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Joan Baez by: Joan Baez List Price: $17.98 CD-Charts Price: $14.99 You Save: $2.99 (17%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0015707959421 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Vanguard Records Manufacturer: Vanguard Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Vanguard Records Release Date: August 14, 2001 Studio: Vanguard Records Sales Rank: 25051 MPN: 79594 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: 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 Kasten Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Joan Baez at her bestI had a copy of this when I was a young man back in the '60s.It was on vinyl of course and didn't survive the many playings I gave it. I believe it was done in a very unpretentious way highlighting an extremely talented young folk singer. She of course went on to become a singing superstar but this is the definitive Joan Baez for me. Rating: - A Slightly Different ViewAs 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 ... Read More: Rating:  - A Lovely AlbumThis is an outstanding reissue. I owned the original Vanguard recording, recorded over 45 years ago, and it was a favorite. Discarded years ago, I've occasionally wondered if my fondness for this album had more to with nostalgia than the quality of the music. The answer is a resounding no. Baez sings a superb selection of material in an unaffected, natural manner. At this stage of her career, she had a lovely voice, and one whose quality seems to be suited perfectly to the material. The aural quality of this reissue is excellent and adjusted for inflation, this may be a lower price than the cost of the album when first issued. Rating: - A Rare TreatThe recent PBS American Masters presentation of Martin Scorsese's "Bob Dylan: No Direction Home" made one thing clear: rather than history being unkind to Baez, the opposite is true. On a stage filled with luminaries, her voice transcended, rising above humbler vocal talents like a temple bell at a PTA meeting squabble. When Joan sings "All My Trials," and hits the word "cold" in the line "The river Jordan is muddy and cold ..." she creates another language altogether - something simultaneously sinuous, tender, and bitter. You may only have one life. Do yourself a favor - somewhere along the way see the Alhambra in May, sip champagne in an Epernay cellar, turn out the lights and catch a Myrna Loy & William Powell flick, and listen ... Read More: Rating: - Correction to Peter Caldwell reviewContrary to Peter Caldwell's posting below, the character of "Joanie Phoanie," a Joan Baez look-alike in bare feet and love beads, was the creation not of "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau but of "Li'l Abner" cartoonist Al Capp, a former liberal turned '60s pro-Vietnam war rightwinger. Capp also came up with Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (SWINE), a parody of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Capp was invited to numerous campuses by prowar groups till multiple allegations of sexual improprieties surfaced, after which he withdrew. Online sources say Ms. Baez successfully sued Capp for libel. Capp's cartoon strip satirizing "hillbillies" died more than 30 years ago. Joan Baez has continued a distinguished career, both in politics ... Read More: |
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