“Amelia” by Joni Mitchell

"Amelia" drifts through Hejira, Joni Mitchell's eighth studio album, released on Asylum in 1976 and written while she was on the move through late 1975 and early 1976. The record is her road diary, sprawling and word-heavy, and she surrounded herself with jazz players to carry it.

Here Mitchell and Larry Carlton share the guitars, Victor Feldman's vibraphone hangs in the air like heat off the highway, and Mitchell's own voice sits out front. She produced it herself and mixed it with Henry Lewy, who also recorded it. Hejira sold less than the albums before it, but it has since come to be seen as one of the high points of her career.

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