| Miles of Aisles | ||||
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| Live album by Joni Mitchell | ||||
| Released | November 1974 | |||
| Recorded | March 2 and 4, 1974; August 14-17, 1974 The Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles Music Center and Berkeley Community Center |
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| Genre | Folk jazz, Folk-rock, Singer-songwriter | |||
| Length | 74:00 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Producer | Joni Mitchell | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [1] |
| Rolling Stone | (not rated)[2] |
| Robert Christgau | (B-)[3] |
Miles of Aisles is a 1974 double live album by Joni Mitchell backed by the L.A. Express, recorded on the Court and Spark tour. It reached #2 on the charts and became one of her biggest-selling records.
Four years after "Big Yellow Taxi" stalled at #67 on the charts in its original studio version, the live version heard on Miles of Aisles was released as a single and reached #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, becoming Mitchell's fourth top 40 hit and continuing her commercial hot streak at the time.
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All tracks composed and arranged by Joni Mitchell
(The running times are as listed on the CD, which left out a lot of the onstage banter. The Double-LP has a length of 78 min.)
Recorded at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, California 14 - 17 August 1974, the L.A. Music Center, 4 March 1974 (track 5) and the Berkeley Community Center, 2 March 1974 (track 13).
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