JONI MITCHELL : LOS ANGELES 1974

1. Introduction
2. This Flight Tonight
3. You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio
4. Free Man in Paris
5. Same Situation
6. Just Like This Train
7. Rainy Night House
8. Woodstock
9. Cactus Tree
10. Big Yellow Taxi
11. People's Parties
12. All I Want
13. A Case of You
14. For the Roses
15. Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
16. Blue
17. For Free
18. Trouble Child
19. Help Me
20. Car on a Hill

Label : no label

Venue : Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, Calfirnia, USA

Recording Date : March 3, 1974

Length : 91:40

Quality : Soundboard Recording (A+)

Review : This concert is officialy released on "Archives, Vol. 3 :The Asylum Years (1972-1957)". Joni played 4 more songs which were not released. An audience recording in moderate quality exists.

Review (Pitchfork) : The second live concert is a March 3, 1974 show at Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, backed by the Court and Spark band. Some of its setlist is familiar from Miles of Aisles, which documented the same tour. The highlights are songs from earlier albums that didn’t make that official live release, reworked with arrangements that are bigger and more energetic than their presentation on Mitchell’s stark first few albums. Set opener “This Flight Tonight” is rendered as rollicking rock’n’roll, reminiscent of the Grateful Dead, a world away from its intimate solo delivery on Blue and at the Carnegie Hall show, which it also opens. Ladies of the Canyon deep cut “Rainy Night House” gets a suitably sultry reimagining, the instrumentalists slow-burning like the world’s greatest cocktail lounge act (complete with jazz flute) and Mitchell crooning and belting with newfound bravura. She hadn’t lost any of the depth of her early years, but now she was complementing it with the showmanship of a professional entertainer.