BACK STORY: ALL SIDES, NOW

● This is the second volume in Joni’s Mitchell’s careerspanning and maybe career-closing Archive series, gathering the demos, outtakes, some audio vérité and three complete concert recordings (recorded by Reprise, the BBC and, er, Jimi Hendrix) from the period she was releasing records for Reprise – her first four albums. Features 122 tracks, 87 songs, the rest are introductions and documentary. The complete 5-CD set is also being released digitally. A 10-LP vinyl edition will be limited to 4,000 copies.