Chris Willman Music WriterAmong music superstars, Joni Mitchell is among the few whose vaults have remained largely unmined for previously unheard vintage material.
That changes in a big way with the Oct. 30 release of “Archives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967),” a boxed set that will include six hours of material from the years preceding her debut album in 1968.As the title would indicate, further volumes are being promised by Rhino to come out over the next few years, with Mitchell very much at the helm in all the projects.“Vol.
1” will arrive as a five-CD set as well as a digital collection. Included in the set are 29 original Mitchell compositions that have never before seen the light of day in any vocal form.
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