10 of the Best Albums and Box Sets of 2024 Picking the 10 best albums and box sets of the year would involve too much arbitrariness, so here are 10 of the best rather than the 10 best. They’re listed alphabetically by artist. Click on the performers’ names for information about them or the recording […]
A Box Set Collects Four Notable Joni Mitchell Albums The third in a series of box sets of Joni Mitchell’s studio LPs includes four trailblazing LPs: Hejira, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, Mingus, and Shadows and Light. Called The Asylum Albums (1976–1980), the box comes with a new appreciative essay by Meryl Streep. Like the earlier […]
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Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3, plus Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus, Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon, and Jim Wyly Like the first and second volumes of Joni Mitchell’s Archives series, which respectively focused on previously unreleased material from 1963–1967 and 1968–1971, the new third volume is a five-CD treasure trove. (There’s also a four-LP edition […]
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Joni Mitchell released her last studio album, Shine, in 2007, after which her music began to take a back seat as she battled a rare skin condition called Morgellons. Then in 2015, she suffered a brain aneurism that briefly took away her ability to speak, left her unable to walk, resulted in the need for […]
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Because of her health problems, Joni Mitchell hasn’t issued any newly recorded material since 2007’s Shine, but that doesn’t mean nothing has been released since then. On the contrary, in just the last couple of years, we’ve witnessed the appearance of a flood of CDs. Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years delivered five discs’ worth […]
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“How does it feel, how does it feel? To be without a home Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone” “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan from Highway 61 Revisited “Like a Rolling Stone” was released in 1965 on the album Highway 61 Revisited. Clocking in at over 6 minutes, the song set a […]
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