NIGHT RIDE HOME |

Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar, oboe, keyboards, percussion); Jeremy Lubbock (conductor); Brenda Russell, David Baerwald (vocals); Michael Landau (guitar); Bill Dillon (pedal steel guitar); Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone); Larry Klein (bass, percussion); Alex Acuna (percussion); Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Karen Peris (background vocals).
This deluxe package contains 4 photo collages by Joni Mitchell.
Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, oboe, piano, omnichord, keyboards, percussion); David Baerwald, Brenda Russell (vocals); Larry Klein (guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, percussion); Michael Landau, Bill Dillon (guitar); Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone); Vinnie Colaiuta (drums, snare drum); Alex Acu?a (percussion); Karen Peris (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Dan Marnien; Julie Last; Mike Shipley.
Recording information: A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA; One On One Studios; The Kiva.
Photographer: Joni Mitchell.
Unknown Contributor Role: Joni Mitchell.
Arranger: Jeremy Lubbock.
Released around the time that Seattle's grunge movement was exploding in full-blown angst, NIGHT RIDE HOME boasts a lost carnival of characters that wander through, seeming especially poignant. In the '60s when another angry, lost generation reigned, Mitchell's painterly portraits reflected the troubled times. More than two decades later, her songs mirror the mood swings of an aging generation no more sure of their footsteps than they were in their youth.
A quiet, restless album that evokes the electric stillness before a summer storm, NIGHT RIDE HOME looks back to Mitchell's jazzier '70s endeavors like COURT AND SPARK. Despite the album's softer turn, the fey warble of alto sax is not nearly as prominent (or intrusive) as on Mitchell's 1998 TAMING THE TIGER. "Come In From the Cold" is one of Mitchell's finest songs, a lilting memory play of adolescence, desire and mature revelation. The title track is a sultry love song that travels down a dark, back road, whereas "Nothing Can Be Done," featuring David Baerwald on vocals, is a churning acceptance of an affair gone sour. NIGHT RIDE HOME eloquently resurrects the past, but never hesitates to embrace the future.

• Released: 1991-03-05
• Format: CD
• Genre: Rock
• Format: CD
• Genre: ROCK
• Released: 1991-03-05