There’s Joni and then there’s everything else.
Joni Mitchell’s 1971 album Blue will for ever stand as the untouchable apogee of the singer-songwriter genre, a thing of delicate beauty that is also, somehow, as strong as steel. But for some of us, Mitchell got even better with the run of albums from 1974’s Court And Spark – asizable hit record – through the following year’s The Hissing Of Summer Lawns to Hejira in 1976.