CLEAN '68 Orig 1st JONI MITCHELL SONG TO A SEAGULL - DAVID CROSBY STEVE STILLS

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           CLEAN 1968 ((TWO-TONE)) FIRST PRESS   

                       JONI MITCHELL

          Song To A Seagull                  

                       USA - TWO-TONE REPRISE - 6341    

VERY FIRST ALBUM FROM 1968 with Steve Stills & David Crosby = LOOKS & PLAYS CLEAN ...

Original 1968 first pressing on the highly sought after TWO-TONE Reprise records label...this is the thick GATEFOLD first pressing = Collection ready

The very first album by Joni Mitchell when she was virtually an unknown hippie artist who is accompanied by Stephen Stills on guitar with David Crosby producing ... you won't easily find a better copy - this one is a TOP copy....

David Crosby-produced album is a sparse and beautiful folk record. This was Joni Mitchell's very first album, yet already it was apparent that here was an immense lyrical talent. "Song To a Seagul" is something of a curiosity, her early folksy style is already in full flowering but unlike the 2 albums that would truly cement Ms Mitchell's status as the queen of the hip Laurel Canyon scene, the album is a strange, dark, occasionally earthy album, thankfully missing much of the tweeness that would hamper her work pre "Blue". One might be tempted to put this down to the sparse, empty, distant production by David Crosby and it is Mitchell's, often harsh, songs that give the album it's depth.

This raw quality is brought to the fore on the album's most impressive tracks, the sad and mournful opener "I Had A King", the dark and brooding "Nathan La Franeer", the joyful "Night In The City", the lonely, aching pull of "Marcie" and the harsh realities of the wonderful "The Dawntreader", these tracks capture the painful honesty that would find it's true spiritual home on Mitchell's most celebrated work "Blue" albeit here on her debut in more abstract forms. The title track is soaked in hippie imagery, whilst "Sistowbell Lane" features a marvellous opening, and the lyrical style that Mitchell mines on "The Pirate Of Penance"is one of the more successful tracks on side two.

Overall Mitchell's debut is an interesting work of an artist full of confidence and one of her best thanks in large parts to the earthy realistic lyrical approach, it's no masterpiece but well worth owning -- worthy of repeated listenings filled with Joni's hippie ideology that was so relevant at the time.

A:

I Had a King

Michael From Mountains

Night in the City

Marcie

Nathan La Franeer

Part Two:

Out of the City and Down to the Seaside

B:

Sisotowbell Lane

The Dawntreader

The Pirate of Penance

Song to a Seagull

CONDITION: The cover: is a thick gatefold in "EX"(excellent) stiff, solid and colorful all over ...has NO bends, no writing and NO split seams... final collection copy ....

The vinyl: is all glossy ...and clear "EX" (excellent) looks collectible, plays nice and enjoyable without surface problems ....and has clean TWO-TONE labels... one to own

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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