or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
43 used & new from £3.71
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Available to Download Now
 
Buy the MP3 album for £4.99
  
 
 
 
Night Ride Home
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

Night Ride Home

~ Joni Mitchell
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
Price: £4.98 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, February 11? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
37 new from £3.71 4 used from £4.13 2 collectible from £10.00
Buy the MP3 album for £4.99 at the Amazon MP3 Downloads store.

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

Night Ride Home + Turbulent Indigo + Taming the Tiger
Price For All Three: £16.94

Show availability and delivery details

  • This item: Night Ride Home ~ Joni Mitchell

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Turbulent Indigo ~ Joni Mitchell

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Taming the Tiger ~ Joni Mitchell

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Turbulent Indigo

Turbulent Indigo

~ Joni Mitchell
4.8 out of 5 stars (6)  £5.78
Taming the Tiger

Taming the Tiger

~ Joni Mitchell
4.8 out of 5 stars (4)  £6.18
Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm

Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm

~ Joni Mitchell
4.0 out of 5 stars (5)  £4.98
Wild Things Run Fast

Wild Things Run Fast

~ Joni Mitchell
4.2 out of 5 stars (5)  £5.78
Dog Eat Dog

Dog Eat Dog

~ Joni Mitchell
4.5 out of 5 stars (6)  £3.48
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Audio CD (20 Mar 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B000000ORX
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 45,302 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
   Joni Mitchell CDs opens new browser window
www.cdconnection.com  -  Huge selection of Joni Mitchell CDs in stock at discount prices!
  
 

Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s

Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or view the MP3 Album.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Night Ride Home 3:24£0.69
Listen  2. Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free) 5:25£0.69
Listen  3. Cherokee Louise 4:32£0.69
Listen  4. The Windfall (Everything For Nothing) 5:15£0.69
Listen  5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem 6:55£0.69
Listen  6. Come In From The Cold 7:31£0.69
Listen  7. Nothing Can Be Done 4:53£0.69
Listen  8. The Only Joy In Town 5:13£0.69
Listen  9. Ray's Dad's Cadillac 4:34£0.69
Listen10. Two Grey Rooms 3:59£0.69

Product Description

CD Description

Released around the time that Seattle's grunge movement wasexploding in full-blown angst, NIGHT RIDE HOME boasts a lost carnival of characters that wander through, seeming especially poignant. In the '60s when another angry, lost generation reigned, Mitchell's painterly portraits reflected the troubled times. More than two decades later, her songs mirror the mood swings of an ageing generation no more sure of theirfootsteps than they were in their youth.
A quiet, restless album that evokes the electric stillness before a summer storm, NIGHT RIDE HOME looks back to Mitchell's jazzier '70sendeavors like COURT AND SPARK. Despite the album's softer turn, the fey warble of alto sax is not nearly as prominent (or intrusive) as on Mitchell's 1998 TAMING THE TIGER. "ComeIn From the Cold" is one of Mitchell's finest songs, a lilting memory play of adolescence, desire and mature revelation. The title track is a sultry love song that travels down a dark, back road, whereas "Nothing Can Be Done", featuring David Baerwald on vocals, is a churning acceptance of an affair gone sour. NIGHT RIDE HOME eloquently resurrects the past,but never hesitates to embrace the future.

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
folk music
folk
womens music
joni mitchell
jazzy rock
brenda russell
amazing guitar

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

7 Reviews
5 star:
 (3)
4 star:
 (3)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.3 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Accomplished and elegant, 25 Nov 2002
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
(TOP 10 REVIEWER)   
Here JM displays a new-found sense of balance and harmony in her life and music. Night Ride Home proves that the creative embers were glowing brightly again. Her languid voice is accorded poetic justice by the sparse backing on themes eternal. Religious symbolism surfaces on Passion Play and Slouching Towards Bethlehem - the latter an adaptation of a Yeats poem. The topic of growing old, gracefully treated in Nothing Can Be Done and Come In From The Cold, is brilliantly balanced by the teenage romance of Ray's Dad's Cadillac, in which Joni puts one over Rickie Lee Jones, one of her followers. Savour these lines: "Ray's dad teaches maths/I'm a dunce, a decimal in his class/when it comes to mathematics/I get static in the attic." Well this is music - not maths - and Joni gets five out of five for composition and performance.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, the worthy successor to 'Hejira', 19 July 2004
By Timothy Hooper - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   
For some, Joni Mitchell lost the plot with 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns', when she moved decisively from first-person folk to narrating third-person tales in jazz and rock idioms. However, the change brought along a whole world of wonders, from the cool urban tales of life in the well heeled suburbs of L.A. on 'Hissing' through 'Hejira's' dreamscape of travel and escape and 'Don Juan' and 'Mingus'' deep explorations of jazz.

