Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon - VINYL LP

ULTRADISC ONE-STEP BOX SET OF rich 1974 ALBUM PLAYS WITH ARRESTING DETAIL, CLARITY, AND OPENNESSMastering Source to Be Determined Closer to Production Date; Specifics Will Be Posted Here When AuthenticatedCourt and Spark, the most commercially successful album of Joni Mitchell's trailblazing career, arrived after a year in which she took some time to breathe and kept a low profile. The much-deserved break led to yet more breakthroughs. Demonstrably marking Mitchell's increasing drift toward jazz (and proclivity for absorbing the works of Miles Davis and John Coltrane), and teeming with heightened confidence, beautiful melodies, and shape-shifting arrangements, the rich 1974 record earned four Grammy nominations and was voted the Best Album of the Year in the prestigious Pazz & Jop poll. Court and Spark witnesses the singer-songwriter finding not only her footing with a group of musicians who seemingly understand her visions and desires - but expanding her lyrical palette and venturing further into territory no artist had dared explore. Balancing deceptively light compositions with underlying tensions, the work Rolling Stone named the 110th Best Album of All Time now possesses the rich, detailed sound it's always deserved on Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP box set. Album Tracks 1. Court and Spark 2. Help Me 3. Free Man in Paris 4. People's Parties 5. Same Situation 6. Car on a Hill 7. Down to You 8. Just Like This Train 9. Raised on Robbery 10. Trouble Child 11. Twisted

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Remastered by Bernie Grundman under the supervision of Joni Mitchell. Includes InchWoodstockInch & InchThe Circle GameInch. Album Tracks 1. Morning Morgantown 2. For Free 3. Conversation 4. Ladies of the Canyon 5. Willy 6. The Arrangement 7. Rainy Night House 8. The Priest 9. Blue Boy 10. Big Yellow Taxi 11. Woodstock 12. The Circle Game

HYBRID SACD PRESENTS LANDMARK 1970 ALBUM IN REFERENCE-LEVEL AUDIOPHILE SOUNDLadies of the Canyon can be viewed as Joni Mitchell's coming-out party. Having recently moved to Lookout Mountain in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon area - her house is depicted in a watercolor painting she made for the record's cover - the Canadian icon turned to her immediate surroundings for inspiration all the while taking the pulse of national affairs, corporate enterprise, celebrity, and her relationship with Graham Nash. The rather upbeat Ladies of the Canyon also finds the singer-songwriter morphing into the groundbreaker who would shed folk music's constructs and wade into pop, jazz, soul, and poetry with a combination of depth, sophistication, self-examination, and acumen no one had ever heard. Deemed 'powerful and brilliant' upon by The New York Times, this 1970 set marks the first of six consecutive masterworks Mitchell made - and an album that deserves to be heard in reference-grade audiophile sound on Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition hybrid SACD. Details 1. Morning Morgantown 2. For Free 3. Conversation 4. Ladies of the Canyon 5. Willy 6. The Arrangement 7. Rainy Day House 8. The Priest 9. Blue Boy 10. Big Yellow Taxi 11. Woodstock 12. The Circle Game