Entertainment Weekly has a review of Travelogue which reads: "Joni Mitchell, Travelogue, (Nonesuch) It seemed like a bad idea at the time, Mitchell dragging 22 catalog songs into the orchestra pit, a conceit usually favored by artistes like the Moody Blues. But the miracle is that Vince Mendoza's symphonic arrangements sometimes place Mitchell's alto in even more intimate climes than the scaled-back settings that surrounded her seminal soprano. (Bonus points for juxtaposing "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" with the trudge to "Woodstock.") A - "
This on a page of 7 other reviews, none rising above a grade of B+. Our Joan goes to the head of the class again! (And please tell me why, when BSN came out, it was, 'oh, why isn't she doing her material?' and now that she is doing her material, she's "conceited.") Lindsay
