1969 Joni Mitchell RADIO STATION Album _Vinyl_Record_LP_____LADIES_OF_THE_CANYON

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1969 Joni Mitchell LADIES OF THE CANYON "RADIO STATION SERVICE" Album "Not For Resale"

Ladies of the Canyon is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on Reprise Records in 1970. It peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The title makes reference to Laurel Canyon, a centre of popular music culture in Los Angeles during the 1960s. The album includes several of Mitchell's most noted songs, such as "Big Yellow Taxi", "Woodstock" and "The Circle Game".

The album is notable for its expansion of Mitchell's artistic vision and its varied song topics (ranging from the aesthetic weight of celebrity, to observation of the Woodstock generation, to the complexities of love). Ladies of the Canyon is often viewed as a transition between Mitchell's folky earlier work and the more sophisticated, poignant albums that were to follow. In particular, "For Free" foreshadows the lyrical leitmotif of the isolation triggered by success that would be elaborated upon in For the Roses and Court and Spark. The sparse, alternative-tuning laden sound of later records comes to the forefront on "Ladies of the Canyon".

Of all of Mitchell's work, this album is the most related to her long-standing friendships and relationships with Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young (whose rock arrangement of "Woodstock" was one of their four radio hits in 1970). Mitchell was living with Graham Nash at the time much of the album was written. A number of the album's songs, including the aforementioned "Ladies of the Canyon" and "Woodstock", feature densely stacked, wordless harmony overdubs reminiscent of David Crosby's oeuvre; Crosby himself has performed "For Free" for many years. "The Circle Game", one of the artist's early signature songs, features background vocals from all four, and is a response to Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain".

The cover is in terrible condition. The radio station wrote on the cover describing which song was "scratchy," which one was "light & lively," and an "A2" is marked next to a couple as well. The cover has been repaired in various places by the radio station. The Album itself does have light scratches, however it played through both sides when tested (on a Pioneer Quartz PL-930 with weighted arm).

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SIDE 1
Morning Morgantown
For Free
Conversation
Ladies of the Canyon
Willie
The Arrangement

SIDE 2
Rainy Night House
The Priest
Blue Boy
Big Yellow Taxi
Woodstock
The Circle Game


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