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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.
Admitting another angle on Court And Spark's multi-faceted address of the interpersonal, Mitchell writes through the flux of romance, the middle stanza taking the protagonist out to a pickup joint, where "closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found".
9 mar 2024 · One of the highest points in this eight-album streak comes in Court and Spark, her sixth studio album released 50 years ago on Jan. 17, 1974. The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, a peak only matched by her live album Miles of Aisles released the same year.
18 gen 2024 · Joni Mitchell Court and Spark, Asylum Records 1974. Not that there weren’t non-jazzers on the album: The Band’s Robbie Robertson unleashes a fiery guitar solo on the first single, “Raised on Robbery,” and David Crosby and Graham Nash contribute some harmony vocals.
17 gen 2024 · ‘Down To You’ is Court And Spark’s cornerstone and one of the great songs of the 1970s. There’s a Buddhist view of transience comparing new lovers with new fashions, both being an ever-changing succession of veils that cover a core of loneliness.
Court and Spark è un album discografico di Joni Mitchell, pubblicato dall'etichetta discografica Asylum Records nel gennaio del 1974. L'album arrivò al numero due della classifica Billboard 200, successo nelle Chart Hot 100 di Billboard anche per i singoli: Free Man in Paris (#22), Help Me (#7) e Raised on Robbery (#65).
4 feb 2024 · “Sapevo di essere un genio”, canta Joni Mitchell su Twisted, la cover jazz che chiude il suo sesto album Court And Spark. Anche se non ha scritto lei quelle parole, sono adatte a concludere un disco così seminale.
