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On March 19, 1968, an amateur recording engineer set up his gear at Le Hibou, a coffeehouse in Ottawa, Canada. He taped two sets by Joni Mitchell, who was 24 at the time. That recording engineer, a Mitchell fan, was none other than Jimi Hendrix, who d played his own gigs a few blocks away. Hendrix s tapes were stolen, only to surface five decades later and get returned to Mitchell. His crystalline recording of The Dawntreader reveals a spellbinding performance just Mitchell and her guitar similar to what the world would hear just days later when her first album was released. One of Mitchell s most atmospheric songs, The Dawntreader unfolds in a dreamlike nautical setting of sunken treasure, mermaids and mysterious songs that the rigging makes. The unconventional guitar tunings, her self-described chords of inquiry, offer an orchestra s worth of color and texture in a song that, 53 years on, still possesses a singular haunting power.
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