Joni Mitchell - Come Rain Or Come Shine

I will be honest with you, I don’t know much about Shine the forthcoming album of Joni Mitchell, her first “real” one since 10 years, I only had the chance to listen to Hana on a local radio, which is a great song, that’s all. Anyway, it’s the new Joni Mitchell and I’m glad that she’s back - with Travelogue (2002), Joni said it was over for her and that it was her final recorded work. Of course, I will purchase Shine as soon as it will be available (September 25).
But there is a slight problem for me, it’s this Starbuck business. Joni Mitchell has signed a 2-album deal with Starbucks' Hear Music label. Shine is the first. I don’t mind that artists like Paul McCartney want to reach a larger audience in selling CDs in a coffee shop, but come on Joni, not you! And what about our local record shops, big ones or not… Why do we have to go in a coffee shop to buy a CD? Sorry, I don’t feel quite comfortable with that.
Well, Shine includes nine new songs as well as a new version of Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. The full track listing is (the lyrics have been released here):

1. One Week Last Summer
2. This Place
3. If I Had a Heart
4. Hana
5. Bad Dreams are Good
6. Big Yellow Taxi
7. Night of the Iguana
8. Strong and Wrong
9. Shine
10. If (bm)

Web: jonimitchell.com

Coinciding with Joni's own release date for Shine, the upcoming Herbie Hancock Joni tribute project will be out. The album is titled River - The Joni Letters and will feature some of the biggest names in pop and jazz music. After A Tribute To Joni Mitchell (read), another homage to the Lady Of The Canyon from a great musician. And last but not least, Chaka Khan's Funk This (Web) which will feature a cover of Joni's song Ladies' Man, will be out the same day.

Web: herbiehancock.com

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi .mp3 (Ladies Of The Canyon, 1973)

Joni Mitchell - A Chair In The Sky .mp3 ft. Herbie Hancock (Mingus, 1979)