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- Record Label: Elektra
- Release Date: Oct 6, 2023
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- Summary: The third box set of unreleased material from Joni Mitchell includes demos, recording sessions with Graham Nash, David Crosby and Neil Young, and the entire live recording of her performance at Carnegie Hall in 1972.
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- Record Label: Elektra
- Genre(s): Jazz, Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock, Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Vocal Jazz, Folk Jazz, AM Pop, Jazz-Rock
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Nov 20, 2023From a 1972 Carnegie Hall show to a spring ’74 performance with Tom Scott & The L.A. Express and an appearance the following September at Wembley Stadium, Mitchell reveals herself here during each period as a fascinating artist who was well worth returning to year after year, as she continues to be.
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UncutOct 25, 2023It's an embarrassment of riches. [Nov 2023, p.40]
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Classic Rock MagazineOct 17, 2023It is an embarrassment of riches, not least the variety of exceptional live material. [Nov 2023, p.87]
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Oct 27, 2023Joni Mitchell's powers as a songwriter and creative spirit are unparalleled at every step of her journey, but her output in the '70s was on a higher plane, even for her. Archives, Vol. 3 reflects this with behind-the-scenes material just as storied and worthy as the music that Mitchell was making during one of her finest hours.
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Oct 17, 2023An exhaustive presentation of Mitchell’s process in this era. Some of the recordings are so good that it’s difficult to understand how they sat in the vaults for this long. Others are brilliant, but close enough to the released versions that anyone with less than a scholarly interest in Mitchell would be better served by the official albums.
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Oct 17, 2023Even with the three original albums alone, Joni Mitchell has left us with such a profound legacy that it didn’t seem possible for anything to come along and reveal more depth to her art. Against all odds, Archives, Vol. 3 does just that and more.
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Oct 17, 2023In tracing the way Mitchell’s songs mutated from bare-boned recordings to fully realized tracks with more musicians than she’d ever used before, Archives Volume 3 finally allows us to hear those steps along the way. That evolution is most apparent in the making of Court and Spark, an album that was both a beautifully crafted piece of adult pop on par with Steely Dan‘s work and a warm, intimate, emotionally conflicted meditation on love and relationships.