Joni Mitchell - Hejira [1975-1979 Acoustic Demos, Live and Alternate Takes]

📜​ Info 📜 Acoustic version of her 1976 album "Hejira", if you love Mitchell's early music yet had trouble with her jazzier albums, this is a good opportunity to hear this excellent album done in her earlier acoustic style. Musicians

• Joni Mitchell – electric guitar, vocals
• Jaco Pastorius– electric bass (Fender Jazz)
• Don Alias– drums, percussion
• Lyle Mays– electric piano (Rhodes), synthesizer (Oberheim FVS-1)
• Michael Brecker– saxophones
• The Persuasions– backing vocals on "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" and "Shadows and Light"
• Pat Metheny– lead guitar
• Lyle Mays– electric piano (Rhodes), synthesizer (Oberheim FVS-1) Keyboardist for the Pat Metheny Group

📜​ Tracks[Info] ​📜 01. Coyote (Unreleased, Rolling Thunder Revue, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 12-8-1975) 02. Amelia (Demo) 03. Furry Sings the Blues (Demo) 04. A Strange Boy (Demo) 05. Traveling (Hejira) (Demo) 06. Song for Sharon (Live at Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX, 5-16-1976) 07. Black Crow (Demo) 08. Blue Motel Room (Demo) 09. Refuge of the Roads (Early Mix with Horns) 10. Jericho (Rehearsal with Pat Metheny) (SIR Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 7-20-1979) 11. Help Me (Rehearsal with Pat Metheny) (SIR Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 7-28-1979)