Joni Mitchell – Hejira (VG/VG+) – LP, AU 1976

Hejira is an LP by Joni Mitchell from 1976 released on the Asylum Records label.

About this album

Hejira is one of Joni Mitchell’s most celebrated albums, a searching 1976 work that finds her expanding folk-rock into a cooler, jazz-inflected language. Written during a period of constant travel, the record turns movement, distance and self-reflection into vivid songs such as Coyote, Amelia and Song for Sharon. Mitchell’s open-tuned guitar style and observational writing are matched by spare, highly skilled playing from a small group of musicians, giving the album its distinctive sense of motion and clarity. Widely regarded as a landmark in her catalogue, Hejira helped define the late-1970s singer-songwriter album as something intellectually restless as well as personal.

Genre: Pop & Rock

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