“Black Crow” by Joni Mitchell

"Black Crow" comes from Hejira, the album Joni Mitchell released on Asylum in 1976, and it's a record made out of the road: she wrote its songs while traveling constantly through late 1975 and into 1976, and they spill out long, dense and sprawling, the way the miles do.

Mitchell sings and plays guitar here, Larry Carlton adds guitar of his own, and Jaco Pastorius, the jazz-leaning bassist whose fretless lines run all through Hejira, prowls underneath. Mitchell produced it herself; Henry Lewy recorded it, with Steve Katz assisting, and mixed it with her.

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