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For the Roses — Joni Mitchell album cover

For the Roses

FolkJazzEnglish
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Mitchell wrote it while briefly stepping back from the music industry, turning her ambivalence about fame into the record's central subject.

It's often praised as an underappreciated bridge between her folk period and her jazz-inflected later work.

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