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Ladies of the Canyon
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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: MITCHELL,JONI
EAN: 0075992745024
Item Dimensions: 22
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
MPN: 6376
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
Disc 1:- Morning Morgantown
- For Free
- Conversation
- Ladies of the Canyon
- Willy
- Arrangement
- Rainy Night House
- Priest
- Blue Boy
- Big Yellow Taxi
- Woodstock
- Circle Game
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Media Type: CD
Artist: MITCHELL,JONI
Title: LADIES OF THE CANYON
Street Release Date: 11/17/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Joni Mitchell's third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there's the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in "Big Yellow Taxi," and the formal metaphor of her older songs ("The Circle Game," already oft-covered by the time of this recording) yields to the more impressionistic images of the new ones ("Woodstock"). The dark lyricism of her earliest ballads is intact (on "For Free" and "Rainy Night House"), yet there's a prevailing idealism here that sounds poignant alongside the warier, more mature songs to come on Blue and Court And Spark. --Sam Sutherland
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Competent enough to highlight several elements that would forever make her unique, this still reads like a luke-warm up to the quantum artistic shift that became the follow through.
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This is Joni Mitchell at her very best in song lyrics and musical talent. Every song is a keeper on this album. Excellant recording levels also!
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If you're going shopping for jewels today, then buy this one. I defy anyone to not love it completely. The vocals are perfect and moving to the very last note. The instrumentation is exquisitely minimal and ethereal. The lyrics at once endearingly personal and scripturally profound. The remastering is superb. This has to be one of the finest albums of the golden era. Does any song capture so perfectly the zeitgeist of the time as this version of 'Woodstock'?
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I love Joni's early stuff. Her voice is brilliant and the clean, minimalist instruments shine through the mix. Big Yellow Taxi is the hit of these tracks, but the haunting Woodstock and upbeat Conversation are my favorites. A great album produced by a great artist.
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This was Jon's third album and followed on from Clouds, the album that featured Joni's own versions of Both sides now and Chelsea morning. Expectations for this album were probably quite high in anticipation of its release. Such expectations were fully justified as Joni moved away from her folk roots just a little by use of a slightly fuller musical backing, especially the addition of a piano. I love the sparse backing that Joni used on Song to a seagull and Clouds, but I'm in a minority in liking ... Read More
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