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Note 175.10                       Joni Mitchell                         10 of 10
HELIX::CLARK                                         51 lines  31-JAN-1997 15:36
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  For any Joni Mitchell fans out there, here's the cut lineup for a Joni
  Mitchell [commuting tape] compilation I just finished.  I think it's a
  great pair of tapes, myself.  These cuts together tell a worthwhile story
  -- makes me wish someone would undertake a commercial boxed anthology.
  
  I started with a list of the cuts Joni Mitchell herself chose to reprise
  in live or hits releases -- "Miles of Aisles", "Shadows & Light" (LP/tape
  version), "Hits", and "Misses".  Then I added a few (marked with + below).

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+I Had a King, +Night in the City, Cactus Tree [Joni Mitchell]

Chelsea Morning, +The Gallery, Both Sides Now [Clouds]

For Free, The Arrangement, Rainy Night House, Big Yellow Taxi (early fade),
Circle Game [Ladies of the Canyon]

All I Want, Carey, Blue, California, River, Case of You,
Last Time I Saw Richard [Blue]

Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire, For the Roses, +See You Sometime,
Woman of Heart & Mind, You Turn Me On I'm a Radio [For the Roses]

                        -- tape switch --

Help Me, Free Man in Paris, People's Parties, Raised on Robbery,
+Trouble Child [Court & Spark]

Harry's House/Centerpiece [Hissing of Summer Lawns]
In France They Kiss on Main Street, Edith & the Kingpin, Shadows & Light
[live versions]

Hejira, Coyote, Black Crow, Amelia, Furry Sings the Blues [Hejira]
                
Dreamland [Don Juan's Reckless Daughter]
                
Wolf That Lives in Lindsey [Mingus]
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Dry Cleaner from Des Moines, God Must Be a Boogie Man
[live versions]

Woodstock [live version]

Urge for Going [B-side]
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  Initially I stopped at 1976, but expanded through 1980 after hearing the
  "Shadows & Light" live album, a fine live set (maybe better even than
  "Miles of Aisles") which opened my ears to songs on the "Hissing of Summer
  Lawns" and "Mingus" albums.

  I may well do a 3rd tape that would bring it up to the present...  - Jay

    Every thime these a mention ogf Joni Mitchell I just can't help but
    write.  It's amazing that after SOOO many years and so many listen's I
    still enjoy almost every CD as much now as I did then.  This includes
    her new stuff as well.  
    
    She is one truly great artist, her work stands up to the test of time
    (at least to my ears).
    
    				Bart 

>    She is one truly great artist, her work stands up to the test of time
>     (at least to my ears).

  I agree (I guess that's obvious).
  
  I think one of her defining moments was when she followed "Court & Spark",
  probably her commercial peak (so far), with "Hissing of Summer Lawns".
  
  (Similar to when Neil Young followed "Harvest" with "Time Fades Away"...
  A definite turning away from stardom, feelings of revulsion, probably fear
  of losing control...)
  
  I actually tend to prefer some of her more commercially oriented releases
  -- "Hejira" over "Mingus", for example -- but the fact that she retreats
  from the "star making machinery" for periods of time makes all the
  difference, IMO.
  
  I appreciate her even more now that "Shadows & Light" showed me that her
  jazz ditherings could work as live, group-oriented, musical art &
  entertainment.  Maybe she learned more from Charles Mingus than it seemed
  at first -- Mingus was at least as talented at small-group leading
  (approaching the level of a Miles Davis or Art Blakey) as he was at bass
  playing and composing.   - Jay