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Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Released in January 1974, it infuses the folk rock style of her previous albums with jazz elements. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album.
She still kept contact with her old crew - David Crosby and Graham Nash both tum up on backing vocals - and as with For The Roses, she brings in outliers for exotic touches, such as Jose Feliciano's guitar on "Free Man In Paris", and The Band's Robbie Robertson on "Raised On Robbery".
Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell’s sixth studio, has been her most commercially successful album, leading Rolling Stone magazine to call her the “Queen of Rock” in 1974. Two songs on the album ...
Jul 26, 1979 · Her last resoundingly successful album of new material was Court and Spark, a landmark in poetic songwriting, performing and in the growth of an artist we had all watched mature. From folk...
Jan 17, 2024 · 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.
Jan 18, 2021 · Completing 47 years this January, Joni Mitchell's classic album Court and Spark is only three years away from celebrating a semicentennial or what is more fashionably called the Golden Jubilee.
Jan 17, 2024 · On ‘Trouble Child’, Court And Spark’s romantic entanglements wash away, that "river of changing faces" leading only to a deep look inward, or possibly a mental health crisis. A shattered soul struggles in an atomised world, needing love but incapable of it, crumbling with options, bordering on suicide.
