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The Mail's music critic ADRIAN THRILLS rounds up this year's best... Joni Mitchell has always bristled at the notion that she is a folk singer. Given that her music has encompassed pop, jazz and world beats — as well as the acoustic songs with which she made her name — that's no surprise. But listening to a new box set that charts her formative years, that folk tag is hard to escape, and she knows it. 'I didn't think folk was a good description of what I was,' she says in the liner notes. 'And then I listened, and it was beautiful. I had this realisation . . . I was a folk singer!'