Travelogue (Joni Mitchell album)
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Travelogue | |||||
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Studio album by Joni Mitchell | |||||
Released | November 19, 2002 | ||||
Recorded | 2002 | ||||
Genre | Jazz | ||||
Length | 2:07:08 | ||||
Label | Nonesuch | ||||
Producer | Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein | ||||
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Travelogue is a 2002 double album by Joni Mitchell featuring orchestral re-recordings of songs from throughout her career. It is the follow-up to 2000's Both Sides Now which had a similar format. Upon release Mitchell announced that it would be her last album, but later revealed work on a new studio album.
As of December 2007, the two-disc set has sold 72,000 copies in the US.
[edit] Track listing
All tracks composed by Joni Mitchell; except where indicated
Disc 1
- "Otis and Marlena" – 3:54
- "Amelia" – 6:48
- "You Dream Flat Tires" – 3:48
- "Love" – 5:40
- "Woodstock" – 5:56
- "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" – 7:11 (Based on a poem by W. B. Yeats)
- "Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune)" – 5:22
- "The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)" – 7:09
- "For the Roses" – 7:28
- "Trouble Child" – 5:02
- "God Must Be a Boogie Man" – 3:56
Disc 2
- "Be Cool" – 5:09
- "Just Like This Train" – 5:04
- "Sex Kills" – 3:57
- "Refuge of the Roads" – 7:56
- "Hejira" – 6:47
- "Chinese Café / Unchained Melody" – 5:41 (Alex North, Hy Zaret)
- "Cherokee Louise" – 6:00
- "The Dawntreader" – 5:38
- "The Last Time I Saw Richard" – 4:58
- "Borderline" – 6:23
- "The Circle Game" – 6:50
[edit] Personnel
Joni Mitchell - vocals
- Larry Klein - bass, musical direction
- Herbie Hancock - piano
- Billy Preston - Hammond B3 organ
- Chuck Berghofer - double bass
- Paulinho Da Costa - percussion
- Brian Blade - drums
- Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone
- Plas Johnson - tenor saxophone
- Kenny Wheeler - flugelhorn
- Gavyn Wright - orchestra leader
- Vince Mendoza - conductor, arrangement