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
Larry and the Blue Notes years since Larry and the Blue Notes' disbandment, their song "Night of the Sadist" (or "Night of the Phantom") has appeared on several compilation albums. The "Night of the Sadist" version appears on "Back from the Grave, Volume 4", "Acid Dreams - Epitaph", "Fort Worth Teen Scene, Volume 1", and "Acid Dreams" (2014 version). As for "Night of the Phantom", the song is compiled on "Back from the Grave, Volume 1", "Fort Worth Teen Scene - Major Bill Tapes, Volume 2", and "Fort Worth Teen Scene, Volume 2". Their protopunk anthem "In and Out" has become one of their most