Joni Mitchell
Dog Eat Dog
Play Dog Eat Dog
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AMG Review of Dog Eat Dog
William Ruhlmann
All Music GuideJoni Mitchell here turned to guests like Michael McDonald, Thomas Dolby, Don Henley, James Taylor, and Wayne Shorter, continuing to straddle the worlds of California folk/pop and jazz fusion. Musically, it worked, although as a lyricist, Mitchell again took off after abstractions (one song railed against "The three great stimulants of the exhausted ones/Artifice, brutality and innocence"), such that, even when you could figure out what she was talking about, you didn't care.
 "Dog Eat Dog")
