Joni Mitchel - Hejira (1976)

Joni Mitchel - Hejira (1976)

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Joni Mitchel - Hejira

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Side one

"Coyote" – 5:01

"Amelia" – 6:01

"Furry Sings the Blues" – 5:07

"A Strange Boy" – 4:15

"Hejira" – 6:42

Side two

"Song for Sharon" – 8:40

"Black Crow" – 4:22

"Blue Motel Room" – 5:04

"Refuge of the Roads" – 6:42

Joni Mitchel Musicians

Joni Mitchell – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

Chuck Findley, Tom Scott – horns (on "Refuge of the Roads")

Abe Most – clarinet (on "Hejira")

Neil Young – harmonica (on "Furry Sings the Blues")

Victor Feldman – vibraphone (on "Amelia")

Larry Carlton – electric guitar (on "Amelia", "A Strange Boy" and "Black Crow"); acoustic guitar (on "Blue Motel Room")

Max Bennett – bass guitar (on "Furry Sings the Blues" and "Song for Sharon")

Jaco Pastorius – fretless bass (on "Coyote", "Hejira", "Black Crow" and "Refuge of the Roads")

Chuck Domanico – double bass (on "Blue Motel Room")

John Guerin – drums (on "Furry Sings the Blues", "Song for Sharon", "Blue Motel Room" and "Refuge of the Roads")

Bobbye Hall – percussion (on "Coyote", "A Strange Boy" and "Hejira")

Henry Lewy – production, recording, mixing

Steve Katz – assistant production, mixing

Keith Williamson – art direction

Joel Bernstein, Norman Seeff – photography

Hejira is the 8th studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. The songs on the album were written during a series of road trips in 1975 and 1976, and reflect events that occurred during those trips, including several romantic relationships she had at the time. Characterized by lyrically dense, sprawling songs, as well as the overdubbed fretless bass playing of Jaco Pastorius (whom Mitchell had just met), Hejira continued the musician's journey beyond her pop records towards the freer, jazz inspired music she would implement on later recordings. Some of the songs were written while Mitchell traveled as a member of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, and she performed the album's opening track with The Band at their final concert (later released as Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz).