September 23, 2003

Posted September 23, 2003

Joni's new box set The Complete Geffen Recordings arrives in stores today. Joni recorded four albums while with Geffen: Wild Things Run Fast in 1982, Dog Eat Dog in 1985, 1988's Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm and 1991's Night Ride Home. Each of the disks in this four-disk set offers one of the four albums in its entirety. There are three previously unheard tracks: an unreleased piano-and-vocal demo of "Good Friends," and demo versions of "Two Grey Rooms" and Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." An 88-page booklet features liner notes where Joni comments on the tracks. The booklet also includes rare photos from the the Dog Eat Dog and Night Ride Home sessions.

Compilation producer Mike Ragogna told ICE magazine recently that "We hardly did any remastering. In fact, these are basically flat transfers of the albums, since we found them in such good shape. We had the original master tapes, which have only been used once - when Mobile Fidelity licensed the Wild Things Run Fast album. Otherwise, these masters have never been touched."

The set is also available from online vendors such as CD Universe or Amazon.com. CD Universe has a better price.