“Song for Sharon” by Joni Mitchell

"Song for Sharon" comes from Hejira, the eighth album Joni Mitchell put out on Asylum in 1976, a record whose songs were written while she was constantly on the move in late 1975 and early 1976, and which reads like a road diary kept by somebody who can't stop thinking. Mitchell wrote and produced it herself, sings it and plays guitar, with Max Bennett on bass and John Guerin, one of the album's key jazz hands, on drums. Henry Lewy recorded it, with Steve Katz assisting, and mixed it alongside Mitchell.

Hejira didn't sell like the records that came before it, but the critics were mostly kind, and over the years it has come to be counted among the peaks of her career.

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