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Barnaby Finch: Keyboards, Piano | Robin Adler: Vocals | Dave Blackburn: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Vocals | Dave Curtis: Bass guitar, Keyboards | Barry Cahill: Flute, Saxophone, Vocals | Danny Campbell: Drums | Peggy Watson: Vocals

Genre: Covers | Standards

Sound description: Very Joni Mitchell-like.

RIYL: Joni Mitchell

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Related Links

• Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet website

• "For the Roses" · April 9, 2013

• "Next Best Thing to Seeing Joni Mitchell" · March 28, 2013

• Jam Session: "Joni Mitchell Tribute=S.R.O. at Dizzy's" · Nov. 7, 2011

• Jam Session: "Robin Adler, Mutts of the Planet Get "Blue" @ Dizzy's" · Nov. 1, 2011

Synoposis

Inception: Fallbrook, 2006

Ex-Band Members: Jeff Olson, Drums Britt Doehring, Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Vocals

Influences: Joni Mitchell

Background:

San Diego vocalist Robin Adler and her husband, guitarist Dave Blackburn, together with a large, tight ensemble they call the Mutts of the Planet, perform the music of Joni Mitchell. The band was founded in 2006, with the ambitious gameplan of learning all of Mitchell’s notoriously difficult music.

Adler honed her considerable vocal chops for years as a member of San Diego jazz guitarist Peter Sprague’s groups, which frequently covered Mitchell material.

Along with Adler’s voice and Blackburn’s guitar, as of 2012 M.O.T.P. features Barnaby Finch on piano, David Curtis on keyboards, Danny Campbell on drums, Barry Cahill on vocals, sax and flute, and Peggy Watson on vocals. The band has also performed with bassist Max Bennett, a veteran musician who toured and recorded with Mitchell back in the day.

Their album Safaris to the Heart: The Songs of Joni was released in 2010.

Discography