Joni Mitchell Signs with Starbucks Label
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From the "Guardian":http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2134368,00.html
Hear Music, the record label launched this year by coffee chain Starbucks, has announced that Joni Mitchell has come out of singer-songwriter retirement and signed to the label.Mitchell is to release Shine - her first album of original material in nearly a decade - in September through Starbucks stores. It's likely to be positioned next to Paul McCartney's recent Hear Music release, Memory Almost Full, and just below the skinny blueberry muffins.It was Mitchell's personal experience of working with Starbucks on a 2005 Artists' Choice compilation album that helped persuade her to sign; the relatively healthy sales of Memory Almost Full - nearly half a million copies sold in the US to date - would not have harmed negotiations.And according to the "AP":http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/25/arts/NA-A-E-MUS-US-Starbucks-Mitchell.phpMitchell wrote nine of the 10 songs on "Shine," the exception being an adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling poem "If."She described it as "as serious a work as I've ever done" with some dark lyrics.The album will be released in the US and Canada on 25 September. Other countries can pick up a copy during that same week.I'm still not crazy about their coffee.
Hear Music, the record label launched this year by coffee chain Starbucks, has announced that Joni Mitchell has come out of singer-songwriter retirement and signed to the label.Mitchell is to release Shine - her first album of original material in nearly a decade - in September through Starbucks stores. It's likely to be positioned next to Paul McCartney's recent Hear Music release, Memory Almost Full, and just below the skinny blueberry muffins.It was Mitchell's personal experience of working with Starbucks on a 2005 Artists' Choice compilation album that helped persuade her to sign; the relatively healthy sales of Memory Almost Full - nearly half a million copies sold in the US to date - would not have harmed negotiations.And according to the "AP":http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/25/arts/NA-A-E-MUS-US-Starbucks-Mitchell.phpMitchell wrote nine of the 10 songs on "Shine," the exception being an adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling poem "If."She described it as "as serious a work as I've ever done" with some dark lyrics.The album will be released in the US and Canada on 25 September. Other countries can pick up a copy during that same week.I'm still not crazy about their coffee.
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