“Night Ride Home” by Joni Mitchell

"Night Ride Home" gives its name to the album Joni Mitchell released in 1991, her fourteenth, but the song is older than the record: it started out as "Fourth of July", and she was already playing it in 1988 while promoting the album before. A moonlit night in Hawaii set it off.

The credits keep it to a small circle: Mitchell on guitar and vocal, Larry Klein on bass and percussion, Alex Acuña adding more percussion and Bill Dillon on pedal steel. Mitchell and Klein produced it together, Dan Marnien engineered and Julie Last mixed. It closed out her run of four albums for Geffen, and though nothing from the record charted as a single, the album won her critical acclaim.

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