Joni Mitchell

>>74812048
Excellent voice
Great songwriting
Beautiful instrumentation (especially on Summer Lawns)

Those are the main reasons off the top of my head.

She came from a time when woman weren't all shallow whores writing generic pop songs for teenagers.

>>74812097
>woman weren't all shallow whores

Joni Mitchell had a child out of wedlock and gave her up for adoption.

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I never really got into her before I heard this absolute masterpiece. This + Hissing, two of the best albums of the 70s for sure.

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>one of the weakest voices in music, directionless vocal scales (muh emotive singer)
the talentless version of Nick Drake with all of the fame that he should have gotten in his lifetime

>>74812655
She has literally nothing in common with Nick Drake other than being vaguely folk based. She's an objectively good singer with a shitton of vocal control and range. You clearly have no clue what you're talking about.