Will you take me as I am - Michelle Mercer

Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half-century
and her landmark 1971 album
Blue
is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album
inspired by the way it clarified their own difficult emotions. Critics and musicians admire the idiosyncratic virtuosity of its compositions. Will You Take Me as I Am
the first book about Mitchell to include original interviews with her
looks at Blue to explore the development of an extraordinary artist
the history of songwriting
and much more.In extensive conversations with Mitchell
Michelle Mercer heard firsthand about Mitchell's internal and external journeys as she composed the largely autobiographical albums of what Mercer calls her Blue Period
which lasted through the mid-1970s. Incorporating biography
memoir
reportage
criticism
and interviews into an illuminating narrative
Mercer moves beyond the
making of an album
genre to arrive at a new form of music writing.