Throughout the latter half of the seventies, Joni Mitchell continued to creatively break ground with her fearless and fluid exploration of jazz. Rather than tread the same path, she challenged and reinvented her style with a folk fusion like no other. Ascending to an unrivalled sonic peak, this innovative sound took shape across the gold-certified Hejira, the gold-certified double-LP Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, her collaboration with Charles Mingus entitled Mingus, and live album Shadows and Light. Channelling the thrill and excitement of these records, she delves even further into this season on Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years, out now via Rhino Records. It stands out as the 12th release by the Joni Mitchell Archives and extends Rhino’s ongoing, GRAMMY-winning series ex...