A long-unreleased Joni Mitchell demo recording of the track You Turn Me On I’m A Radio, featuring a performance by fellow Canadian musician Neil Young, is finally seeing the light of day more than 50 years after it was made.
The demo recording is a teaser for Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. Volume 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
A long-unreleased demo recording by Joni Mitchell featuring a performance by fellow Canadian musician Neil Young is finally seeing the light of day.
An early version of the folk singer-songwriter title more than 50 years after its creation You turn me on, I’m a radio was issued with Young playing electric guitar and harmonica.
The song is a teaser for Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. Volume 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)which comes out on Friday.
Mitchell’s archive album documents a formative four-year period of her career surrounding the release of her albums For the roses, Court and spark And The rustling of the summer grass.
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The demo for You turn me on, I’m a radio came about when the two Canadian legends worked together in mid-April 1972 while Mitchell attended the recording sessions for what became For the roses at Wally Heider Studios in Hollywood.
The final version of the song eventually became the first single from For the roses and one of Mitchell’s first Billboard chart hits.
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