The Vinyl Countdown # 47

Joni Mitchell, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977)

Joni Mitchell does blackface on this album – or at least on the album cover. It’s not “musical blackface” at all, but it is musical genius – some of her most difficult, challenging and rewarding music is here. When I first heard it I really only loved a quarter of it. A sprawling double album. But as tim…