Joan Baez - Blowin' Away
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Artist: Joan BaezEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-01-01
Music Label: Sony Special Product
Soundtracks:
- Sailing
- Many A Mile To Freedom
- Miracles
- Yellow Coat
- Time Rag
- A Heartfelt Line Or Two
- I'm Blowin' Away
- Luba The Baroness
- Alter Boy And The Thief
- Cry Me A River
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Free Music Review: An absolute gem from the 1970s
Hit: 5 Stars
This disc arrived in the mail today. As I listened to it, I couldn't believe that I didn't buy it years ago. This is a GREAT Joan Baez album.
I owned it on vinyl. This was recorded and released in 1977, Joan's first album for Portrait Records. It has a terrific mix of material, including five original songs.
The songs that Joan interprets are dynamite. The disc starts out with "Sailing," a very appealing and upbeat performance. Perhaps my favorite is Joan's rendition of Steve Goodman's song "Yellow Coat," from his first studio album (which Joan also appeared on, as background vocalist for "Donald & Lydia"). This is a heartbreaking song about a relationship that has ended in reality, but not in the heart of the narrator. The recording closes with Joan's jazz-tinged performance of the standard "Cry Me a River," which in my opinion ranks as one of the best interpretations of the song.
"Blowin' Away" is also special because it includes one of Joan's best original songs, "Miracles." It always has amazed me that this song has not been more widely anthologized in Joan's canon of recordings. Lyrically and musically, the song is top-notch. Also, the album includes Joan's tribute to a gay couple in "The Altar Boy and the Thief," which was a groundbreaking song about her observations of a gay male couple in a bar.
One criticism (and there also has to be at least one) is that, given the relative brevity of the program (approximately 40 minutes), Sony could have added the 45rpm single version of "Time Rag," which, as a single, was remixed and given a faster disco beat. Not to mention, the mono mixes of the songs released as singles could have been added, which would have brought the disc's length to approximately 52 minutes.
"Blowin' Away" was a sleeper in Joan's long career that should have been much more commercially successful than it was at the time of its original release. For the purists who bemoaned Joan's departure from the folk sound, or the misogynists who claimed Joan was not a pop/rock singer, I say "Raspberries."
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