>From this week's Entertainment Weekly: JONI MITCHELL - Travelogue
(Nonesuch) It seemed like a bad idea at the time, Mitchell dragging 22 catalog songs into the orchestra pit, a conceit usually favored by artistes like the Moody Blues. But the miracle is that Vince Mendoza's symphonic arrangements sometimes place Mitchell's alto in even more intimate climes than the scaled-back settings that surrounded her seminal soprano. (Bonus points for juxtaposing "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" with the trudge to "Woodstock".) And her overall grade: an A-! (A grade not often bestowed on new releases by the EW reviewers.) Jenny Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site
