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Joni Mitchell Takes Shine to Starbucks
Joni Mitchell is now the lady of the coffee chain.
The folksinger has followed in Paul McCartney's footsteps and signed with Hear Music, the label formed by Starbucks and Concord Music Group.
Her upcoming album, Shine, featuring her first collection of new material since 1998, will be released on Sept. 25. It will be the second release for the fledgling label, following McCartney's Memory Almost Full.
"I am thrilled to be able to work with the Hear Music label on my new CD," Mitchell said in a statement. "Starbucks and Concord Music Group are joining me in releasing a project which has enabled me to appreciate what I loved about making music in the first place. I am very grateful to them."
Mitchell, 63, described her new album as "as serious a work as I’ve ever done," with many of the lyrics reflecting her social consciousness and concerns about the environment.
She penned nine out of 10 songs on the album—the 10th being an adaptation of her favorite poem by Rudyard Kipling.
"Joni's voice, both in the physical and lyrical sense, is as powerful as ever," Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, said in a statement. "In addition to her extraordinary songwriting ability, she is a Renaissance artist in the every sense and we are honored to release this timely and exceptionally moving work."
Mitchell, a five-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, released her first album, Song to a Seagull, in 1968. Her fourth album, 1971's Blue, was named one of the 100 greatest albums of all time by Time magazine in 2006.
Earlier this year, the singer served as an advisor to The Fiddle and the Drum, a ballet based on her music that debuted in her native Canada in February. This fall, she is planning a rare exhibition of her paintings in New York.
Having signed two artists whose early albums were released during the days of the record player, Hear Music continues to seek a mixture of new and established talent to add to its roster. The label plans to sign nine more artists by the end of 2008.
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