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The Groove: Albums from Joni Mitchell, Cream, the Band and more

uncredited writer, TeenSet, September 1968

AT ONE point almost every creative songwriter in this country has been labeled a poet by one critic or zealous reviewer, and students of English have become more and more horrified that the rambling undisciplined verbalizing of the songwriters should be dubbed poetry. But the labeling is not what's important, it's what the words are saying.

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