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
Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue (Paul Carrack album) 2007 album "Sex 'N' Jazz". Other songs are outtakes from earlier album projects, songs recorded for tribute albums, and newly recorded tracks. Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue (Paul Carrack album) Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue is the eleventh solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter Paul Carrack. It was originally released in 2007 on Carrack's own Carrack-UK label. As the title implies, the album is a mixture of recordings of various vintages -- some old, some new -- cover (i.e., "borrowed") songs, and songs that have a soul or blues influence. Two