“For Free” by Joni Mitchell

"For Free" sits on Ladies of the Canyon, Joni Mitchell's third album, released on Reprise in 1970 and named after Laurel Canyon, the Los Angeles enclave that had been a hub of '60s pop culture and where she lived while she wrote the record. Her house on Lookout Mountain Avenue was the very one Graham Nash sang about in "Our House".

Mitchell wrote the words and music alone and plays piano as well as singing, with Teressa Adams on cello and Paul Horn on clarinet. It keeps company on the album with some of her most celebrated songs, "Big Yellow Taxi", "Woodstock" and "The Circle Game".

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