This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Hippie folkster, pop tunesemith, jazzbo diva — Joni Mitchell has been all of these at one time or another during her decades-long career.
Here, she adds another category to her resume: Torch singer. Leading the 71-piece London Symphony Orchestra, Mitchell makes little like Lady Day on Both Sides Now, pouring her heart, body and soul — to say nothing of her enduringly strong voice — into a dozen classic romantic tracks that chronicle the arc of a relationship, from the flirtatious You’re My Thrill through the disenchanted You’ve Changed and on to Stormy Weather and the inevitable I Wish I Were in Love Again. The closer, of course, is Joni’s own title track, delivered here with a layer of dark, Dietrich-style beauty and wistful insight it never had before. The perfect disc for the dark nights and rainy days of the soul.
