Joni Mitchell - At Club 47, Cambridge Ma. January 10th, 1968 (Remastered, Live On Broadcasting) '2025

Tracks list

	Tracklist:

1. Cactus Tree (Live) (05:00)
2. Night in the City (Live) (03:26)
3. Gift of the Magi (Live) (04:59)
4. I Had a King (Live) (04:22)
5. Morning Morgantown (Live) (03:33)
6. Ballerina Valerie (Live) (04:48)
7. Song to a Seagull (Live) (04:31)
8. Both Sides Now (Live) (04:40)
9. Conversation (Live) (05:21)
10. Come to the Sunshine (Live) (03:32)
11. Chelsea Morning (Live) (04:14)
12. The Pirate of Penance (Live) (02:55)
13. The Way It Is (Live) (07:46)
14. The Dawntreader (Live) (05:10)


 moreBorn Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada, on November
7, 1943, she was stricken with polio at the age of nine; while recovering in a
children's hospital, she began her performing career by singing to the other
patients. After teaching herself to play guitar with the aid of a Pete Seeger
instruction book, she went off to art college and became a fixture on the folk
music scene around Alberta. After relocating to Toronto, she married folksinger
Chuck Mitchell in 1965, and began performing under the name Joni Mitchell.

A year later, the couple moved to Detroit, Michigan, but they separated soon
after; Joni remained in the Motor City, however, and won significant press
acclaim for her burgeoning songwriting skills and smoky, distinctive vocals,
leading to a string of high-profile performances in New York City. There she
became a cause célèbre among the media and other performers. After she
signed to Reprise in 1967, David Crosby offered to produce her debut record, a
self-titled acoustic effort that appeared the following year. Her songs also
found great success with other singers: in 1968, Judy Collins scored a major hit
with the Mitchell-penned "Both Sides Now," while Fairport Convention covered
"Eastern Rain" and Tom Rush recorded "The Circle Game."

Thanks to all of the outside exposure, Mitchell began to earn a strong cult
following; her 1969 sophomore effort, Clouds, reached the Top 40, while 1970's
Ladies of the Canyon sold even better on the strength of the single "Big Yellow
Taxi." It also included her anthemic composition "Woodstock," a major hit for
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Still, the commercial and critical approval
awarded her landmark 1971 record Blue was unprecedented: a luminous, starkly
confessional set written primarily during a European vacation, the album firmly
established Mitchell as one of pop music's most remarkable and insightful
talents.

Predictably, she turned away from Blue's incandescent folk with 1972's For the
Roses, the first of the many major stylistic turns she would take over the
course of her daring career. Backed by rock-jazz performer Tom Scott, Mitchell's
music began moving into more pop-oriented territory, a change typified by the
single "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)," her first significant hit. The follow-up,
1974's classic Court and Spark, was her most commercially successful outing; a
sparkling, jazz-accented set, it reached the number two spot on the U.S. album
charts and launched three hit singles -- "Help Me," "Free Man in Paris," and
"Raised on Robbery."

After the 1974 live collection Miles of Aisles, Mitchell emerged in 1975 with
The Hissing of Summer Lawns, a bold, almost avant-garde record that housed her
increasingly complex songs in experimental, jazz-inspired settings. "The Jungle
Line" introduced the rhythms of African Burundi drums, placing her far ahead of
the pop world's mid-'80s fascination with world music. 1976's Hejira, recorded
with Weather Report bassist Jaco Pastorius, smoothed out the music's more
difficult edges while employing minimalist techniques. Mitchell later performed
the album's first single, "Coyote," at the Band's Last Waltz concert that
Thanksgiving.

Her next effort, 1977's two-record set Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, was another
ambitious move, a collection of long, largely improvisational pieces recorded
with jazz players Larry Carlton and Wayne Shorter, Chaka Khan, and a battery of
Latin percussionists. Shortly after the record's release, Mitchell was contacted
by the legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus, who invited her to work with him
on a musical interpretation of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Mingus, who was
suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, sketched out a series of melodies to which
Mitchell added lyrics; however, Mingus died on January 5, 1979, before the
record was completed. After Mitchell finished their collaboration on her own,
she recorded the songs under the title Mingus, which was released the summer
after the jazz titan's passing.

Following her second live collection, 1980's Shadows and Light, Mitchell
returned to pop territory for 1982's Wild Things Run Fast. The first single, a
cover of the Elvis Presley hit "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care," became
her first chart single in eight years. Shortly after the album's release, she
married bassist/sound engineer Larry Klein, who became a frequent collaborator
on much of her subsequent material, including 1985's synth-driven Dog Eat Dog,
co-produced by Thomas Dolby. Mitchell's move into electronics continued with
1988's Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, featuring guests Peter Gabriel, Willie
Nelson, Tom Petty, and Billy Idol.

Mitchell returned to her roots with 1991's Night Ride Home, a spare,
stripped-down collection spotlighting little more than her voice and acoustic
guitar. Prior to recording 1994's Turbulent Indigo, she and Klein separated,
although he still co-produced the record, which was her most acclaimed work in
years. In 1996, she compiled a pair of anthologies, Hits and Misses, which
collected Mitchell's chart successes as well as underappreciated favorites. A
new studio album, Taming the Tiger, followed in 1998. Both Sides Now, a
collection of standards, followed in early 2000.

Two years later, she resurfaced with the double-disc release Travelogue. She
announced in October 2002 that this would be her last album ever, as she'd grown
tired of the music industry and intended to retire. She did take a break from
recording for a few years, but in 2006 she began working on a set of songs that
became the 2007 album Shine. Mitchell stepped away from music again in 2009 to
focus on health issues.

In 2014, Mitchell helped compile her first box-set anthology, Love Has Many
Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced, which featured remastered
versions of 53 songs from her back catalog, all dealing with some aspect of love
and relationships. A series of releases chronologically charting her evolution
with previously unreleased recordings kicked off in October 2020 with Joni
Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967). The expansive collection
included dozens of songs from home demos, live shows, and radio broadcasts that
hadn't been publicly shared up until that point. Exactly a year later, the
archival series continued with Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 2: The Reprise Years
(1968–1971). This volume of the series focused on the years surrounding
Mitchell's first four solo albums for the Reprise label, again including a
wealth of unreleased home demos and live material, along with studio outtakes
from sessions for classic albums like 1969's Clouds and 1971's incomparable
Blue. An unannounced show at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival marked Mitchell's
first live appearance in nine years, and the hit-heavy set was released a year
later as 2023's Joni Mitchell at Newport. Joining her for the performance were
backing vocalists Wynonna Judd, Brandi Carlile, Shooter Jennings, and others,
along with notable backing musicians like Blake Mills and Marcus Mumford. The
performance gave Mitchell the bug, and subsequent live shows (dubbed "Joni Jams"
from that point forward) followed. © Jason Ankeny



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