Taming the Tiger
| Taming the Tiger | ||||
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| Released | September 29, 1998 | |||
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| Length | 43:17 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Joni Mitchell | |||
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| AllMusic | |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
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| Robert Christgau | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
Taming the Tiger is the sixteenth studio album by the Canadian musician Joni Mitchell. Released on September 29, 1998, through Reprise Records, it is the follow-up to the successful Turbulent Indigo (1994). The album was, at the time, widely believed to be her last of completely original material; this would be disproved with the release of Shine in 2007.
Contributors to Taming the Tiger include Larry Klein on bass and Wayne Shorter on saxophone. The album combines the jazz stylings of much of her work with a textured, ambient-esque sound, indebted to her use of the Roland VG-8 virtual guitar system.
Taming the Tiger did not achieve the same level of success as its predecessor, peaking at number 86 in Mitchell's native Canada and number 75 in the US. However, it received positive reviews from critics and was considered a continuation of a return to form which started with Night Ride Home (1991).