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Night Ride Home follows Mitchell's 1988 Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm and comes on the heels, or paws, of her 1985 Dog Eat Dog, an intensely inward effort full of dank social speculation whose lack of wide acceptance is still a bit irksome to the singer-composer. "It...
If music is, as Mitchell defines it, "a diagram of emotion," then Night Ride Home is a sort of filling-station road map of the heart. The 10 songs, | including an adaptation of Yeats' The Second Coming called Slouching Towards Bethlehem, represent alternate routes to the kind of altered state...
All the musicians on the record -- including Mitchell's husband of eight years, bass player Larry Klein -- have some jazz background. They know, as Mitchell puts it, "how to see around corners." They can lend her delicate rhythms a strong foundation without blowing them away. Mitchell's own prominent acoustic...
Not just in music either. Mitchell, 47, has an exhibition of paintings traveling in Europe, and her photographs adorn the cover of Night Ride Home. She prefers to stay off the road -- it's been eight years since her last tour -- and likes to work in the deep night because...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell