Joni Mitchell (WL Promo Vinyl LP 7E1051 1st Press) The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

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Artist: Joni Mitchell

Featuring: Graham Nash, David Crosby, James Taylor, Robben Ford, Jeff Baxter, Larry Carlton, Victor Feldman, Joe Sample, John Guerin, Max Bennett, Wilton Felder, The Warrior Drums of Burundi, Chuck Findley, Bud Shank, Dale Oehler

Album Title: The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Catalogue Number: 7E-1051

Year/Record Company: 1975 Asylum Records

1 LP – Stereo – 12” inch vinyl record – 33 1/3

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LP Condition: very good+

Shine: some

Scratches: few light

Label Wear: very light

Label: black on white with the “Asylum” logo at the top and “not for sale” at the left, name in blue ink on side 1 label at the left

Spindle Hole Wear: very light

Sound: very good+

Surface Noise: very light

Jacket Condition: very good

Shrink Wrap: none

Seam Wear: light

Back Ring Wear: light

Front Ring Wear: light

Ink Marks: name in ink on back, upper right (see photos)

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stickers: promotional sticker on front, lower right (see photos)

Sleeve: original picture sleeve, light wear; new anti-static sleeve also included

Cover: Joni Mitchell

Liner Notes: Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter. Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century". Drawing from folk, pop, rock and jazz, Mitchell's songs often reflect social and environmental ideals as well as her feelings about romance, confusion, disillusionment and joy.

Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and western Canada before busking in the streets and shoddy nightclubs of Toronto. In 1965, she moved to the United States and began touring. Some of her original songs ("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "The Circle Game") were covered by folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her debut album in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell, with popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock", helped define an era and a generation. Her 1971 recording Blue was rated the 30th best album ever made in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", the highest entry by a female artist. Mitchell switched labels and began moving toward jazz rhythms by way of lush pop textures on 1974's Court and Spark, her best-selling LP, featuring the radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris".

Around 1975 her vocal range began to shift from mezzo-soprano to more of a wide-ranging contralto. Her distinctive piano and open-tuned guitar compositions also grew more harmonically and rhythmically complex as she explored jazz, melding it with influences of rock and roll, R&B, classical music, and non-western beats. In the late 1970s, she began working closely with noted jazz musicians, among them Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Charles Mingus, who asked her to collaborate on his final recordings. She turned again toward pop, embraced electronic music, and engaged in political protest.

She is the sole producer credited on most of her albums, including all her work in the 1970s. A blunt critic of the music industry, she quit touring and released her 17th, and reportedly last, album of original songs in 2007. With roots in visual art, Mitchell designed her own album covers. She describes herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance". (source: Wikipedia)

Song List:

Side One

In France They Kiss On Mainstreet

The Jungle Line

Edith And The Kingpin

Don’t Interrupt The Sorrow

Side Two

Shades Of Scarlet Conquering

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

The Boho Dance

Harry’s House Centerpiece

Sweet Bird

Shadows And Light

The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the seventh studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1975. The first track, "In France They Kiss on Main Street", is a jazz-rock song about coming of age in a small town in the 1950s rock & roll era. (The song was released as the single from the album and reached number 66 on the Billboard charts.) "The Jungle Line" uses a field recording from Africa of the Drummers of Burundi (called 'warrior drums' in the credits), onto which are dubbed guitar, Moog synthesizer and the vocal line. The lyrics pay homage to the works of the French Post-Impressionist painter Henri Rousseau. Mitchell blends details of his works with imagery of modern city life, the music industry and the underground drug culture.

"Edith and the Kingpin" marks a return to jazz in a story of a gangster's new moll arriving in his home town. "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" is an acoustic guitar–based song with stream-of-consciousness lyrics, focused on women standing up to male dominance and proclaiming their own existence as individuals. "Shades of Scarlett Conquering" is an orchestral-based piece about a modern southern belle basing her life and self-image on the stereotypes of the Scarlett O'Hara character from Gone with the Wind. The title track, "The Hissing of Summer Lawns", is about a woman who is treated as part of her husband's portfolio.

"The Boho Dance" comments on people who feel that artists betray their artistic integrity for commercial success, with an ironic glance at those who said this of Mitchell herself and parallels Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word. "Harry's House/Centerpiece" concerns a failing marriage and is based on the jazz standard "Centerpiece" by Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jon Hendricks. "Sweet Bird" is a sparser acoustic track that is a slight return to Mitchell's so-called 'confessional' singer-songwriter style. Its lyrics indicate that it may also be a reference to Tennessee's William's Sweet Bird of Youth. (Mitchell was in her thirties when she recorded the album and may have been thinking that her sweet bird of youth had flown.) The final track is "Shadows and Light", consisting of many overdubs of her voice and an ARP String Machine (credited as an ARP-Farfisa on the album sleeve). (source: Wikipedia)

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