Description
Label Review.
1959-1962
Our Overview.
Joan Baez, who recently announced her retirement from live performance is best known as a “Protest” singer from the 1960s who for a short time was indelibly linked with the name Bob Dylan. However, unlike Bob who used the protest scene to launch his career, Joan put her money her mouth was and stuck to the cause - the list of movements and rallies she has supported over the years (see on Wikipedia) is nothing short of astonishing. To reward her decades of dedicated activism, Baez was honoured with the Spirit of Americana/Free Speech award at the 2008 Americana Music Honors & Awards.
However, before anyone knew who Dylan was, Baez was already an established star in the US Folk scene and this double CD collects the entire contents of her first two albums for the Vanguard label along with some others tracks that didn’t make the cut at the time plus some even earlier recordings from 1959.
Tracklisting.
CD1
O what a beautiful city (Traditional) 1959
Black is the color (Traditional, arr. John Jacob Niles) 1959
Sail away ladies (Traditional) 1959
Lowlands (Traditional) 1959
What you gonna call your pretty little baby (Traditional) 1959
Silver dagger (Traditional) 1960
East Virginia (Traditional) 1960
Fare thee well (10.000 Miles) (Traditional, arr. David Gude) 1960
House of the rising sun (Traditional) 1960
John Riley (Traditional) 1960
Mary Hamilton (Traditional) 1960
Henry Martin (Traditional) 1960
Girl of constant sorrow (Traditional) 1960
All my trials (Traditional) 1960
Wildwood flowers (Traditional) 1960
Donna Donna (Sholom Secunda, Aaron Zeitlin, Arthur Kevess, Teddi Schwartz) 1960
Rake and rambling boy (Traditional) 1960
Little Moses (Traditional) 1960
El preso número nueve (Roberto Cantoral) 1960
I know you rider (Traditional) 1960
CD2
Wagoner’s lad (Traditional) 1961
The trees they do grow high (Traditional) 1961
Lily of the west (Traditional) 1961
Silkie (Traditional) 1961
Engine 143 (Traditional) 1961
Once I knew a pretty girl (Traditional) 1961
Lonesome road (Traditional) 1961
Banks of Ohio (Traditional) 1961
Pal of mine (Traditional) 1961
Barbara Allen (Traditional) 1961
The Cherry Tree Carol (Traditional) 1961
Old blue (Traditional) 1961
Railroad boy (Traditional)
Plaisir d’amour [The Joy of love] (Traditional) 1961
Poor boy (Traditional) 1961
Longest train I ever saw (Traditional) 1961
I once loved a boy (Traditional) 1961
What have they done to the rain (Malvina Reynolds) 1962
The House Carpenter (Traditional) 1962
Railroad Bill (Traditional) 1962