March 16, 1999

Posted March 16, 1999

DCC Compact Classics has released another in their series of stellar-sounding Gold Discs with Joni Mitchell's 1971 masterpiece, Blue.

This release is considered by a majority of critics as Joni's first "classic" album, and along with Carole King's Tapestry, James Taylor's Sweet Baby James and a few others, Blue is counted as one of the first great albums in what became known as the "singer-songwriter" movement.

Blue is also Joni's biggest catalog seller, still moving about 40,000 copies a year in the U.S. (Joni's 1974 album, Court And Spark, her biggest-selling album ever, also still sells over 35,000 copies each year). And this is just in the U.S. marketplace. If we include around the world sales, these numbers would be multiplied by one and a half.