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Night Ride Home
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Studio album by
Joni Mitchell
ReleasedFebruary 19, 1991
Recorded1989–1990
Studio A&M (Hollywood, California)
One on One (North Hollywood, California)
The Kiva (Encino, California)
Genre Adult alternative
Length51:43
Label Geffen
Producer Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein
Joni Mitchell chronology
Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm
(1988)		Night Ride Home
(1991)		 Turbulent Indigo
(1994)
Singles from Night Ride Home
  1. "Night Ride Home"
    Released: February 1991 (UK)
  2. "Come in from the Cold"
    Released: June 24, 1991
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Night Ride Home is the 14th album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1991. It was the last of four albums she recorded for Geffen Records.

Contents

Songs on the album include "Cherokee Louise" about a childhood friend who suffered sexual abuse, "The Windfall (Everything for Nothing)" about a maid who tried to sue Mitchell, and the retrospective single release "Come in from the Cold" about childhood and middle age. The title song "Night Ride Home" (originally titled "Fourth of July" and first performed during promotion for her previous album in 1988) was inspired by a moonlit night in Hawaii. [6] Though the album contained no charting singles, it received critical acclaim, and the track "Come in from the Cold" received airplay on AOR stations.

This was Mitchell's first album not to be distributed by the WEA family of labels. She had been signed to WEA's Asylum and Reprise labels in the past, and Warner Bros. Records had been the distributor for Geffen Records from 1980 to 1990. That year, Geffen was sold to MCA Music (now Universal Music Group), as a result, the album was distributed by Uni Distribution Corp. (the distribution arm of MCA Music), which also took over the rest of the Geffen catalogue.

A home video release, Come In from the Cold, was released the same year and features promo videos for five tracks from the album along with an interview with Mitchell discussing the inspiration behind them.

As of December 2007, the album had sold 238,000 copies in the US. [7]

Track listing

All music written by Joni Mitchell except "Nothing Can Be Done" by Larry Klein; all lyrics written by Mitchell except "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", based on "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats.

  1. "Night Ride Home" – 3:22
  2. "Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free)" – 5:25
  3. "Cherokee Louise" – 4:32
  4. "The Windfall (Everything for Nothing)" – 5:16
  5. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (based on a poem by W.B. Yeats) – 6:55
  6. "Come in from the Cold" – 7:31
  7. "Nothing Can Be Done" – 4:54
  8. "The Only Joy in Town" – 5:12
  9. "Ray's Dad's Cadillac" – 4:33
  10. "Two Grey Rooms" – 3:58

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Night Ride Home
Chart (1991)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [8] 55
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [9] 30
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [10] 75
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [11] 40
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [12] 43
UK Albums (OCC) [13] 25
US Billboard 200 [14] 41
US Cash Box Top 100 Albums [15] 29
European Albums ( Eurotipsheet ) [16] 69

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