Shadows and Light (Joni Mitchell album)

Shadows and Light
Live album by Joni Mitchell
Released	September 1980
Recorded	September 1979 Santa Barbara Bowl
Genre	Folk jazz, vocal jazz
Length	83:54
Label	Asylum
Producer	Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell chronology
Mingus (1979) Shadows and Light (1980) Wild Things Run Fast (1982)

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Shadows and Light is a 1980 live double album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was recorded at the Santa Barbara Bowl in September 1979 on Mitchell's Mingus tour. A film of the concert was also released on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joni Mitchell, except where indicated

1. "Introduction" – 1:51 (Included on LP and CD. Featured in VHS/DVD opening credits)
2. "In France They Kiss on Main Street" – 4:14
3. "Edith and the Kingpin" – 4:10
4. "Coyote" – 4:58
5. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" – 6:02 (Charles Mingus, lyrics by Mitchell)
6. "Jaco's Solo" (only on VHS/DVD) (Jaco Pastorius)
   • "The High and the Mighty"
   • "Third Stone from the Sun"
7. "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" – 4:37 (Mitchell, Charles Mingus)
8. "Amelia" – 6:40
9. "Pat's Solo" – 3:09 (Pat Metheny)
10. "Hejira" – 7:42
11. "Black Crow" – 3:52 (omitted from first CD release)
12. "Don's Solo" – 4:04 (omitted from VHS/DVD and first CD release) (Don Alias)
13. "Dreamland" – 4:40 (omitted from VHS/DVD)
14. "Free Man in Paris" – 3:23 (omitted from first CD release)
15. "Band Introduction" – 0:52
16. "Furry Sings the Blues" – 5:14 (DVD version and CD version were recorded on separate dates)
17. "Raised on Robbery" (only on VHS/DVD)
18. "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" – 2:53 (Frankie Lymon, Morris Levy)
19. "Shadows and Light" – 5:23
20. "God Must be a Boogie Man" – 5:02 (omitted from VHS/DVD)
21. "Woodstock" – 5:08 (omitted from VHS/DVD)

Personnel

• Joni Mitchell - electric guitar, vocals
• Pat Metheny - lead guitar
• Jaco Pastorius - fretless 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"
• Toller Cranston - skates

Technical

• Andy Johns - engineer
• Glen Cristensen - art direction, photograpy
• Joel Bernstein - photography

References