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Travelogue (Joni Mitchell album)

{{short description|2002 studio album by Joni Mitchell}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Travelogue

| type = studio

| artist = Joni Mitchell

| cover = Travelogue_.jpg

|alt = A painting of Mitchell leaning at an open window

| released = {{start date|2002|11|19|df=yes}}

| recorded = 2002

| venue =

| studio =

| genre =

| length = {{Duration|m=127|s=08}}

| label = Nonesuch

| producer = Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein

| prev_title = Both Sides Now

| prev_year = 2000

| year = 2002

| next_title = The Beginning of Survival

| next_year = 2004

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r613566 |title=Travelogue – Joni Mitchell | AllMusic |first=T. |last=Jurek |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |accessdate=19 July 2011}}

| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|chapter=Mitchell, Joni|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|location=London|publisher=Omnibus Press|edition=5th concise|year=2011|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}

| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev3Score = A−{{cite web |url= http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,390636,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080125054846/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,390636,00.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 25 January 2008 |title=Travelogue Review | Music Reviews and News |first=Chris |last=Willman |work=Entertainment Weekly |year=2011 |access-date=19 July 2011}}

| rev4 = Robert Christgau

| rev4Score = Image:Rating-Christgau-dud.png{{cite web |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=11798 |title=Robert Christgau: Album: Joni Mitchell: Travelogue |first=R. |last=Christgau |work=robertchristgau.com |year=2011 |accessdate=19 July 2011}}

| rev5 = Rolling Stone

| rev5Score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine|url=http://rollingstone.com/artists/jonimitchell/albums/album/252133/review/5946111/travelogue |title=Joni Mitchell: Travelogue : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone |first=J. |last=Hunter |magazine=Rolling Stone |year=2011 |accessdate=19 July 2011 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124144458/http://rollingstone.com/artists/jonimitchell/albums/album/252133/review/5946111/travelogue |archivedate=24 January 2009 }}

}}

Travelogue is a double album and the eighteenth studio album released on November 19, 2002 by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell featuring orchestral re-recordings of songs throughout her career. It 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 recorded one further studio album, Shine.

Vince Mendoza composed the orchestral arrangements. He won a 2004 Grammy award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for his arrangement of "Woodstock". The album was not commercially successful and failed to chart, and also received mixed reviews from critics. As of 2007, the two-disc set had sold 72,000 copies in the US.{{cite web|author=Phil Gallo|title=Mitchell perks up for Starbucks|url=https://variety.com/2007/music/news/mitchell-perks-up-for-starbucks-1117969077/|publisher=Variety|date=24 July 2007}}

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" (Lyrics based on 1 Corinthians 13) – 5:40
  5. "Woodstock" – 5:56
  6. "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" (Lyrics based on the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats) – 7:11
  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" (Mitchell / Alex North, Hy Zaret) – 5:41
  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, art direction, photography, painting
  • Larry Klein – bass, musical direction
  • Herbie Hancock, John Lenehan – piano
  • Billy Preston – Hammond B3 organ
  • Chuck Berghofer – acoustic double bass
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Brian Blade – drums
  • Wayne Shorter, Phil Todd – soprano saxophone
  • Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone
  • Kenny Wheeler – flugelhorn
  • Gavyn Wright – orchestra leader
  • Vince Mendoza – conductor, arrangement
  • Kris Johnson – background vocals
  • Chris Laurence, David Ayre, Leon Bosch, Mary Scully, Patrick Lannigan, Simon Benson – bass
  • Dave Stewart – bass trombone
  • Gavin McNaughton, Julie Andrews, Robin O'Neill – bassoon
  • Anthony Pleeth, David Bucknall, David Daniels, Frank Schaefer, Helen Liebmann, Jonathan Tunnell, Martin Loveday, Paul Kegg, Robin Firman, Stephen Orton, Tony Lewis – cello
  • Andrew Busher, David Porter-Thomas, Donald Greig, Gerard O'Beirne, Graham Godfrey, Jeremy Birchall, Jeremy Rose, John Bowley, John Kingsley-Smith, Jonathan Arnold, Jonathan Rathbone, Lindsay Benson, Matthew Brook, Metro Voices, Michael Dore, Michael Pearn, Robert Evans, Robert Johnston, Robert Kearley, Simon Grant, Stephen Charlesworth – choir
  • Jenny O'Grady – choir conductor
  • David Fuest, Heather Nicholl, Nicholas Bucknall – clarinet
  • Richard Skinner – contrabassoon
  • Isobel Griffiths – orchestra contractor
  • Sue Bohling – cornet
  • Andrew Findon, Anna Noakes, Helen Keen – flute
  • Helen Tunstall, Hugh Webb, Skaila Kanga – harp
  • David Pyatt, John Pigneguy, Michael Thompson, Philip Eastop, Richard Berry, Richard Bissill, Richard Watkins, Simon Rayner – horn
  • Jacob Heringman – lute
  • Chris Cowie, John Anderson, Sue Bohling – oboe
  • Chris Baron, Frank Ricotti, Glyn Matthews, Steve Henderson, William Lockhart – percussion
  • Mike Hext, Pete Beachill, Peter Davies, Richard Edwards, Roger Harvey – trombone
  • Andy Crowley, Derek Watkins, John Barclay, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Archibald, Simon Gardner, Stuart Brooks – trumpet
  • Andy Crowley – c-trumpet
  • Owen Slade – tuba
  • Bob Smissem, Bruce White, Catherine Bradshaw, Donald McVay, Garfield Jackson, Gustav Clarkson, Justin Ward, Peter Lale, Philip Dukes, Rachel Bolt, Tim Grant, Zoe Lake – viola
  • Antonia Fuchs, Ben Cruft, Boguslaw Kostecki, Cathy Thompson, Chris Tombling, David Emanuel, David Woodcock, Dermot Crehan, Douglas Mackie, Elizabeth Edwards, Everton Nelson, Helen Hathorn, Jackie Shave, Jim McLeod, Jonathan Evans-Jones, Jonathan Rees, Jonathan Strange, Julian Leaper, Katherine Shave, Mark Berrow, Michael McMenemy, Patrick Kiernan, Paul Willey, Perry Montague-Mason, Peter Hanson, Rebecca Hirsch, Rita Manning, Simon Fischer, Warren Zielinski – violin

;Technical

  • Geoff Foster, Helix Hadar – recording
  • Allen Sides – mixing
  • Cindi Peters, Dana Pilson – production coordination

Charts

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{{album chart|Finland|28|artist=Joni Mitchell|album= Travelogue |rowheader=true}}
{{album chart|UKJazz|6|date=20021215|rowheader=true|access-date=28 April 2024}}

References

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Category:Albums produced by Larry Klein

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