Court and Spark Car On A Hill

[Paul L.]

Steve,
The awful distortion from about 1:06 to 1:24 on this song, do you know if that's on the multitrack tape? The distortion wasn't part of Joni's conception or something, was it?
Other than that, which has to be circumstances beyond your control, this release is vastly better than the non-DCC ones. An even bigger improvement than is Blue, which is also excellent.
Paul

[Steve Hoffman]

What, you don't like that? :D

Well, it's right on the master tape, but not on the multi-track. It must have happened in mixing. Why they let it go is a mystery, but just don't listen to it on the original LP release. With that added upper midrange/lower treble boost, it sounds like one's stereo is dying a quick but painful death.