Old music: Joni Mitchell – Carey

If you're having doubts about your life, Joni Mitchell's voice might swoop in unbidden, telling you to listen to yourself Carey isn't Joni Mitchell's best song. It isn't even the best on Blue, the album on which it appears (A Case of You is, obviously. Or is itCalifornia?). But it is the one song I know for sure has stamped itself on my mind in a way that goes beyond merely liking the melody or a clever lyric.I rarely choose to play it; it chooses to swim up from my subconscious and play itself ...

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