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Portions posted at 〕 }} ''Miles of Aisles'' is the seventh album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1974 on Asylum Records. It is her first live album, a double documenting her concerts in support of the ''Court and Spark'' album with her backing band for the tour, the L.A. Express. It reached #2 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and became one of her biggest-selling records, certified a gold record by the RIAA.〔(RIAA database retrieved 13 August 2014 )〕 ==Content== This was Mitchell's first tour with backing musicians; prior to this she had generally performed solo, and had never organized a tour with a band.〔(Joni Mitchell website Chronology retrieved 13 August 2014 )〕 She hired an already existing group, the jazz fusion band L.A. Express, members of which had appeared on her previous studio album, ''Court and Spark'', the biggest commercial success of her career. A track from this live album, "Big Yellow Taxi," was released as a single. Four years after the studio version had stalled at #67 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 as a single, this live version reached #24 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 charts, becoming Mitchell's fourth Top 40 hit single and third in a row. The album contains many of her best-known songs, but only one track derived from her recent album and neither of its two hit singles, "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris." All tracks except two were recorded at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, August 14 to 17, 1974. "Cactus Tree" was recorded at the Los Angeles Music Center on March 4, and "Real Good for Free" at the Berkeley Community Theater on March 2. The cover photo was taken at the Pine Knob Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan. The album was remastered and reissued on a single compact disc on March 21, 2000, utilizing the Pacific Microsonics HDCD process. This was part of the series reissuing her entire catalogue on the Reprise and Asylum labels through 1980. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miles of Aisles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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