As usual, Mike has included a PDF file in the download with his own thoughts. So I don't feel the need to say more much here, since he says a lot there. But if you love Mitchell's early music yet had trouble with her jazzier albums, this is a good opportunity to hear this excellent album done in her earlier acoustic style.
The track order is the same as on the official album, but Mike threw on a couple of extra songs, "Jericho" and "Help Me," at the end.
This album is 54 minutes long.
01 Coyote (Joni Mitchell)
02 Amelia (Joni Mitchell)
03 Furry Sings the Blues (Joni Mitchell)
04 A Strange Boy (Joni Mitchell)
05 Traveling [Hejira] (Joni Mitchell)
06 Song for Sharon (Joni Mitchell)
07 Black Crow (Joni Mitchell)
08 Blue Motel Room (Joni Mitchell)
09 Refuge of the Roads [Early Mix with Horns] (Joni Mitchell)
10 Jericho [Rehearsal Version] (Joni Mitchell)
11 Help Me [Rehearsal Version] (Joni Mitchell)
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Luckily for my purposes, there are some outtakes from the photo session for the cover of the "Hejira" album. I selected one of those, and replaced the image on the cover. I also made a slight change to the album title.
i am sure i am the only one, but i would LOVE to see mike do an acoustic version of a Bee Gees album, especially Main Course! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing. I cried listening to this, just as I cried the first time I heard Joni's demos for The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Hejira is my favorite album by any artist ever. It is probably my favorite creative work, period. It is certainly the reason I became fascinated by the bass guitar. I've renamed it "Hejira without Jaco" in my Apple Music library because he only plays on the two rehearsals at the end. I believe that the album was mostly done before she met Jaco, and that some of the already recorded bass parts were replaced with his fretless work before mixing. It's nearly impossible to imagine Hejira without Jaco Pastorius. I think some sort of divine intervention brought those two together.
ReplyDeleteHi John, Thanks for the great note! If you send me your email address I'll get a nice Joni care package to you including all the other Hejira goodies I have been hoarding. I love the bass also. My favorites are Jaco, Chris Squire, Mark Egan and Tal Wilkenfeld or at least at the moment. M
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