The playlist of all the songs on Hissing Of Summer Lawns in their stripped down form as Joni Mitchell presented them to the record company as her proposed album. It is know as the ‘Hissing Demos’ as well as ‘The Seeding Of Summer Lawns’.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8313B530DB4BC1A5
These unreleased demos and working versions appeared in a radically different finished form on the “Hissing Of Summer Lawns” released in November 1975. On the album Joni had continued her change in musical direction begun on Court And Spark (1974), away from her folk stylings towards jazz and what we would now label world music.
The tracks recorded on these demos are performed mainly on acoustic guitar and piano, giving these stripped down versions a feel similar to the albums Blue, For The Roses (1972) and Hejira (1976). Missing from this collection of demos are The Jungle Line, Don’t Interrupt The Sorrow and the album’s title track The Hissing Of Summer Lawns. Of the nine tracks, two did not appear on the finished album, Dreamland was omitted and finally appeared on Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977) in its completed form, Hunter is an outtake from perhaps Joni’s most famous and deeply personal album Blue (1971).
These demos also circulate as the Seeding Of Summer Lawns; same track-listing,
The Fat Angel Sings 