[9] David Crosby was assigned as producer as part of the deal with Reprise Records, following meeting Mitchell in October 1967.

[9] Crosby wanted Mitchell to sound pure and natural, so he asked her to sing into the studio grand piano, and set up extra microphones to capture her voice reverberating off the strings; unfortunately the set-up captured too much ambient noise, resulting in excessive tape hiss, which could only be removed post-production at the cost of the high sounds in the audio range, which gives the album a flat feel.

[11] Record World said of the single "Night in the City" that "The marvelous Joni Mitchell lights up the imagination with this provocative rock.

Commenting on the quality of the original mix, Mitchell called it "atrocious" and said it "sounded like it was recorded under a Jello bowl".

All tracks are written by Joni MitchellTechnical Cass Elliot covered two songs from the album: "Sisotowbell Lane" and "I Had a King".