Joni Mitchell Archive Volume 1 - The Early Years (1963 - 1967) — Review 🔗 🎶 🎵 💿 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 💙

From a 1963 version of “Molly Malone” to early live recordings of future classics like “Both Sides Now” and “Little Green,” this five-disc boxset is a joyous journey through time to the earliest stirrings of one of the true greats of the popular song

For true fans the real treasure may be found on disc one. Joni’s earliest recording, it’s a 1963 audition tape recorded at local radio station CFQC in 1963 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Here is the 18-year-old Joan Anderson of Fort Macleod armed with her prized €36 ukulele, singing versions of folk standards such as “House of The Rising Sun,” a gambolling “Nancy Whiskey,” an earthy ode to moonshining called “Copper Kettle,” and an extra sweet and sorrowful take on “Molly Malone.”