Joan Baez - First Ten Years
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Free Music Review: 'ALAS FOR THEE'
Hit: 5 Stars
'The bailiff's wife and the provost's wife cried out, alack and alas for thee' when they hear of Mary Hamilton's fate.
This is one of my all time favorite Joan Baez recordings! Having been a child born during the sixties, I grew up singing Baez's "The Streets of Laredo", Simon and Garfunkel's "Feelin' Groovy", Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", and other folk songs in music class at school. I love the ballads she picks out and I love the sound of her voice regardless of what her critics say. Six of the songs on this are Dylan tunes. Some of my favorites are "Sweet Sir Galahad", "ghetto" (a song written by Memphians), "There But For Fortune", "Don't Think Twice, it's all right", "John Riley", and "Mary Hamilton".
Free Music Review: Essential Baez
Hit: 5 Stars
Even now, after Joan's boxed set and all the subsequent compilations, this still remains her strongest "greatest hits" collection. Every one of these songs is an absolute Baez classic. Album cuts across the first decade of Joan's career (hence the title), showcasing traditional ballads ("Silver Dagger", "John Riley"), protest material ("There But for Fortune", "With God on Our Side"), singer/songwriter ("Sweet Sir Galahad"), and country ("Let the Circle be Unbroken"), as well as Joan's experimental attempts at spoken poetry (Blake's "London") and symphonic orchestration ("If I Were a Carpenter"). Absolutely essential.Free Music Review: the one baez album to buy
Hit: 5 Stars
A wide ranging and thoroughly satisfying compliation of Baez' early work, including definitive interpretations of Farewell Angelina (one of Dylan's hidden masterpieces), Love is Just a Four Letter Word (another Dylan gem), and There But for Fortune, and so so much more. Of all the great female folk singers, Joan Baez has the purest voice, and while her career may have been somewhat limited by the fact that she did not write her own songs, she is a superb interpreter of a range of material, from Dylan to old English folk songs.Free Music Review: Joan Baez at her best
Hit: 5 Stars
My record album is 33 years old, and I bought the CD to listen to at work. Her renditions of Bob Dylan's songs bring them to life, infusing them with passion. Her singing of older folk songs illustrate her crystalline voice. I learned to play guitar to her "Farwell Angelina." More recently, I've played "With God on Our Side" when I am troubled by our current status in Iraq. If you want to try one Joan Baez album, this is the one.Free Music Review: Great retrospective
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great collection of her Vanguard years, except Blessed Are which was released after this.Starting off with Ghetto, a prickly number with wicked electric sitar and brushes ..., it then calms down with If I Were A Carpenter. Most of the classics are here, only sad thing is that 5 or so songs are lopped off from the original vinyl version.
Well recommeded....