Taming the Tiger is the sixteenth studio album by Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

. It was released in 1998 and was widely believed to be the last album of new material Mitchell would ever release (though this was dispelled with the release of her 2007 album Shine

Shine (Joni Mitchell album)

Shine is the nineteenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and was released on September 25, 2007 by Starbucks' Hear Music...

). The title refers to the unexpected commercial and critical success of her previous album Turbulent Indigo

Turbulent Indigo

Turbulent Indigo is the fifteenth album by Joni Mitchell. It was released in 1994, and became one of her most critically acclaimed releases, winning a Grammy Award for Pop Album of the Year....

. , it has sold 133,000 copies in the US to date.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joni Mitchell; except where indicated

1. "Harlem in Havana" – 4:25
2. "Man from Mars" – 4:09
3. "Love Puts on a New Face" – 3:46
4. "Lead Balloon" – 3:38
5. "No Apologies" – 4:17
6. "Taming the Tiger" – 4:18
7. "The Crazy Cries of Love" – 3:54 (Mitchell, Don Freed
   Don Freed
   Donald Freed , is a Canadian singer and songwriter best known for his works about life on the Western Canadian prairies and the province of Saskatchewan in particular.-Life and career:...
   
   )
8. "Stay in Touch" – 2:59
9. "Face Lift" – 4:41
10. "My Best to You" – 2:52 (Gene Willadsen, Isham Jones)
11. "Tiger Bones" – 4:18

Personnel

• Joni Mitchell: vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion; bass on 2,5 ,10
• Femi Jiya: spoken vocals (barker) on 1
• Michael Landau
  Michael Landau
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  : low lead guitar on 4
• Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz
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  : pedal steel guitar
  Pedal steel guitar
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• Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
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  : saxophone
• Larry Klein
  Larry Klein
  Larry Klein is a music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player, commonly known for being the frequent musical collaborator, and ex-husband, of Joni Mitchell....
  
  : bass
• Brian Blade
  Brian Blade
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  : drums