Everything, everything, everything. Three albums of never-before-heard Joni material. We remain speechless, our ears are not big enough. Think. Essential song demos that are already perfect without dressing (Help Me). Alternative versions that are inevitably fascinating, including You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio with Neil Young and his Stray Gators. Obviously enjoyable extracts from studio sessions “for fun”: rock’n’roll from the 1950s revisited with James Taylor. Of the pickings exquisite guitar: the box set opens with a session with Graham Nash and David Crosby! Performances chosen from many, many shows from this blessed era, where everything is always good, where one wonders what led to the choice. And so on. The level of quality of Joni Mitchell’s archives is extraordinary, as we suspected. But at this point? Each piece, an inexplicable omission in the work? Yes. That is to say.
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