Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

'Court and Spark' found Mitchell casting aside her earth mother affectations and revealing herself as the thoroughly modern, thoroughly complicated woman she is; the songs sustained familiar preoccupations with relationships but replaced courtly settings and naturalistic imagery with recognizably modern locales. deeply romantic, constantly questioning, these classic tracks display a more liberated Mitchell, ready to rumble with unbridled electric guitars and even willing to poke fun at her own oh-so-sensitive rep with a hip cover of Annie Ross's hilarious 'twisted'.