Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
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Artist: Joni MitchellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Accessories: Soundtracks:
- Court and Spark
- Help Me
- Free Man in Paris
- People's Parties
- The Same Situation
- Car on a Hill
- Down to You
- Just Like This Train
- Raised on Robbery
- Trouble Child
- Twisted
Music reviews of Court and Spark
Music Review: 'Stoking the star maker machinery, behind the popular song.'
Rating: 5 Stars
Court and Spark not only ranks among my three favorite Joni Mitchell albums (the other two being Blue and Hejira), it is arguably Joni Mitchell's best album. Certainly it has been her most commercially successful. Its 1974 release marked a radical departure for Mitchell, infusing her definitive folk-rock sound with elements of pop without any compromises. In many ways, Court and Spark is Mitchell's watershed album, with a perfect arrangement of meticulously-crafted pop songs and Mitchell classics ("Help Me," "Free Man In Paris," and "Raised On Robbery"). Her hit single "Help Me" became Mitchell's first and only Top 10 single. The album features an impressive list of backing musicians: Tom Scott on woodwinds and reeds; Joe Sample on electric piano; David Crosby and Graham Nash on background vocals; Robbie Robertson on electric guitar; Jose Feliciano on electric guitar; and even Cheech and Chong on "Twisted." The complete album tracklist includes:
1. Court And Spark 2:46
2. Help Me 3:24
3. Free Man In Paris 3:03
4. People's Parties 2:15
5. The Same Situation 2:57
6. Car On A Hill 3:02
7. Down To You 5:38
8. Just Like This Train 4:24
9. Raised On Robbery 3:07
10. Trouble Child 4:00
11. Twisted 2:21
G. Merritt
Description of Court and Spark
Painter-turned-folksinger Joni Mitchell had slipped stark saxophone solos into her prior album, For the Roses, and her singing had often hinted at a capacity for bluesier fare than her guitar- and piano-framed confessional ballads offered. None of those hints prepared fans for this sudden, expansive shift toward a much larger canvas--a sleeker, orchestrated pop style pulsing with jazz elements. Court & Spark found Mitchell casting aside her earth mother affectations and revealing herself as the thoroughly modern, thoroughly complicated woman she is; the songs sustained familiar preoccupations with relationships but replaced courtly settings and naturalistic imagery with recognizably modern locales. Deeply romantic, constantly questioning, classic tracks like the title song, "Help Me," "Free Man in Paris," "Same Situation," and "Raised on Robbery" display a more liberated Mitchell, ready to rumble with unbridled electric guitars (guest Robbie Robertson on "...Robbery"), even willing to poke fun at her own oh-so-sensitive rep with a hip cover of Annie Ross's hilarious "Twisted." --Sam SutherlandCountry CDs
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