Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (1974)

Before Christmas 1973, a single, "Raised on Robbery", was released and the following January, the album Court and Spark was released. In March, the single "Help Me" was launched and became Joni's first and only Top 10 single; it peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the first week of June.

The album went all the way to #2 on the Billboard album charts and stayed there for four weeks. (Mitchell never reached the top spot on that list during her whole career.) It was knocked off the top spot by three #1 albums - in order Bob Dylan's Planet Waves, Barbra Streisand's The Way We Were and John Denver's Greatest Hits. Court and Spark, however, reached #1 in the album charts of the other two most important music magazines aside from Billboard; it reached the top spot of Record World for one week on March 9, 1974 and the summit of Cashbox the following week, where it also remained for one week.

* Joni Mitchell - Vocals, including background; acoustic guitar; piano; clavinet on "Down to You"
* John Guerin - Drums and percussion
* Wilton Felder - Bass
* Max Bennett - Bass on "Trouble Child"
* Jim Hughart - Bass on "People's Parties" and "Free Man in Paris"
* Milt Holland - Chimes on "Court and Spark"
* Tom Scott - Woodwinds and reeds
* Chuck Findley - Trumpet on "Twisted" and "Trouble Child"
* Joe Sample - Electric piano, clavinet on "Raised on Robbery".
* David Crosby - Background vocals on "Free Man in Paris" and "Down to You"
* Graham Nash - Background vocals on "Free Man in Paris"
* Susan Webb - Background vocals on "Down to You"
* Larry Carlton - Electric guitar
* Wayne Perkins - Electric guitar on "Car on a Hill"
* Dennis Budimir - Electric guitar on "Trouble Child"
* Robbie Robertson - Electric guitar on "Raised on Robbery"
* Jose Feliciano - Electric guitar on "Free Man in Paris"
* Cheech Marin - Background voice on "Twisted"
* Tommy Chong - Background voice on "Twisted"

Tracklist:
01. "Court and Spark" – 2:46
02. "Help Me" – 3:22
03. "Free Man in Paris" – 3:02
04. "People's Parties" – 2:15
05. "Same Situation" – 2:57
06. "Car on a Hill" – 3:02
07. "Down to You" – 5:38
08. "Just Like this Train" – 4:24
09. "Raised on Robbery" – 3:06
10. "Trouble Child" – 4:00
11 . "Twisted" – 2:21 (Originally performed by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)

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