Then , in the 80s it all went terribly wrong. Joni released a succession of bland, poorly conceived albums seemingly aimed squarely at getting her a hit. 'Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm', 'Dog eat dog', 'Wild Things Run Fast' - each has its occasional flashes of brilliance but all were mired in squealing rock guitars, ill-judged cameo appearances from the likes of Billy Idol and Thomas Dolby and a general lack of warmth and sincerity.

All of a sudden , in 1991, she released 'Night Ride Home' and it was a revelation. The melody was there, the lyrical genius had returned and best of all, the rich subtlety of the arrangements was back. Much of this was probably due to the influence of her then husband Larry Klein, who seems to have helped Mitchell find her muse again.

There are no duff tracks, and indeed most are creative peaks, but to highlight a few, 'Cherokee Louise' is a heartbreaking tale of child abuse and runaways in a frighteningly adult city set to the most lilting and seductive melody Mitchell had written for years. 'Two Grey Rooms' is a cool, delicately orchestrated study of obsessional love. 'Ray's Dad's Cadillac' is a simply delightful evocation of 1950s teenage love and 'The Only Joy In Town' is a sunlit dance through Rome in pursuit of an idealised love. The highlight though has to be Mitchell's setting of W B Yeats 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem'. The Irish mystic's apocalyptic retelling of the second coming is well served by Joni's arrangement and dark, mysterious melody.

Since 'Night Ride Home' Joni has regained her confidence and has continued to release a string of quality albums, but this one remains her late peak and is an essential purchase.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a minor joni classic, 6 Aug 2002
If you have never listened to joni buy blue or her "hits" collection. If you know and love joni then search hard to add this to your collection. This album represents a return to her folk routes after her excursions into 80s pop with Dog Eat Dog and Chalkmark...This album contains several stand out tracks that rival her early work such as the superb night ride home.

The album also has one advantage over the early stuff for the person who has several of the early albums. This is a different older joni from the person singing about parking lots and cactus trees. She has lost nothing of her song writing ability and the music is tuneful and effective. This is not as intense as blue but some might few this as no bad thing. This album should be much more available than it is at present.

Not as consistant as blue or For the Roses this is still an excellent album for the person who either wants something more positive than blue or generally cannot get enough of Joni's faboulas music

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars A return to form for Joni
Night Ride Home is definately a return to form for Joni after the horrible 80s. With the greatest exception of "Chinese Cafe" she failed to record anything memorable in the 1980s,... Read more
Published 8 months ago by A rhythm person

4.0 out of 5 stars Return To Form For Joni
Perhaps I was biased towards this album by the birth of my son in 1991, but I used to sing these songs repeatedly to him in every effort to lull him towards sleep. Read more
Published on 7 July 2007 by pikeyboy

3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant enough, but not a classic
If you are new to Joni Mitchell, don't start here .. I'd rate any of her first 6 albums ('Song to a Seagull' through 'Court and Spark') ahead of this. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2004 by D. Storey

5.0 out of 5 stars Joni Mitchells first collection of the 90s
This album from 1991 saw Joni Mitchell and her ex-husband Larry Klein in the producer's chair for her first release in the 90's. Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2004 by Milt Ingarfield

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Night Ride Home
74% buy the item featured on this page:
Night Ride Home 4.3 out of 5 stars (7)
£4.98
Song To A Seagull
9% buy
Song To A Seagull 4.6 out of 5 stars (7)
£4.98
Turbulent Indigo
6% buy
Turbulent Indigo 4.8 out of 5 stars (6)
£5.78
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
6% buy
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter 4.3 out of 5 stars (18)
£5.58
Explore similar items

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject






i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.