Christina Galisatus

Released by A&M in January of 1974, Court and Spark was created during a year-long period of writing and recording, during which Mitchell explored the blend of her folk music aesthetic with jazz influences, employing jazz artists Tom Scott, Larry Carlton, Joe Sample, and Chuck Findley in addition to rock contemporaries Robbie Robertson, David Crosby, and Graham Nash. The album reached #2 on the Billboard charts and eventually attained Double Platinum status. It was nominated for four GRAMMYs including Record of the Year for the single “Help Me,” winning for Mitchell and Scott’s arrangement on “Down to You,” and was named best album in the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Critics Poll in 1974, as well as ranking at #110 in Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.