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School of Rock Study Guide: Singer-Songwriters

Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, October 2008

"WHERE DO YOU have left to go but in?" It was a question posed by Joni Mitchell, the brilliant Canadian blonde who specialized in intensely personal songs about her life and loves. Mitchell was one of many folkies from the early '60s who took their cue from Bob Dylan's spurning of topical protest in favour of more subjective poetics.

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