Carey (song)

"Carey"
Single by Joni Mitchell
from the album Blue
B-side"This Flight Tonight"
Released1971
Recorded1971
GenreFolk rock, soft rock[1]
Length3:00
LabelReprise
Songwriter(s)Joni Mitchell
Producer(s)Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell singles chronology
"Big Yellow Taxi"
(1970)
"Carey"
(1971)
"California"
(1971)
Official Audio
"Carey" on YouTube

"Carey" is a song from the 1971 Joni Mitchell album Blue. It was inspired by her time spent with Cary Raditz, living with a cave-dwelling hippie community at Matala, on the Greek island of Crete.

  1. ^ Oregonian/OregonLive, David Greenwald | The (April 3, 2014). "The top 10 '70s soft-rock seduction ballads (playlist)". OregonLive.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)