Was wondering if Archives 3 will include any live recordings from her US tour of early 76 ? Never heard any songs from these shows. No Tom Scott, but still accompanied by the LA Express.
Really looking forward to the next Archives set after reading some of what will be on it upthread. Not that I want to rush through the holidays, but can't wait for next Spring. It's like being young and reading in print (long before the internet was even an idea) that so and so was in the studio, and I knew then a new album was in the works and I waited week after week for the release. Here's to 2023!
I can confirm that Joni was personally involved with the Quad mixes. I got it from Joel Bernstein, Joni friend and photographer. He would sometimes bring work into the professional photo lab I worked for in San Francisco. Super nice guy. I asked if the Quad mixes of Court and Spark and Hissing of Summer Lawns would ever be released and he said the tapes were ready, but didn't know when or if they would be released on CD. This was over 15 years ago. My personal favorite track of those is "Raised on Robbery", where you can hear Robbie Robertson's great rhythm guitar work more clearly. Joel once brought in the film from the cover shoot for Hejira, which is a favorite, and I was able to print some of those shots for him. He also brought in personal items of Neil Young for us to scan, as we were the first to be doing high-res scans in the city way back when. I remember the hand-written lyrics of "Cinnamon Girl" on a napkin, especially. Good times.
I have a digital copy of the quad version of Court And Spark and at least on my transfer, lot of Joni's harmonies are missing on Raised On Robbery. I don't remember whether other songs also have differences.
Unfortunate, as Joni's short-lived spring '76 tour served basically to promote the Hissing of Summer Lawns LP, which is included in the next batch of remasters - though perhaps leaving this out will enable them to include more 72-75 material on those 5 discs. The '76 tour was good, maybe not great, but I was glad to catch one of the few shows (Syracuse). Highlight for me was the newly-unveiled Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, which she flowed into directly from Coyote (same tuning). (She'd earlier performed Coyote during some of her Rolling Thunder Review spots in late '75.) Love or Money, Harry's House, Free Man in Paris and In France were other highlights. Some of the new material (Talk to Me) wasn't as impressive, and Jungle Line was hardly a good encore song, though her take on Twisted surely is. There are one or 2 recordings from the tour floating around out there, well worth hearing. Another interesting question is whether the next Archives set will include any of her Rolling Thunder Review performances from late Nov.-early Dec. 1975. You can actually find a few of these online at Bill Graham's Concert Vault site, the best of which imho is the newly-written Don't Interrupt the Sorrow.
Got my artwork as well via UPS. Seems strange to send it separately from the music. They did the same things with the Reprise Years boxset art.
listening to the live version of woodstock from the new box, and wow what a groove! really looking forward to listening to all of this.
Evening all, I’ve got a question, and I’ve had a trawl through this site (it’s a goldmine!) With the album Travelogue do we know about which other songs were tried/recorded but didn’t make the final cut? I’ve seen references to Coyote being recorded but nothing else. Just curious….
It's probably not that strange, the art is likely shipping from a different place than the distributor doing the record boxes. Sending the artwork to the customer means they don't have to have a plan to match up all the boxes of inventory of records with orders from Joni's site.
Coyote is definite. She sang along to its orchestral backing track at one appearance in 2002 before the album was complete. There is also footage of the recording sessions that was going to be turned into a documentary before plans changed.
think i might be at the point of waiting for the whole albums before i listen to these previews for the first time. can't wait.
