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happy birthday to court and spark (jan. 17th, 1974) ✨️
the walrus, jan. 16th 2024 / court and spark album cover, 1974 / colgate news, march 15th 1974 / the griffin, march 1st 1974 / daily princetonian, feb. 25th 1974 / daily illini, feb. 9th 1974 / joel bernstein, 1973 / brown daily herald, feb. 23rd 1974 / court and spark google results album collage / lyrics from "help me", from court and spark (1974) / sherry rayn barnett, 1973 (photo and caption) / comments under the youtube video for "court and spark" / lyrics to "down to you" from court and spark (1974)
#joni mitchell#court and spark#when i started this post i uhhhh did not intend to make a webweave lmao but here it is#feat. my favourite lyrics from the album!#on first listen two years ago i didn't quite get this album but now i love it#(all sources except for the walrus article are directly from joni's website - i want to link sources properly but i'm dead tired right now)#mine
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Joni Mitchell "Piano Suite: Down To You / Court And Spark / Car On A Hill (Demo)" Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975).
#Joni Mitchell#Piano Suite: Down To You / Court And Spark / Car On A Hill#Piano Suite#Down To You#Court and Spark#Car On A Hill#Demo#Archives Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)#Archives Vol. 3#2023#Court & Spark#Court & Spark (1974)#50th Anniversary#Youtube
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we love our lovin' / but not like we love our freedom
joni mitchell | help me
live at the new victoria theatre in 1974
#joni mitchell#help me#jonimitchelledit#jonimitchellgif#1974#70s#usermusic#dailymusic#dailymusicians#dailymusicqueens#blogmusicdaily#femaledaily#musicedit#dailywomen#court and spark#live#*mygifs
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alternative album art for:
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
(1974)
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free man in paris - joni mitchell, court and spark
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... " I'm in trouble 'cause you're a rambler and a gambler
And a sweet taIking ladies man " ...
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Album Review: Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
The six hours of music contained in Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) is the sound of Mitchell morphing from a folkie from the 1960s to a jazzer of the 1970s.
Comprising demos, studio outtakes, live recordings, alternate mixes and more, the sprawling set is one of those rare collections of ephemera that is eminently listenable straight through and is destined to remain so for decades to come.
Covering the years that produced For the Roses, Court & Spark and the Hissing of Summer Lawns, the box set presents Mitchell clowning with James Taylor in the studio on a medley of “Bony Moronie,” “Summertime Blues” and “You Never Can Tell;” singing “The Circle Game” on stage with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; laying down an early version of “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” backed by Neil Young and the Stray Gators; and promoting Court & Spark during a full gig March 3, 1974, backed by Tom Scott & the LA Express.
On stage, Mitchell is an alluring host, telling stories, introducing and explaining songs and laughing like someone who’s happy to be doing what she’s doing. Her between-song levity is a striking counterbalance to the heaviness of the songs themselves and showcases a side of Mitchell that only occasionally manifests in the music.
With 96 tracks in all, titles necessary repeat. But with an artist like Mitchell, that hardly matters. The well-chosen takes give listeners a fascinating sonic peek into the mind of a musical genius as she builds such songs as “Help Me,” “Dreamland,” “Raised on Robbery” and others from sketches into fully formed audio artworks. Meanwhile, the never-released-in-any-format “Like Veils Said Lorraine” is a long-lost companion to “Banquet.”
Getting through the set requires nearly a full-workday commitment. Before it’s all over, Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3 will steal months, perhaps years, from fans.
Grade card: Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) - A
11/28/23
#joni mitchell#joni mitchell archives vol. 3 the asylum years (1972-1975)#2023 albums#james taylor#crosby stills nash and young#tom scott and the la express#neil young and the stray gators#for the roses#court and spark#the hissing of summer lawns
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Joni Mitchell around the time of Court and Spark
photo by henry diltz
#henry diltz#joni mitchell#court and spark#blue#Joni Mitchell blue#the hissing lawns of summer#hejira#ladies of the canyon#Don Juan’s reckless daughter#both sides now
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Joni Mitchell’s Best Album Is Turning Fifty. It’s Not Blue
For Court and Spark, Joni the lonely, Joni the soloist, did something nobody expected her to do. She hired a band
Where Blue is stormy and snarling, Court and Spark is wild, sunny, and free. It’s about how funny and strange people are, how boxes were created to be smashed, how life is full of pleasures when you move beyond what plagued you as a naive kid. It’s as mercurial as the woman who made it, and an expression of her lifelong desire to not be pigeonholed. It’s brilliant and crazy and delightful, an album written by somebody who’s exchanged their youthful angst for the liberation of adulthood. Young assholes only think of themselves; well-adjusted adults try to understand others. With Court and Spark, Joni rejected navel gazing and embraced empathy.
Read more at thewalrus.ca.
Illustration by Natascha Hohmann (nataschahohmann.com)
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"Dylan, Mitchell Create New Moods"
David Heller for The Vidette, Illinois State University, January 31, 1974.
#Bob Dylan n Joni Mitchell#Bob Dylan#Joni Mitchell#Planet Waves#Court and Spark#50th Anniversary#Article#Album Review#David Heller#The Vidette
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