Joni Mitchel - Shine (2007)

Joni Mitchel - Shine (2007)

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Joni Mitchel - Shine

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"One Week Last Summer" – 4:59

This song won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

"This Place" – 3:54

In a recent interview, Mitchell referred to a "second guitar song [inspired when] they decided to whittle down this mountain behind my sanctuary and sell it to California as gravel for McMansions."

"If I Had a Heart" – 4:04

"If I Had a Heart, I'd Cry" is a reaction to the state of the environment and what Mitchell called the current "holy war". In February 2007, The New York Times described the song as "one of the most haunting melodies she has ever written". Of the impetus that inspired her to write the song, Mitchell explained, "My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. I can't cry about it. In a way I'm inoculated. I've suffered this pain for so long. ...The West has packed the whole world on a runaway train. We are on the road to extincting ourselves as a species."

"Hana" – 3:43

"Bad Dreams" – 5:41

"Bad Dreams" was inspired by a comment Mitchell's grandson made at the age of three: "Bad dreams are good, in the great plan." In a March 2007 BBC Radio 2 interview with Amanda Ghost, the singer jokingly said she'd promised to "cut him in" on the song's profits.

"Bad Dreams Are Good" lyrics appeared as a poem in The New Yorker, September 17, 2007.

"Big Yellow Taxi (2007)" – 2:47

In March 2007, The Guardian reported that Shine will feature a "new version" of Mitchell's 1970 environmentally-themed hit single.

"Night of the Iguana" – 4:38

Based upon the play The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams.

"Strong and Wrong" – 4:04

"Shine" – 7:29

The Globe and Mail described this song as "a lush lullaby for the soul."

Lyric makes reference to the "Reverend Pearson" (Carlton Pearson).

"If" – 5:32

Based on the 19th-century poem IF—, by Rudyard Kipling, this song is a jazz-inflected composition.

Joni Mitchel Musicians

Joni Mitchell – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards

Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar

Larry Klein – bass guitar, double bass

Brian Blade – drums

Bob Sheppard – alto and soprano saxophone

Paulinho Da Costa – percussion on "Hana"

James Taylor – acoustic guitar on "Shine"

Shine is the 19th and most recent studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and was released on September 25, 2007 by Hear Music. It is Mitchell's first album of new songs since Taming the Tiger (1998).

In the United States, the album sold about 40,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. 14 on the Billboard 200 chart, this was Mitchell's best peak position in America since Hejira (1976). Shine peaked at No. 36 in the UK chart, making it Mitchell's first Top 40 album in the UK since 1991. In its first week on sale, Shine sold around 60,000 copies worldwide. As of February 2008, the album has sold 372,000 copies in United States.