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Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark flac album
  • Performer Joni Mitchell
  • Title Court And Spark
  • Country US
  • Style Soft Rock, Pop Rock
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  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1448 mb
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  • Rating: 4.3
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Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was an immediate commercial and critical success-and remains her most successful album. Released in January 1974, it infuses her folk rock style, which she developed throughout her previous five albums, with jazz inflections. It reached No. 2 in the United States and No. 1 in Canada and eventually received a Double Platinum certification by the RIAA, the highest of Mitchell's career

Release date: January 17, 1974. Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and Graham Nash (on Free Man In Paris), Susan Webb and David Crosby (on Down To You), Cheech and Chong (on Twisted) Electric Guitar - Wayne Perkins (on Car On A Hill), Dennis Budimir (on Trouble Child); Robbie Robertson (on Raised on Robbery), Jose Feliciano and Larry Carlton (on Free.

Court and Spark is a truly special album. Joni Mitchell proves herself quite handily with its contents. This is one of the reasons why many label her as the female Bob Dylan. I can’t recommend Court and Spark too highly. Every element of the album can’t help but impress. Check it out, and I’m sure you’ll find something you can appreciate.

The original master two-track tape was used to cut the master lacquers at the JVC Cutting Center in Hollywood, California. Tapes and lacquers were run at half their normal speeds to ensure maximum fidelity, dynamic range and widest possible frequency response.

Court and Spark sits halfway between Joni Mitchell’s folkie past and her jazz-rock future. Yet the album is no mere transitional affair-not by a long shot. On Help Me and Just Like This Train, she displays a master’s touch, weaving romantic insecurities into arrangements that, decades later, haven’t surrendered their sophistication.

Listen free to Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark (Court and Spark, Help Me and more). Joni Mitchell reached her commercial high point with Court and Spark, a remarkably deft fusion of folk, pop, and jazz which stands as her best-selling work to date. Connect to this site.

Court & Spark found Mitchell casting aside her earth mother affectations and revealing herself as the thoroughly modern, thoroughly complicated woman she is; the songs sustained familiar preoccupations with relationships but replaced courtly settings and naturalistic imagery with recognizably modern locales.

Band Name Joni Mitchell. Album Name Court And Spark. 2. Help Me. 3. Free Man in Paris.

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Court And Spark
Chimes – Milt Holland
2:46
A2 Help Me 3:22
A3 Free Man In Paris
Backing Vocals – David Crosby, Graham Nash, Joni MitchellGuitar – Jose Feliciano*
3:02
A4 People's Parties 2:20
A5 The Same Situation 3:05
B1 Car On A Hill
Guitar – Wayne Perkins
2:58
B2 Down To You
Backing Vocals – David Crosby, Susan WebbClavinet – Joni Mitchell
5:36
B3 Just Like This Train 4:23
B4 Raised On Robbery
Guitar – Robbie Robertson
3:05
B5 Trouble Child
Bass – Jim HughartGuitar – Dennis BudimirTrumpet – Chuck Findley
3:57
B6 Twisted
Backing Vocals – Cheech & ChongTrumpet – Chuck Findley
2:18

Credits

  • Bass – Max Bennett (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B4, B6), Wilton Felder (tracks: A3, A4)
  • Drums, Percussion – John Guerin
  • Electric Piano – Joe Sample
  • Engineer – Henry Lewy
  • Guitar – Larry Carlton (tracks: A1 to A5, B2, B3, B6)
  • Producer, Vocals, Piano – Joni Mitchell
  • Woodwind, Reeds – Tom Scott

Notes

Gatefold sleeve.

On back cover:
Distributed by WEA Musik GmbH. A Warner Communications Company. Made in Germany. (P) (C) Asylum Records. Mfg. by Elektra / Asylum / Nonesuch Records, a division of Warner Communications Inc., 15 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10023.

Song Title Discrepancy:
A5 title is "Same Situation" on the label
A5 title is "The Same Situation" on the sleeve

Date on sleeve is printed as 1974, date on label is printed as 1973.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: GEMA
  • Label Code: LC2648
  • Other: (Distribution Code Germany): Y
  • Matrix / Runout: (Runout Side A, etched): WEA SD-5072 AI
  • Matrix / Runout: (Runout Side A, stamped): MANUFACTURED IN GERMANY
  • Matrix / Runout: (Runout Side B, etched): WEA 5072-B FF
  • Matrix / Runout: (Runout Side B, stamped): MANUFACTURED IN GERMANY

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
7E-1001 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(LP, Album, San) Asylum Records 7E-1001 US 1974
TP-1001 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(8-Trk, Album) Asylum Records TP-1001 US 1974
CD 1001 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(HDCD, Album, RE, RM) Asylum Records CD 1001 Canada 2003
1001-2 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(HDCD, Album, RE, RP) Asylum Records 1001-2 US Unknown
7E-1001 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(LP, Album, Club, RE, Gat) Asylum Records 7E-1001 US Unknown

Tracklist

1 Court And Spark 2:46
2 Help Me 3:22
3 Free Man In Paris 3:02
4 People's Parties 2:20
5 Same Situation 3:05
6 Car On A Hill 2:58
7 Down To You 5:36
8 Just Like This Train 4:23
9 Raised On Robbery 3:05
10 Trouble Child 3:57
11 Twisted 2:18

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Asylum Records
  • Copyright (c) – Asylum Records
  • Manufactured By – Record Service GmbH
  • Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation

Credits

  • Arranged By – Joni Mitchell (tracks: 6, 7), Tom Scott (tracks: 7)
  • Arranged By [Strings] – Tom Scott (tracks: 5)
  • Art Direction, Design – Anthony Hudson
  • Bass – Jim Hughart (tracks: 10), Max Bennett, Wilton Felder (tracks: 3, 4)
  • Chimes – Milt Holland (tracks: 1)
  • Clavinet – Joni Mitchell (tracks: 7)
  • Composed By – Ross* (tracks: 11), Joni Mitchell (tracks: 1 to 10), Grey* (tracks: 11)
  • Drums, Percussion – John Guerin
  • Electric Guitar – Dennis Budimir (tracks: 10), José Feliciano (tracks: 3), Larry Carlton (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 8, 11), Robbie Robertson (tracks: 9), Wayne Perkins (tracks: 6)
  • Electric Piano – Joe Sample
  • Engineer – Henry Lewy
  • Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
  • Painting [Cover Painting] – Joni Mitchell
  • Photography By – Norman Seeff
  • Piano – Joni Mitchell
  • Trumpet – Chuck Findley (tracks: 10, 11)
  • Voice [Background] – Cheech & Chong (tracks: 11), David Crosby (tracks: 3, 7), Graham Nash (tracks: 3), Joni Mitchell (tracks: 3), Susan Webb (tracks: 7)
  • Woodwind, Reeds – Tom Scott

Notes

Disc label:
P 1973 Asylum Records
Reverse/tray insert:
Ⓒ 1974 Asylum Records Ⓟ 1974 Asylum Records

Disc label:
Made in Germany
Reverse/tray insert:
Manufactured in Germany by Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf

There are a series of European re-issues using the 7559-60593-2 cat. no., and the same basic artwork, so that the credit to Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf appears even when the disc shows much later manufacturing :-
A pressing by Specialty Records Corporation (no later than 1993) with the distribution code "FRANCE WE 835" under the cat. no. on the reverse - this version.
A pressing by Warner Music Manufacturing Europe with SIDS with the distribution code "EW 835" under the cat. no. on the reverse - "Court And Spark".
A later repressing of the second artwork by Cinram GmbH with the distribution code "EW 835" under the cat. no. on the reverse - "Court And Spark".

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 0 7559-60593-2 9
  • Rights Society: GEMA / BIEM
  • Label Code: LC 2648
  • Other (Distribution code): FRANCE WE 835
  • Matrix / Runout: 2 53002 SRC-01
  • Matrix / Runout (Stamp in mould, variant 1): 43
  • Matrix / Runout (Stamp in mould, variant 2): 44

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
7E-1001 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(LP, Album, San) Asylum Records 7E-1001 US 1974
TP-1001 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(8-Trk, Album) Asylum Records TP-1001 US 1974
CD 1001 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(HDCD, Album, RE, RM) Asylum Records CD 1001 Canada 2003
1001-2 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(HDCD, Album, RE, RP) Asylum Records 1001-2 US Unknown
7E-1001 Joni Mitchell Court And Spark ‎(LP, Album, Club, RE, Gat) Asylum Records 7E-1001 US Unknown