While it's unusual to highlight sleevenotes, Joni's own to this four-disc box are remarkable: she slams the record company for burying this uncommercial work, and disses individual tracks.

Bottom line: Joni Mitchell has always gone against the grain ... "Free Man in Paris" is about philanthropist and music ...

David Geffen and Elliot Roberts ... That song deserves its own place in the story of Joni Mitchell’s interactions with her boys. It has long played a central and complicated role in her legend.