This album above all other Mitchell's albums has connected with most people--which is slightly surprising, since it ranks among the most intimate works in pop music....
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Long before Frank Sinatra made his Duets album, Joni Mitchell cast a variety of name singers in prominent roles for the songs on Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm. Peter Gabriel...
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Zooming up the charts and reaching the No. 2 slot, this was Joni Mitchell's finest commercial hour--helped greatly by the commercial success of "Help Me" as well as her...
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Joni Mitchell reached her commercial high point with Court and Spark, a remarkably deft fusion of folk, pop, and jazz which stands as her best-selling work to date. While as...
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Mitchell's quest for musical adventurousness continued full bore here, with both fascinating sound collages and superb contributions by Thomas Dolby making the major impact....
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Joni Mitchell here turned to guests like Michael McDonald, Thomas Dolby, Don Henley, James Taylor, and Wayne Shorter, continuing to straddle the worlds of California...
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A big chunk of the pop audience Joni Mitchell had earned with Court and Spark in 1974 deserted her in 1975 and 1976 when the follow-ups, The Hissing of Summer Lawns and...
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It's obvious where Mitchell was heading by the time she released this album: "Blonde In The Bleachers" and "You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio" were just a small step removed...
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On For the Roses, Joni Mitchell began to explore jazz and other influences in earnest. As one might expect from a transitional album, there is a lot of stylistic ground...
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Joni Mitchell had a string of fantastic releases in the early '70s, and For the Roses/Court & Spark collects two of them onto a double-LP set or single cassette. These are...
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A musically superb collection, featuring a stellar lineup of backing musicians--including Jaco Pastorius and Wayne Shorter. A considerable step forward from the albums that...
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Joni Mitchell's Hejira is the last in an astonishingly long run of top-notch studio albums dating back to her debut. Some vestiges of her old style remain here; "Song for...
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This wonderfully varied release shows a number of new tendencies in Joni Mitchell's work, some of which would come to fuller fruition on subsequent albums. "The...
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Months before the death of jazz legend Charles Mingus, he and Mitchell collaborated; this, the result of that collaboration, is too sketchy and vague to completely work...
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In the months prior to the passing of legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell had been personally summoned by the bop pioneer to collaborate on a musical...
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Cutting back on the guest musicians of her previous effort and paring down to a basic small group of musicians helps add immediacy to Night Ride Home. While this release...
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Mitchell's jazz-flavored direction of the late '70s resulted in this fabulous-sounding live album, which features much of her post-Court And Spark material. Played by a...
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Shadows and Light is Joni Mitchell's second live album, and it serves as a good retrospective of her more jazzy period from 1975-1979. As expected, she assembles a group of...
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Her first solo album contains "Michael From The Mountains," a song already familiar to fans of Judy Collins, who'd already covered it. Production by David...
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Joni Mitchell's debut release is a concept album. Side one, subtitled "I Came to the City," generally exhibits songs about urban subjects that are often dour or repressed in...
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A surprisingly arty move, particularly after Court And Spark, this featured a wealth of different music styles and was, word has it, a favorite album of Prince's. Still...
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Joni Mitchell evolved from the smooth jazz-pop of Court and Spark to the radical Hissing of Summer Lawns, an adventurous work that remains among her most difficult records....
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On her first new studio album of original material in five years and her debut for Geffen Records, Joni Mitchell achieved more of a balance between her pop abilities and her...
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Like most live albums, this two-record set was a profit-taking release on which the artist re-presented many of her old songs for a new acceptance now that she had a larger...
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Joni Mitchell returned to the relatively spare style of albums like Hejira and her early folk collections on Turbulent Indigo, emphasizing her acoustic guitar strumming and...
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Quite a gal, our Joni--one who can kick off a number with the declaration, "Kiss my ass, I said," and begin another with the time-honored cliche "It was a...
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This latest disc from Joni Mitchell harkens back to the days when she heard the hissing of summer lawns and the jazzier essays of her Hejira days. The only difference...
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She's known for her incredible songwriting. Mitchell mined personal details
and unorthodox musical structures all the way to eventual critical neglect,
mass audience...
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Ex-husband Larry Klein, who serves as co-producer and musical director, explains in his liner notes that Joni Mitchell intended to tell the story of a "modern" romantic...
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Joni Mitchell's been in a reflective mood lately. After 2000's Both Sides Now, where she sang the blues and recast two songs from her own catalog, Joni's now reinterpreting...
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According to Joni Mitchell, Travelogue is her final recorded work, and if that is so, it's a detailed exploration of moments in a career that is as dazzling as it is...
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Dreamland is the second volume in Joni Mitchell's self-compiled series of "theme" retrospectives. The first, issued on the Geffen label, was entitled The Beginning of...
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For starters, hunters should not get their hopes up about any unreleased material on this box set -- there are exactly three cuts, two are unfinished demo versions of songs...
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The Beginning of Survival is a whopping 16-track collection from Joni Mitchell's Geffen period, recorded between 1985-1998, and carefully chosen by the artist as...
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Clouds is a stark stunner, a great leap forward for Joni Mitchell. Vocals here are more forthright and assured than on her debut and exhibit a remarkable level of subtle...
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Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessential confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, Joni Mitchell's songs are raw nerves, tales of love and...
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The third in Joni Mitchell's ongoing series of thematic compilations drawn from her stellar back catalog, Songs of a Prairie Girl is described by Mitchell in her liner notes...
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