turned again toward pop embraced electronic music and engaged in political protest.