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Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Released in January 1974, it infuses the folk rock style of her previous albums with jazz elements. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album.
Admitting another angle on Court And Spark's multi-faceted address of the interpersonal, Mitchell writes through the flux of romance, the middle stanza taking the protagonist out to a pickup joint, where "closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found".
17 de jan. de 2024 · The song’s mood of liberation is enhanced by a guest guitar appearance from José Feliciano, and harmonies sung by David Crosby and Graham Nash.
- Jeanette Leech
Yet Court and Spark melts the feeler and the thinker into one woman: fiercely perceptive, proud, too smart for the men who become her characters, yet longing for what we call love.
23 de ago. de 2014 · Court and Spark is the sixth album by Joni Mitchell and the first where she moved towards pop and jazz elements to blend with her base folk compositions. The album has been considered by some to be a concept album due to its consistent, recurring themes about love and fleeting relationships.
17 de jan. de 2024 · The recording of Court And Spark was surprisingly sociable. Mitchell began dating Guerin. John Lennon, mid-‘lost weekend’, visited from another A&M studio, where he was making Rock ‘n’ Roll and one of his guitarists, José Feliciano stayed long enough to overdub extra guitar on ‘Free Man In Paris’.
15 de jul. de 2021 · Fusing neo-jazz with folk and rock, Joni Mitchell’s sixth studio album – Court and Spark – deftly weaves a sonic tapestry whose lyrical tenor plays counterpoint and asks the listener to weigh the costs of emotional commitment against the benefits of casual relationships.
