Tom Scott - woodwinds and reeds Max Bennett - bass John Guerin - drums and percussion Robben Ford - electric guitar Larry Nash - piano Joni Mitchell accompanies herself on piano, guitar, and dulcimer Coordination and Sound Engineering – Henry Lewy Assisted by Ken Caillat and the Wally Heider R...
17, 1974. The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, a peak only matched by her live album Miles of Aisles released the same year. Court and Spark is not only a commercial highpoint for Mitchell but an artistic one as well. It is the centerpiece of her discography and a blend ...
Live Albums Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) 2023 Shadows and Light (Live) Shadows and Light (Live) 1980 Miles of Aisles (Live) [2022 Remaster] Miles of Aisles (Live) [2022 Remaster] 1974 Compilations Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum ...
Girls Like Us. “The way I felt about her….it scared me…” Joni’s song, “Tin Angel,” using the name of a New York restaurant, is in part about Roy. Roy would later say that Joni Mitchell’s music “was more original than Dylan’s.”...
I'm a Radio' with Neil Young & the Stray Gators, a bevy of Court and Spark tracks from her 1974 tour with Scott & the L.A. Express (the double-live Miles of Aisles only included a version of 'People's Parties') and an impromptu medley of early rock-and-roll numbers with James ...
The box set - which also includes the exhilarating live album Miles of Aisles and the impressionistic The Hissing of Summer Lawns - covers a period of Mitchell's career that already resists linear narrativizing. It was a time when she seemed to be pushing her music closer to an ideal that...
A delightful live album, "Miles of Aisles," which also served as a "Best of" collection, helped to make up for the void last year. On "Hejira," Joni uses the more complex songwriting style she first employed on "Hissing of Summer Lawns," but this time it works - magnificently. ...
Court and Spark (1974) and the live Miles of Aisles (1974) both employed the accompaniment of the LA Express, Tom Scott’s venerable genre-hopping outfit. The LA Express, whose own sound was none-too-easily categorized, served as a perfect fit for Mitchell as she began to explore more ...
The four albums she recorded during those years, For the Roses (1972), Court and Spark (1974), Miles of Aisles (1974), and The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975), are considered among the best of her career. Critics consider each of them masterpieces in their own right. Rhino has recently...
question of the genre of her music to rest. They mounted a well-received fifty-city national tour, and the show was recorded for a live album, Miles of Aisles. She was now being called "Rock and Roll's Leading Lady" and a "Superstar."54 ...