Joan Baez - The First 10 Years
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Free Music Notes for The First 10 Years
Free Music Review: Her voice is exquisite like no other
Hit: 5 Stars
What I have always love about Joan Baez is her exquisite and crystal clear voice. She is a dream to listen to and her songs fit her vocal range just perfect. This album is excellent all the way through and the songs included on the CD is the best of her repertoire from 1960 to 1970, which is why the album is called THE FIRST TEN YEARS. All of the songs on this collection are great but there are six tracks that are truly wonderful and is why I bought this album aside from the fact that she has a beautiful voice. The songs that I love from this great recording are "Ghetto", "If I Were A Carpenter", "If I Knew", "No Expectations" (which is a cover of the Stones original and she sounds far better than Mick on this one.) "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word". They are all excellent and as I said before perfect for her glorious soprano voice. This is a great album to have and enjoy for many years to come and if you're a Joan Baez fan than this one is a must for your collection. GREAT and EXHILIRATING.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: One of the best sixties folk singers
Hit: 5 Stars
This compilation covers the ten years that Joan spent recording for Vanguard. She had some success after she left, but the Vanguard recordings remain the most important of her career.She occasionally wrote her own songs (represented here by Sweet Sir Galahad) but mostly she recorded the songs of others. Her biggest influence was Bob Dylan, who wrote six of the songs here. Apparently, Bob never recorded Love is just a four letter word, but it is a lovely song. I first heard With God on our side by Manfred Mann, a sixties group who also recorded several Bob Dylan songs. Many people have recorded Don't think twice it's all right, including Johnny Cash - another singer who has made several raids on the Bob Dylan songbook. You ain't going nowhere, Farewell Angelina and A hard rain's gonna fall are his other songs here.
Other covers by Joan here include There but for fortune (Phil Ochs), No expectations (Rolling stones), Turquoise (Donovan) and the often covered If I were a carpenter. There are also some traditional folk songs - Mary Hamilton, Geordie and Te ador - so old that their writers are unknown.
Joan recorded so many great songs that eighteen tracks cannot possibly include everything worth having, but this is a good sampling of Joan's music. If you only want one of Joan's albums, this is a good one to choose.
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....
Free Music Review: Beyond a greatest hits album
Hit: 5 Stars
This one is a "must buy" for people intoxicated by Joan Baez's gorgeous voice: the perfect vibrato, the stunning range, the sweet notes and the soulful notes. What's wonderful about this particular album is that it contains songs that even die-hard fans may not have already, yet none of them are fillers. Joan's version of Hard-Rains-A-Gonna-Fall brings out the power and the beauty of the lyrics in a way that even Bob Dylan must have cheered at. "Mary Hamilton" is an understated ballad, sung in the sweetest, highest voice that gets more powerful with every listen. Don't be scared off by the un-Joan-like "Ghetto" as the opening number of this album. It's just a little introduction. Soon, you'll be swept away into greater magnificence like "Sweet Sir Gallahad" which is almost tearful in its romance. And of course, "With God on our Side" is one of the great anti-war ballads. It goes on and on ... but not for long enough! Pacifists will be laughing and cheering by midway through the song.
In some ways, this is a subtle folk album, aside from her powerful singing voice, which lends something elaborate to even the simplest songs. But it's subtle in the sense that it doesn't have a whole lot of "oh, yeah, I remember that one" songs on it. Yet it is a MUST for fans. You do not want to be a Joan Baez fan without songs like "John Riley", which will tear out your heart in the hands of her exquisite rendition.