Mitchell, Joni: Ladies Of The Canyon (Vinyl LP)

Ladies Of The Canyon is the third studio album by Joni Mitchell. The album was originally released in 1970 and has now been newly remastered by Bernie Grundman under the supervision of Joni Mitchell. Includes some of Mitchell’s most well know songs including ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, ‘Woodstock’ and ‘The Circle Game’. 

Ladies Of The Canyon can be viewed as Joni Mitchell's coming-out party. Having recently moved to Lookout Mountain in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon area – her house is depicted in a watercolour painting she made for the record's cover – the Canadian icon turned to her immediate surroundings for inspiration all the while taking the pulse of national affairs, corporate enterprise, celebrity, and her relationship with Graham Nash.

The rather upbeat Ladies Of The Canyon also finds the singer-songwriter morphing into the groundbreaker who would shed folk music's constructs and wade into pop, jazz, soul, and poetry with a combination of depth, sophistication, self-examination, and acumen no one had ever heard. Deemed "powerful and brilliant" upon release by The New York Times, this 1970 set marks the first of six consecutive masterworks Mitchell made.

Black vinyl version.

1. Morning Morgantown
   
2. For Free
   
3. Conversation
   
4. Ladies Of The Canyon
   
5. Willy
   
6. The Arrangement
7. Rainy Night House
   
8. The Priest
   
9. Blue Boy
   
10. Big Yellow Taxi
    
11. Woodstock
    
12. The Circle Game