JONI MITCHELL---CLICK VIEW MORE COMMENTS TO SEE THE CLIPS 11/2/2014 Joni Mitchell penned countless love songs in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career that has spanned nearly 50 years, but the Canadian singer/songwriter faced a daunting task when she challenged herself to condense her 17 albums into a single disc of her best songs about love and heartbreak. After spending 18 months on the project, Mitchell ended up with Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced, a career-spanning four-disc collection focusing on Mitchells most romantic works. The handpicked box set arrives November 17th via Rhino. I wanted the music to feel like a total work, a new work. No matter what I did, though, at that length, it remained merely a collection of songs, Mitchell said in a statement. I am a painter who writes songs. My songs are very visual. The words create scenes... What I have done here is to gather some of these scenes (like a documentary filmmaker) and by juxtaposition, edit them into a whole new work. I had 40 years of footage to review, Mitchell continued. Then, suddenly, scenes began to hook up. Then series began to form. Instead of it being an emotional roller coaster ride as it was before—crammed into one disc—themes began to develop. Moods sustained. I was getting there... When this long editorial process (two years) finally came to rest, I had four ballets or a four-act ballet-a quartet. I also had a box set. Many of Mitchells best cuts, like River, Hejira and Carey, are represented alongside later gems like Both Sides Now and Not to Blame. All of Love Has Many Faces 53 tracks have been newly remastered. The collection is Mitchells first release since 2007s Shine.
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