Description
gatefold sleeve / original artwork / from analogue mast
Artist
Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
Born November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada.
Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame and Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (Performer) in 1997.
Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto. In the mid-1960s she left for New York City and its folk music scene, recording her debut album in 1968 and achieving fame first as a songwriter ("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "Woodstock") and then as a singer in her own right. Blue, her starkly personal 1971 album, was voted #30 in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list of 2003. Mitchell also had pop hits such as "Big Yellow Taxi", "Free Man in Paris", and "Help Me", the last two from 1974's best-selling Court and Spark. In 1965, she married Chuck Mitchell (2) until they divorced in 1968.
Mitchell's distinctive harmonic guitar style, and piano arrangements all grew more complex through the 1970s as she was deeply influenced by jazz, melding it with pop, folk and rock on experimental albums like 1976's Hejira. She worked closely with jazz greats including Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, and on a 1979 record released after his death, Charles Mingus. From the 1980s on, Mitchell reduced her recording and touring schedule but turned again toward pop, making greater use of synthesizers and direct political protest in her lyrics, which often tackled social and environmental themes alongside romantic and emotional ones.
Mitchell is also a visual artist. She created the artwork for each of her albums, and in 2000 described herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance." Mitchell stopped recording over the last several years, focusing more attention on painting, but in 2007 she released Shine, her first album of new songs in nine years.
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Tracks
A1
Court And Spark
02:46
A2
Help Me
03:22
A3
Free Man In Paris
03:02
A4
People's Parties
02:20
A5
The Same Situation
03:05
B1
Car On A Hill
02:58
B2
Down To You
05:36
B3
Just Like This Train
04:23
B4
Raised On Robbery
03:05
B5
Trouble Child
03:57
B6
Twisted
02:18
Releases
Formats
Cassette, Vinyl, 8-Track Cartridge, CD, File
Labels
Rhino Records , Elektra, Classic Records, Elektra Entertainment, DCC Compact Classics, Asylum Records, Nautilus Recordings, Continental , Rhino Vinyl
Countries
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe, UK & Europe, UK, Europe & US
years
1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
