Joan Baez - Diva Of The Folk Revival: Early Days And Late, Late, Nights Vol 2 '2009; 2019

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The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the 1960s, Joan Baez has
influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong.
Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late 50s,
she has put in the service of folk and pop music as well as a variety of
political causes. Starting out in Boston, Baez first gained recognition at the
1959 Newport Folk Festival, then cut her debut album, Joan Baez (October 1960),
for Vanguard Records. It was made up of 13 traditional songs given
near-definitive treatment. A moderate success on release, the album took off
after the breakthrough of Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (September 1961), and both albums
became huge hits, as did Baezs third album, Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 1
(September 1962). Each album went gold and stayed in the best-seller charts more
than two years. 

From 1962 to 1964, Baez was the popular face of folk music, headlining festivals
and concert tours and singing at political events, including the August 1963
March on Washington. During this period, she began to champion the work of folk
songwriter Bob Dylan, and gradually her repertoire moved from traditional
material toward the socially conscious work of the emerging generation of 60s
artists like him. Her albums of this period were Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 2
(November 1963) and Joan Baez 5 (October 1964), which contained her cover of
Phil Ochs There But for Fortune, a Top Ten hit in the U.K. 

Like other popular folk performers, Baez was affected by the changes in popular
music wrought by the appearance of the Beatles in the U.S. in 1964, and Dylans
introduction of folk-rock in 1965, and she began to augment her simple acoustic
guitar backing with other instruments, initially on Farewell, Angelina (October
1965). It was followed by a Christmas album, Noël (October 1966), and Joan
(August 1967), albums on which she was accompanied by an orchestra conducted by
Peter Schickele. Baez continued to experiment in the late 60s, releasing Baptism
(June 1968), in which she recited poetry, and Any Day Now (December 1968), a
double album of Dylan songs done with country backing, which went gold. 

In March 1968, Baez had married antiwar protest leader David Harris, who was
imprisoned as a draft evader. Harris was a country music fan, and Baezs turn
toward country, which continued on Davids Album (June 1969) and One Day at a
Time (March 1970), reflected his taste. Blessed Are... (August 1971) was a
gold-selling double album that spawned a gold Top Ten hit in Baezs cover of the
Bands The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. It was followed by Carry It On
(December 1971), the soundtrack to a documentary about Baez and Harris. Baez
switched record label affiliation to A&M Records with Come from the Shadows (May
1972), which moved her in a more pop direction. Where Are You Now, My Son? (May
1973) included sounds taped during Baezs visit to Hanoi in December 1972. 

In the late 60s and early 70s, Baez moved toward pop/rock music and also began
to write her own songs, culminating in the gold-selling Diamonds & Rust (April
1975), which was followed by the entirely self-written Gulf Winds (October
1976). Baez moved to the Portrait label of CBS Records with Blowin Away (June
1977), but she left the label after Honest Lullaby (May 1979), and her next
album, European Tour (1980), was released only outside the U.S. It was another
seven years before she found an American record label, Gold Castle, for Recently
(1987), which was followed by the live album Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring
(January 1989) and Speaking of Dreams (October 1989). Baez moved to Virgin
Records for Play Me Backwards (August 1992). 

In 1993, Vanguard released Rare, Live & Classic, a three-CD box-set
retrospective. Ring Them Bells, a live album on which Baez was joined by musical
descendants like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Indigo Girls, came out on Guardian
Records in 1995. Gone from Danger, her first studio album in five years,
followed in 1997, and it was another six years before the release of Dark Chords
on a Big Guitar in 2003. A November 2004 concert in New York was documented on
the 2005 release Bowery Songs. Baezs 24th studio album, Day After Tomorrow,
produced by Steve Earle, was released on September 9, 2008 by Bobolink/Razor &
Tie, followed by Sing Me Home almost exactly a year later in 2009. In 2016, Baez
celebrated her 75th birthday with a special concert at the Beacon Theatre in New
York. Joined by an all-star cast of musicians, including Judy Collins, Emmylou
Harris, Richard Thompson, and Jackson Browne, the show was captured for
posterity and issued as an official release a few months later. Baez was
inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, and she went into the studio
with producer Joe Henry to begin work on an album that same year. Whistle Down
the Wind was released in March 2018, and was followed by a concert tour that
Baez declared would be her last. ~ William Ruhlmann

Tracklist:

2019 Diva Of The Folk Revival: Early Days And Late, Late, Nights
01. Joan Baez - Island In The Sun
02. Joan Baez - Water Boy
03. Joan Baez - Annie Had A Baby
04. Joan Baez - Oh Freedom
05. Joan Baez - Man Smart, Woman Smarter
06. Joan Baez - Scarlet Ribbons
07. Joan Baez - Dark As A Dungeon
08. Joan Baez - Told My Captain
09. Joan Baez - Young Blood
10. Joan Baez - I Gave My Love A Cherry
11. Joan Baez - La Bamba
12. Joan Baez - Every Night
13. Joan Baez - Banks Of The Ohio
14. Joan Baez - What A Beautiful City
15. Joan Baez - Sail Away Ladies
16. Joan Baez - Black Is The Colour
17. Joan Baez - Lowlands
18. Joan Baez - What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby
19. Joan Baez - Kitty
20. Joan Baez - So Soon In The Morning
21. Joan Baez - Careless Love
22. Joan Baez - Dont Weep After Me

2019 Diva Of The Folk Revival: Early Days And Late, Late, Nights Vol 2
01. Joan Baez - Silver Dagger
02. Joan Baez - East Virginia
03. Joan Baez - Fare Thee Well
04. Joan Baez - House Of The Rising Sun
05. Joan Baez - All My Trials
06. Joan Baez - Wildwood Flower
07. Joan Baez - Donna Donna
08. Joan Baez - John Riley
09. Joan Baez - Rake And Rambling Boy
10. Joan Baez - Little Moses
11. Joan Baez - Mary Hamilton
12. Joan Baez - Henry Martin
13. Joan Baez - El Preso Numero Nueve
14. Joan Baez - Wagoners Lad
15. Joan Baez - The Trees They Do Grow High
16. Joan Baez - The Lily Of The West
17. Joan Baez - Silkie
18. Joan Baez - Engine 143
19. Joan Baez - Once I Knew A Pretty Girl
20. Joan Baez - Lonesome Road
21. Joan Baez - Banks Of The Ohio
22. Joan Baez - Pal Of Mine
23. Joan Baez - Barbara Allen
24. Joan Baez - The Cherry Tree Carol
25. Joan Baez - Old Blue
26. Joan Baez - Railroad Boy
27. Joan Baez - Plaisir D Amour

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