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Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (lp source) (1977)

Track listing:
  1. Overture - Cotton Avenue 6:45
  2. Talk to me 3:47
  3. Jericho 3:24
  4. Paprika Plains 16:25
  5. Otis And Marlena 4:05
  6. The Tenth World 6:55
  7. Dreamland 4:38
  8. Don Juan's Reckless Daughter 6:45
  9. Off Night Backstreet 3:23
  10. The Sky Veils Of Ardor 4:02

Notes

A big chunk of the pop audience Joni Mitchell had earned with Court and Spark in 1974 deserted her in 1975 and 1976 when the follow-ups, The Hissing of Summer Lawns and Hejira, proved more difficult works. With the pretentious double album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mitchell lost many of the loyal fans who'd stuck with her from the beginning but who now, as she spread her obscure poetic observations and thin melodies across whole sides of the album, found her disengaged from the close, personal observations that filled her best songs. This was Mitchell's last album to go gold.