Refugee of the Roads: Joni Mitchell’s Latest Archives Box Takes Listeners to the End of the ’70s

Rhino’s Joni Mitchell Archives series has been dependably running since 2020, offering alternating box sets featuring troves of unreleased material from the folk legend and remastered versions of the album eras they cover. With the most recent box collecting her last four albums for the Asylum label – Hejira (1976), Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and the live Shadows and Light (1980) – today’s new announcement closes that same chapter, offering hours of unreleased live and studio material tied to those records. Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980), released October 4, will feature six CDs…

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Weekend Wround-Up: Pat Metheny, Nat “King” Cole and More!

href=”https://theseconddisc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/nat-cole-st-louis-blues.jpg”> Analogue Productions continues its indispensable SACD reissue series of some of Nat King Cole’s finest releases on the Capitol label with the September 13 arrival of Just One of Those Things (1957) and St. Louis Blues (1958). Billy May handles the orchestrations for Just One of Those Things, which is playable as follows: a three-channel SACD section and Stereo SACD section include all songs except for the alternate take of “Just For The Fun Of It,” which was recorded in mono. There is a Mono SACD section with all songs included….

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