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Mitchell spent most of 1973 in the recording studio creating Court and Spark. Mitchell and engineer Henry Lewy called in a number of top L.A. musicians to perform on the album including members of the Crusaders, Tom Scott's L.A. Express, cameos from Robbie Robertson, David Crosby and Graham Nash and even a twist of comedy from Cheech & Chong.
- Joni Mitchell
- January 17, 1974
- 1973
Mar 22, 2024 · Like the rest of her West Coast singer-songwriter mates (from Graham Nash through to Jackson Browne) she bases her songs around herself, her worries and experiences. What sets her work aside from ...
The year 1973 was relatively quiet for Joni Mitchell, at least as far as the public eye was concerned. She only performed a few times, once at a benefit concert, then a few shows with Neil Young; indeed, much of 1973 would be spent in the studio, finding the right musicians and the right metier for the songs that would make up her next album, 1974's Court And Spark.
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CULTURAL COMMENTARY Follow. Joni Mitchell’s ‘Court and Spark’ Turns 50. The singer-songwriter explored a new jazz sound on her 1974 album. about lost love and romantic confusion. By. Marc Myers Jan. 27, 2024 700 am ET Joni Mitchell circa 1974 PHOTO: REDFERNS. Joni Mitchell was ready. for a change in 1973.
Jan 18, 2024 · Joni Mitchell Court and Spark, Asylum Records 1974. Not that there weren’t non-jazzers on the album: The Band’s Robbie Robertson unleashes a fiery guitar solo on the first single, “Raised on Robbery,” and David Crosby and Graham Nash contribute some harmony vocals. The result was Mitchell’s most sophisticated, sonically lush, and ...
Jan 17, 2024 · The candour had come at a cost. She felt exposed writing the album, barely able to see anyone while recording it. Earlier in 1971, February’s Rolling Stone dubbed her "old lady of the year", with a diagram of past lovers, the misogyny drawing lines to James Taylor, Graham Nash and David Crosby. She fled LA for British Columbia’ s coast, to ...
Jan 17, 2024 · ‘Court And Spark’ Track-By-Track: A Guide To Every Song On The Album Court And Spark. This intimate, piano-led beginning to Court And Spark almost harks back to a world Mitchell was about to leave behind for good: the prairie lily on the cover of her second album, Clouds; the ladies of the canyon, the circle games. Throughout the song Court ...
