Travelogue (Joni Mitchell album) explained

Travelogue
Type:studio
Artist:Joni Mitchell
Cover:Travelogue_.jpg
Alt:A painting of Mitchell leaning at an open window
Recorded:2002
Studio:
  • Ocean Way, Hollywood
  • AIR Lyndhurst, London
  • Record One, Los Angeles
  • Market Street, Santa Monica
Label:Nonesuch
Producer:Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein
Prev Title:Both Sides Now
Prev Year:2000
Year:2002
Next Title:The Beginning of Survival
Next Year:2004

Travelogue is a 2002 double album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell featuring orchestral re-recordings of songs from throughout her career. It is her 18th studio album and is the follow-up to 2000's Both Sides Now which had a similar format. Upon release Mitchell announced that it would be her last album, but later recorded one further studio album, Shine.

Vince Mendoza composed the orchestral arrangements. He won a 2004 Grammy award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for his arrangement of "Woodstock". The album was not commercially successful and failed to chart, and also received mixed reviews from critics. As of 2007, the two-disc set had sold 72,000 copies in the US.[1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joni Mitchell; except where indicated

Disc 1

  1. "Otis and Marlena" – 3:54
  2. "Amelia" – 6:48
  3. "You Dream Flat Tires" – 3:48
  4. "Love" (Lyrics based on 1 Corinthians 13) – 5:40
  5. "Woodstock" – 5:56
  6. "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" (Lyrics based on the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats) - 7:11
  7. "Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune)" – 5:22
  8. "The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)" – 7:09
  9. "For the Roses" – 7:28
  10. "Trouble Child" – 5:02
  11. "God Must Be a Boogie Man" – 3:56

Disc 2

  1. "Be Cool" – 5:09
  2. "Just Like This Train" – 5:04
  3. "Sex Kills" – 3:57
  4. "Refuge of the Roads" – 7:56
  5. "Hejira" – 6:47
  6. "Chinese Café / Unchained Melody" (Mitchell / Alex North, Hy Zaret) - 5:41
  7. "Cherokee Louise" – 6:00
  8. "The Dawntreader" – 5:38
  9. "The Last Time I Saw Richard" – 4:58
  10. "Borderline" – 6:23
  11. "The Circle Game" – 6:50

Personnel

Technical

Weekly charts

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Phil Gallo. Mitchell perks up for Starbucks. Variety. 24 July 2007.