Love Has Many Faces

CD1 ACT 1 - BiRTH OF ROCK 'N'ROLL DAYS

1. In France They Kiss on Main Street
2. Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac
3. You Turn Me On I’m A Radio
4. Harlem in Havana
5. Car on a Hill
6. Dancin’ Clown
7. River
8. Chinese Café/Unchained Melody
9. Harry’s House/Centerpiece
10. Shades of Scarlett Conquering
11. Number One
12. The Windfall (Everything for Nothing)
13. Come In From The Cold

CD2 ACT 2 - THE LIGHT IS HARD TO FIND

1. Court and Spark
2. Not To Blame
3. Nothing Can Be Done
4. Comes Love
5. Trouble Child
6. No Apologies
7. Moon at the Window
8. Blue
9. Tax Free
10. The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey
11. Hana
12. Hejira
13. Stay in Touch
14. Night Ride Home

CD3 ACT 3 - LOVE HAS MANY FACES

1. You’re My Thrill
2. The Crazy Cries of Love
3. Love Puts on a New Face
4. Borderline
5. A Strange Boy
6. You Dream Flat Tires
7. Love
8. All I Want
9. Be Cool
10. Yvette In English
11. Just Like This Train
12. Carey
13. The Only Joy in Town

CD4 ACT 4 - IF YOU WANT ME I'LL BE IN THE BAR

1. Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
2. Two Grey Rooms
3. God Must Be a Boogie Man
4. Down to You
5. A Case of You
6. The Last Tim I Saw Richard
7. Raised on Robbery
8. Sweet Sucker Dance
9. Lakota
10. Cool Water
11. Amelia
12. Both Sides Now
13. My Best To You

Joni Mitchell’s new four-disc boxed set LOVE HAS MANY FACES was first conceived as the music to a ballet about love. But after spending 18 months trying to distill everything she’d written about love—and the lack of it—down to a single disc, the influential singer-songwriter abandoned the ballet. “I wanted the music to lead and feel like a total work—a new work. No matter what I did, though, at that length, it remained merely a collection of songs,” she writes in the set’s liner notes.

Undaunted, Mitchell did not give up. Instead, she continued to sequence her songs, determined to prove to herself that what she was after was possible. After two years, she had created a four-act ballet based on the 53 songs that make up this inspiring collection. “I am a painter who writes songs. My songs are very visual. The words create scenes… What I have done here is to gather some of these scenes (like a documentary filmmaker) and by juxtaposition, edit them into a whole new work,” the artist writes.

It truly is an artist-curated collection. Mitchell selected the songs from 40 years of recording.  She designed the package. The package resembles a book and contains 53 lyrical poems, six new paintings, and an autobiographical text illuminating her recording process. It is funny, mystical, and informative.

Mitchell organized the music into different thematic acts, which allowed her songs to interact with one another in a whole new way. The process, she says, was a lot like making a film. “I had forty years of footage to review. Then, suddenly, scenes began to hook up. Then series began to form. Instead of it being an emotional roller coaster ride as it was before—crammed into one disc—themes began to develop. Moods sustained. I was getting there…When this long editorial process (two years) finally came to rest, I had four ballets or a four-act ballet—a quartet. I also had a box set.”