Court and Spark Court and Spark Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album. Released in January 1974, it infuses her folk rock style, which she developed throughout her previous five albums, with jazz inflections. It reached No. 2 in the United States and No. 1 in Canada and eventually received a Double Platinum certification by the RIAA, the highest of Mitchell's career. It also reached the Top 20 in the UK and was voted the best album of the year for 1974 in The
The Blue Rags label experience. The group informally disbanded in 2000. A third album was recorded around this time, but untimely record label mergers put its release in limbo. In the years since, the band has staged occasional reunion shows in the Asheville area. The band members have all moved on to various musical projects, including Bill Reynolds, who is currently the bassist for Band of Horses. The Blue Rags The Blue Rags are a revivalist, ragtime boogie-woogie band from Asheville, North Carolina. The band released two albums on the trendsetting Sub Pop label - 1997’s "Rag-N-Roll" and 1999’s "Eat at Joe’s" -