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Experiencing Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ in the age of streaming

Maggie Clark | Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Last week, folk singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell said “[she stands] with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities” in her decision to remove her music from Spotify. This decision came after a particularly controversial episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” was released on Spotify. In an open letter published on Mitchell’s website, various medical

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Florist pursues nostalgic impressionism on ‘If Blue Could Be Happiness’

Mike Donovan | Wednesday, October 11, 2017

In his poem “Digging,” Irish poet Seamus Heaney condenses generations of wonderment under his imagistic microscope. From a humble wound in the soil — “Under my window, a clean rasping sound / When the spade sinks into gravelly ground” — he resuscitates family history — “My grandfather cut more turf in a day / Than