JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES – VOLUME 1: THE EARLY YEARS (1963-1967)

★★★★ (Rhino, 2020)

This document of Mitchell’s earliest career shows her outgrowing coffee-house folk repertoire, stretching out into her own songwriting. Urge For Going (recorded for Blue, then dropped) and Born To Take The Highway prefigure Carey and California’s restless wandering, freewheeling through the old, the cold, the settled in its ways. Also included is a 1967 performance of Little Green, Blue’s blessing over the daughter she placed for adoption in 1965. Travelling, travelling, travelling.