Travelogue (Joni Mitchell album)

Infobox Album
Name = Travelogue
Type = Album
Artist = Joni Mitchell


Background = Orange
Released = November 19, 2002
Recorded = 2002
Genre = Jazz
Length = 2:07:08
Label = Nonesuch
Producer = Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zl508qmzbtb4 link]
*Review-Christgau|dud|album=11798
*"Rolling Stone" rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jonimitchell/albums/album/252133/review/5946111/travelogue link]
Last album = "Both Sides Now"
(2000)
This album = "Travelogue"
(2002)
Next album = "The Beginning of Survival"
(2004)

"Travelogue" is a 2002 double album by Joni Mitchell featuring orchestral re-recordings of songs from throughout her career. It is the follow-up to 2000's "Both Sides Now" which had a similar format. Upon release Mitchell announced that it would be her last album, but later revealed work on a new studio album.

As of December 2007, the two-disc set has sold 72,000 copies in the US.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joni Mitchell; except where indicated

Disc 1

# "Otis and Marlena" – 3:54
# "Amelia" – 6:48
# "You Dream Flat Tires" – 3:48
# "Love" – 5:40
# "Woodstock" – 5:56
# "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" – 7:11 (Based on a poem by W. B. Yeats)
# "Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune)" – 5:22
# "The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)" – 7:09
# "For the Roses" – 7:28
# "Trouble Child" – 5:02
# "God Must Be a Boogie Man" – 3:56

Disc 2

# "Be Cool" – 5:09
# "Just Like This Train" – 5:04
# "Sex Kills" – 3:57
# "Refuge of the Roads" – 7:56
# "Hejira" – 6:47
# "Chinese Café / Unchained Melody" – 5:41 (Alex North, Hy Zaret)
# "Cherokee Louise" – 6:00
# "The Dawntreader" – 5:38
# "The Last Time I Saw Richard" – 4:58
# "Borderline" – 6:23
# "The Circle Game" – 6:50

Personnel

Joni Mitchell - vocals
*Larry Klein - bass, musical direction
*Herbie Hancock - piano
*Billy Preston - Hammond B3 organ
*Chuck Berghofer - double bass
*Paulinho Da Costa - percussion
*Brian Blade - drums
*Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone
*Plas Johnson - tenor saxophone
*Kenny Wheeler - flugelhorn
**Gavyn Wright - orchestra leader
**Vince Mendoza - conductor, arrangement