Joni Mitchell: How 'Free Man In Paris' came along
Johnny Black, Blender, September 2004
WHEN Joni Mitchell played the finished tapes of her 1974 album Court and Spark for her Asylum Records labelmate Bob Dylan, the venerated spokesman of his generation fell asleep. "I think Bobby was just being cute," is how Mitchell figures it.
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