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- Record Label: Elektra
- Release Date: Oct 4, 2024
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- Summary: The fourth box set of unreleased material from Joni Mitchell includes demos, studio sessions, alternate versions, as well as live tracks from her 1979 tour and when she was part of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975-76.
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- Record Label: Elektra
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Oct 4, 2024No-one’s going to show you everything, as she sings on Hejira, but this collection shows a woman out to see as much as she can.
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Oct 4, 2024What we have here is a six-CD deep dive of the ephemera around those albums — and what a fascinating collection of ephemera it is. .... Joni Mitchell has never been one to wait for people to catch up with her. On the basis of this era, a lot of them still haven’t.
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UncutOct 4, 2024This companion volume of archives gives us an opportunity to hear the roads not taken, the hesitations, to feel the jeopardy at each artistic crossroads and experience the risk and wonder of the journey anew. Across seven hours, six discs and 98 tracks, this is an astonishing bounty. [Nov 2024, p.44]
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Nov 7, 2024Turning well beyond the finished albums, the set reveals the album material as it was coming to life and follows it later to the stage, providing a bounty of tracks too rich to have been pinched off as handfuls of bonus inclusions to the records.
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Oct 4, 2024These six discs certainly illuminate the studio albums they appear on, but their evolutionary processes in studio and on-stage make this set an essential companion to the previous volume.
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Oct 4, 2024There are several gems and rarities on here, like the gorgeous “embryonic” version of “Paprika Plains,” a 12-minute piano instrumental producer Henry Lewy secretly recorded and labeled “Save Magic.”