Joni Mitchell: Hits

Rating:
Summary: Mostly hits the spot
Review: I love Joni's music but the alternate tunings seemed to keep me away from playing it. So I finally decided to buy one of her songbooks. This book has most of her best songs and the guitar tab notations are quite good (with the exception of "Urge for Going"). It includes chord diagram boxes for guitar for most of the songs and tab notation for all of them. At the begining of each song it gives the guitar and dulcimer (for Carey and California) tunings. There are a few sparse notes throughout and all lyrics are listed under the song names at the begining of the book as well as under the music notation for each song.

Rating:
Summary: Mostly hits the spot
Review: There is another publication entitled JONI MITCHELL ANTHOLOGY which contains many more of Mitchell's songs. Here's the best part: "Anthology" is cheaper!

The only conceivable benefit of this book might be that it may contain better arrangements. It should also weigh a lot less than "Anthology."

This book gets 3 stars because the songs are good (contains "California," "Big Yellow Taxi," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides Now" and others) and I will also leave room for the possibility that these arrangements are not the same as those in the "Anthology" book.

Rating:
Summary: Pay More, Get Less?
Review: There is another publication entitled JONI MITCHELL ANTHOLOGY which contains many more of Mitchell's songs. Here's the best part: "Anthology" is cheaper!

The only conceivable benefit of this book might be that it may contain better arrangements. It should also weigh a lot less than "Anthology."

This book gets 3 stars because the songs are good (contains "California," "Big Yellow Taxi," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides Now" and others) and I will also leave room for the possibility that these arrangements are not the same as those in the "Anthology" book.