Joan Baez - Joan Baez
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Artist: Joan BaezEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-08-14
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- Silver Dagger
- East Virginia
- Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles)
- House of the Rising Sun
- All My Trails
- Wildwood Flower
- Donna Donna
- John Riley
- Rake and Rambling Boy
- Little Moses
- Mary Hamilton
- Henry Martin
- El Preso Numero Nueve
- Girl Of Constant Sorrow
- I Know You Rider
- John Riley
Free Music Notes for Joan Baez
Free Music Review: A Slightly Different View
Hit: 5 Stars
As a lifelong fan of Joan Baez the singer AND Joan Baez the activist, I will admit right off that I am so into her that I'm sure I lost all of my objectivity long ago. It's not that I love absolutely everything she sings, or that I don't appreciate many other singers as much or better. Perhaps I can state it best through a personal experience. When I was seven years old (1960), I heard "East Virginia" coming through the single speaker in my parents' hi-fi console. The song was not coming from the grooves of a vinyl disc, but over the airwaves, during a period when college radio stations were playing folk music, rather than rock 'n' roll. Anyway, that voice and that melody haunted me for years afterwards, and now I must blame Joan Baez for having turned me into a music junkie for the rest of my life. When I was in the fifth grade, a friend's sister put Joan's first LP on her portable record player. "Silver Dagger" knocked me right out of my seat, and when "East Virginia" started to play, it all became clear when and where I had heard that voice before.
JOAN BAEZ became one of the first LP's I ever owned, but I did not buy it until I was a couple of years older and had enough of my own money to spend. I used the word "blame" earlier, because I swear that if I had never bought an album, cassette or CD, I would be a rich man today. Buying music has kept me financially poor, but I can't say I'm too sorry, because it has made me feel spiritually rich. So, because of this early connection to music, I can still revisit and enjoy this essential record; and yet I have not frozen Joan into this period, as others seem to have done. I like songs of hers throughout her incredibly long career and she has made several albums that remain among my favorites. The first of five times that I've gone to see and hear Joan Baez live didn't come until 1983, and by then she was doing almost every type of song one could imagine. A recent CD, DARK CHORDS ON A BIG GUITAR, serves as a reminder that Joan is still a vital, restless talent who has never stopped growing. Her singing may not have the purity it did when she made this first record for Vanguard, and I won't say that her voice isn't finally beginning to show the ravages of time, but over the years she has made up for the loss of range with a greater depth of feeling, shaded no doubt by experience and life itself, and has added colors to her box of vocal tones (she may have lost the high end, but the low end is better than ever). So some of Joan's old, folkie fans dumped her when she went country, or later, when she started in with the pop music, or still later when she tried to rock out, but I've found her evolution to be rewarding and fascinating at every turn. It could not be so without that voice; but for me, as my story illustrates, it goes deeper.
Joan Baez Poster
History's ear hasn't been kind to Joan Baez: in retrospect, set against the traditional voices whose material she interpreted, her own versions seem painfully pretty, her soprano icy and removed. But it's hard to gauge now the force of her first record, a folk-revival landmark. Released in 1960 after a triumphant Newport Festival appearance, the record had deep material and emotion that few of her urban folk contemporaries possessed. Her version of "John Riley" is compelling, "East Virginia" glowing, and "Silver Dagger" concentrated, while "Preso Numero Nueve" showed her future political turn. (This 2001 reissue offers two previously unreleased tracks plus an expanded version of "John Riley.") --Roy KastenFolk Music CDs
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