Travelogue (Joni Mitchell album)

Travelogue
Studio album by Joni Mitchell
Released	November 19, 2002
Recorded	2002
Genre	Jazz
Length	127:08
Label	Nonesuch
Producer	Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein
Joni Mitchell chronology
Both Sides Now (2000) Travelogue (2002) The Beginning of Survival (2004)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[2]
Robert Christgau	[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

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 eighteenth 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 revealed work on a new studio album.

Vince Mendoza composed the orchestral arrangements. He won a 2004 Grammy award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for his arrangement of "Woodstock". As of 2007, the two-disc set had sold 72,000 copies in the US.^[5]

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" – 5:40
5. "Woodstock" – 5:56
6. "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" – 7:11 (Based on a poem by W. B. Yeats)
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" – 5:41 (Alex North, Hy Zaret)
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

• Joni Mitchell - vocals
• Larry Klein - bass, musical direction
• Herbie Hancock - piano
• Billy Preston - Hammond B3 organ
• Chuck Berghofer - double bass
• Paulinho da Costa - percussion
• Brian Blade - drums
• Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone
• Plas Johnson - tenor saxophone
• Kenny Wheeler - flugelhorn
• Gavyn Wright - orchestra leader
• Vince Mendoza - conductor, arrangement

References