Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell is experiencing a major career reevaluation, with almost every young singer-songwriter singing her songs and her praises. The Beginning of Survival collects material from the late 1980s and early '90s, when few were paying attention. This is daring work with complex structures and rhythms guided by Mitchell's pliant melodies and rich narratives.

This is a reissue of social-commentary songs from five albums Joni Mitchell recorded
between 1985 and 1998, when she was making music of luxurious, iconoclastic complexity.
No intimate acoustic-guitar confessions here. Instead you get rhythms that expand and
dart, melodies that drape tuneful bits from lofty heights, singing that is remote and
in-your-face. The tracks, which cohere well as a group, move with poise and sli... More >