{"id":30292,"date":"2026-10-06T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=30292"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:50:17","slug":"30292-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/30292-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7acab03d379ccacef42a2a433a34fce6p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7acab03d379ccacef42a2a433a34fce6p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"707\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7acab03d379ccacef42a2a433a34fce6p.jpg 530w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7acab03d379ccacef42a2a433a34fce6p-247x330.jpg 247w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7acab03d379ccacef42a2a433a34fce6p-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 85vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANOTHER AUDIOPHILE VINYL REVIEW &#8211; JONI MITCHELL&#8217;S <em>BLUE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joni Mitchell has been a favorite musical artist of mine for most of my life. It was an honor to recently write a music review of a brand new LP reissue of Mitchell&#8217;s legendary 1971 album <em>Blue<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The assignment for <em>Tracking Angle<\/em> was to compare the new vinyl from Warner Brothers\/Rhino Hi Fidelity to original pressings and other well-regarded subsequent remasterings.  Fortunately, I had the creative freedom to include the back story on how this archetype of confessional singer\/songwriters was made. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trackingangle.com\/music\/blue\">Tracking Angle Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Joel Bernstein circa 1970)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER AUDIOPHILE VINYL REVIEW &#8211; JONI MITCHELL&#8217;S BLUE Joni Mitchell has been a favorite musical artist of mine for most of my life. It was an honor to recently write a music review of a brand new LP reissue of Mitchell&#8217;s legendary 1971 album Blue. The assignment for Tracking Angle was to compare the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/30292-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30292"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30309,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions\/30309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}