Joan Baez - Dark Chords on a Big Guitar
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Artist: Joan BaezEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
- Sleeper
- In My Time of Need
- Rosemary Moore
- Caleb Meyer
- Motherland
- Wings
- Rexroth's Daughter
- Elvis Presley Blues
- King's Highway
- Christmas in Washington
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Free Music Review: Joan Baez Shines Brightly in "DARK CHORDS ON A BIG GUITAR"
Hit: 5 Stars
Joan Baez is many things to many people-a political activist, a pacifist, a writer, a musician. But, most of all, Joan Baez is a singer of rare and unequalled talent. While some of her offerings have only alluded to the mesmerizing depth of her powerful voice, she is in full force on her latest work "DARK CHORDS ON A BIG GUITAR". Gone is the lilting vibratto that jettisoned her to fame in the 1960's, but do not lament the loss, for it has been replaced with a richer, more mature tone that wraps itself around the music and adds new dimensions to some familiar songs. The album opens with Greg Brown's "Sleeper", an insistant and understated work that gets under your skin and requires a second and third listen. Ms. Baez, the consummate artist, has once again surrounded herself with excellent writers and wonderful songs, such as Ryan Adams' "In My Time Of Need", Greg Brown's "Rexroth's Daughter" and the quirky but winning "Rosemary Moore" by Caitlin Cary. Stand outs on this brilliant CD are numerous, and include the amazing "Motherland", written by Natalie Merchant but utterly transformed into an ethereal work of art by the perfect phrasing and tone that Ms. Baez imparts to it. Another favorite is one that I've never cared for in the past. I've always considered Steve Earle's "Christmas in Washington" to be a rough-edged, uneasy work, yet in the hands of the master, it is transformed into quietly sad and biting satire. Brilliant is the word that comes to mind when hearing the cut "Wings", written by Josh Ritter. This hypnotic work is one of the finest Baez recordings in the past decade and will undoubtedly become a concert classic. In "Wings", Joan Baez sings "I said inside this gilded cage, a songbird always looks so plain, well it's my home, last night I dreamed I grew wings...". There is nothing "plain" about this work. In fact, on DARK CHORDS ON A BIG GUITAR" Joan Baez soars on wings of gold.
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Though she was earliest known as a folk traditionalist, Joan Baez has long been recognized for her good taste in contemporary songcraft. Four decades after introducing the young Bob Dylan to a wider listenership, she here finds kindred spirits in a range of artists from Greg Brown ("Sleeper," "Rexrith's Daughter") to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings ("Caleb Meyer," "Elvis Presley Blues") to Natalie Merchant (whose "Motherland" could have been written made to order for Baez) to young Josh Ritter ("Wings"). Her empathic version of the standout "In My Time of Need" by Ryan Adams shows that whatever she's lost in the upper register of her soprano, she's gained in the interpretive depth of her lower register. She also covers the comparatively quirky "Rosemary Moore" by Adams' former Whiskeytown bandmate, Caitlin Cary. Though the closing "Christmas in Washington" finds her pristine vocal smoothing the emotional rough edges from Steve Earle's original, most of the rest finds her not only selecting inspired material, but doing justice to it. --Don McLeeseFolk Music CDs
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