For the Roses, originally released in 1972, was Joni Mitchell's fifth studio album and her first for Asylum Records. It bridges the stark, intimate Blue (1971) and the jazz-tinged Court and Spark (1974), with fuller arrangements in which Tom Scott's horns play a prominent part. Mitchell wrote the songs in seclusion on the coast of British Columbia, after withdrawing from public life. The lyrics deal with the flip side of fame, with relationships and with addiction, as on 'Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire'. The single 'You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio' became her first US top 30 hit, and in 2007 For the Roses was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

This edition is an LP on aqua blue transparent vinyl.