Legendary singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell will be the next artist signed to the newly formed label- Hear Music as it will release Shine, a 10-song collection which follows Paul McCartney’s “Memory Almost Full” as the second album released on the label. Shine will be available on Saturday September 22 in both traditional retailers and Starbucks Company-operated locations. 

“I am thrilled to be able to work with the Hear Music label on my new CD,” said Mitchell. “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 has also described this album as “as serious a work as I’ve ever done”.

Born out of a burst of creative energy, Shine is one of three new artistic endeavors launched by Mitchell this year.  The first, “The Fiddle and the Drum,” a ballet based on Mitchell's music, debuted with the Alberta Ballet in Calgary earlier this year with Mitchell serving as co-creator and artistic director.  The second is a politically charged visual art exhibit by Mitchell that will debut in New York in the fall.

Two songs included on Shine, “If” (based Mitchell's favorite poem by Rudyard Kipling) and “If I Had a Heart,” were featured in the “The Fiddle and The Drum" when it premiered on February 8, 2007. It was then that The New York Times described Mitchell's “If I Had a Heart” as “one of most haunting melodies she has ever written.” The album also contains a joyous reinterpretation of her classic hit song, “Big Yellow Taxi” which was also featured in the ballet.

Track Listing:
1. One Week Last Summer
2. This Place
3. If I Had a Hear
4. Hana
5. Bad Dreams are Good
6. Big Yellow Taxi
7. Night of the Iguana
8. Strong and Wrong
9. Shine
10. If

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