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Tracklist (CD)
| 1-1 | | Otis And Marlena | | 3:54 | | 1-2 | | Amelia | | 6:48 | | 1-3 | | You Dream Flat Tires | | 3:48 | | 1-4 | | Love (I Corinthians 13) | | 5:40 | | 1-5 | | Woodstock | | 5:56 | | 1-6 | | Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Based On A Poem By W.B. Yeats) | | 7:11 | | 1-7 | | Judgement Of The Moon And Stars (Ludwig's Tune) | | 5:22 |
See more tracks| 1-8 | | The Sire Of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) | | 7:10 | | 1-9 | | For The Roses | | 7:31 | | 1-10 | | Trouble Child | | 5:04 | | 1-11 | | God Must Be A Boogie Man | | 3:56 | | 2-1 | | Be Cool | | 5:10 | | 2-2 | | Just Like This Train | | 5:04 | | 2-3 | | Sex Kills | | 3:57 | | 2-4 | | Refuge Of The Roads | | 7:57 | | 2-5 | | Hejira | | 6:49 | | | Chinese Café / Unchained Melody | | 5:43 | | 2-7 | | Cherokee Louise | | 6:02 | | 2-8 | | The Dawntreader | | 5:40 | | 2-9 | | The Last Time I Saw Richard | | 4:59 | | 2-10 | | Borderline | | 6:25 | | 2-11 | | The Circle Game | | 6:50 |
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Review
This bizarre two-disc recording finds the loftiest of singer-songwriters collaborating with a seventy-piece orchestra, revisiting her past work. The arrangements treat Mitchell's tunes as precious artifacts, making little attempt to seduce the listener; only on "The Circle Game," for example, do the strings provide the kind of romantic sonic brocades associated with great orchestral rock. Mitchell -- in strong, ultraconfident voice -- proceeds with her famous jazz inflections, delineating characters such as "Cherokee Louise," who lives under a tunnel.… Read More But, the occasional sax flourish notwithstanding, the music does not swing or get loose. Sometimes the album sounds wrongly monumental, as on "Woodstock"; other times, it misses the boat, as on "The Last Time I Saw Richard," which ignores the song's thrilling harmonics. Travelogue translates Joni Mitchell as a scrupulously constructed puzzle. . JAMES HUNTER
(RS 910 â November 28, 2002)
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