Shine

Her new cd features 10 great new songs that resonate on the level of some of her all-time classic work, with much of the material inspired by Joni's passion to save the environment. Joni mitchell is generally considered to be the single most important female singer-songwriter of the 20th Century. Her lyrics on the subject are truly inspiring.

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Taming the Tiger

Joni mitchell- Taming The Tiger. Wayne Shorter guests. A return to the sounds of "Hejira" & "Hissing Of Summer Lawns". Excellent, jazzy 1998 album.


Turbulent Indigo

Joni mitchell- Turbulent Indigo. Whereas her rotten taste in synthesizers lent an automatically dated sound to 1988's Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm and 1998's Taming the Tiger, here the gadgetry is unobtrusive and enhances the power of Mitchell's voice and guitar playing. It also helps that this batch of songs is particularly evocative and well written, " on which she wonders how to stop "love from slipping away, " to the wonderful vignette "Yvette in English, ranging from the graceful "How Do You Stop, " which describes a chance encounter between Picasso and a reluctant model.

Jason anderson Joni mitchell- Taming The Tiger. The magdalene laundries" describes the fate of girls left pregnant and abandoned in convent laundry rooms, "Not to Blame" details "the miseries made of love" for all the world's battered wives, and the title of "Sex Kills" is entirely self-explanatory. The sire of sorrow job's sad song, " the album's finale, is nothing less than the cries of the much-put-upon Job against a heartless God who makes "everything I dread and everything I fear come true.

The plaintive beauty of the music helps sweeten the potential sourness of Mitchell's lyrics. Coproduced by mitchell and her longtime collaborator and former husband Larry Klein, Turbulent Indigo is perhaps the only one of her '80s and '90s discs on which she isn't unduly hampered by studio technology. Paintings and painters are obviously a major theme on the disc--the cover is Mitchell's portrait of herself in the guise of Van Gogh--but more striking is her pessimistic view of humanity.

. The 1996 grammy winner for best pop album, joni Mitchell's Turbulent Indigo is the singer's most distinctive and rewarding work since Wild Things Run Fast in 1982.


Wild Things Run Fast

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Both Sides Now

Joni mitchell- Turbulent Indigo. Joni mitchell- Both Sides Now. Joni mitchell- Wild Things Run Fast. Both sides now, joni mitchell, from contemporary musical great, features her sultry, jazzy, dramatic renditions of love songs from the 1920s to the 1970s. Joni mitchell- Taming The Tiger.


Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm

Joni mitchell- Turbulent Indigo. Joni mitchell- Wild Things Run Fast. Unfairly overlooked. 1988 gem featuring tom petty, peter Gabriel, Wendy & Lisa, Don Henley & Willie Nelson. Joni mitchell- Taming The Tiger. Joni mitchell- Both Sides Now.


Night Ride Home

Joni mitchell- Taming The Tiger. Joni mitchell- Both Sides Now. Joni mitchell- Night Ride Home. Joni mitchell- Wild Things Run Fast. Stripped back and more intimate album from 1991. Joni mitchell- Turbulent Indigo. Another overlooked gem well worth re-discovering.


Dog Eat Dog

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Joni mitchell- Both Sides Now.


Travelogue

Earlier this year, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Now joni mitchell both revisits the past and looks to the future with Travelogue, a 2-CD set featuring new recordings of songs from throughout her illustrious career, this time in the orchestrated style that made Both Sides Now such a success.

. Joni mitchell- Both Sides Now. Joni mitchell- Night Ride Home. Her previous album, 2002's both sides Now, was nominated for three Grammys, winning for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Joni mitchell- Taming The Tiger. Joni mitchell- Turbulent Indigo. Joni mitchell- Travelogue. Shrink-wrapped. Produer larry klein explains, "our goal in recording this collection of Joni's songs in an orchestral context was not to create a 'Greatest Hits with Orchestra' type of record.

The songs which we selected, have acquired a new power, a broad cross-section of Joni's work from her prescient early songs all the way through recent writing, timeliness and poignancy in her singing them in the voice of a woman who has lived a lot of life. For joni mitchell, the road continues with Travelogue.

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Mingus

Joni mitchell- Night Ride Home. 1979 challenging but rewarding Jazz influenced tribute to the master Charles Mingus. Joni mitchell- Taming The Tiger. Joni mitchell- Wild Things Run Fast. Joni mitchell- Mingus. Joni mitchell- Turbulent Indigo. Joni mitchell- Both Sides Now. Shrink-wrapped. Joni mitchell- Travelogue.


Miles Of Aisles

Shrink-wrapped. Joni mitchell- Turbulent Indigo. Joni mitchell- Mingus. Joni mitchell & the LA Express- Miles Of Aisles. Joni mitchell- Travelogue. Joni mitchell- Night Ride Home. Joni mitchell- Both Sides Now. Joni mitchell- Wild Things Run Fast. Digitally remastered live 1974 double lp on 1 CD with the LA Express features a funkin' groovin' 'Woodstock' Joni mitchell- Taming The Tiger.

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