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Joan Baez - Joan Baez - Greatest Hits Audio CD

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Joan Baez Band: Joan Baez
Title: Joan Baez - Greatest Hits
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Release Date: 1996-05-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Diamonds & Rust 2: Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 3: Simple Twist of Fate 4: Imagine 5: In the Quiet Morning (For Janis Joplin) 6: Best of Friends 7: Forever Young 8: Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) 9: Jesse 10: Children and All That Jazz 11: Please Come to Boston 12: Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer 13: Gracias a la Vida 14: Sweeter for Me 15: Love Song To A Stranger 16: Dida 17: Amazing Grace 18: Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti [*] 19: Oh Happy Day [*] 20: Less Than the Song [*]

joan baez greatest hits
. I bought this CD for Diamonds and Rust, and as it turns out, it's the best song on the CD.


What were you thinking Joan?
What a shame that in her later career she has been the victim of cheesy arrangements and second rate material. I've long been a fan of Joan's distinctive vocal sound. Only a few tracks on this CD are listenable. I'm going to look around for some of her earlier, more folksy songs.


Good selections, but...
I would have chosen her greatest hits a little differently tho. This recording is some of Joan's best stuff. Still a good listen.


Good collection, but a couple of corrections
'Greatest Hits' is a good (not perfect) overview of Joan's A&M years - which, other reviewers fail to understand, do not encompass her popular 1971 Blessed Are. . album (the one that includes the original version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. ") By the way, I recommend Ace Records' Best of the Vanguard Years to survey Joan's early years. All of her original Vanguard LP's have been reissued, too.

But, my point here to is correct two aspects of the liner notes and track selection. First, the version of "Forever Young" included here is not the original 1974 single version (though that's what the liner notes claim). Rather, it's the live version on From Every Stage (1976). Too bad - the single is better. Note that you can download the original studio version from her Complete A&M Recordings collection.

Second, the version of "Dida" included here is the jazzy 1975 version (from Diamonds & Rust with Joni Mitchell and Tom Scott. The liner notes claim it's the original 1974 version from Gracias a la Vida. Which, IMHO, is a good thing - but the liner notes are incorrect.


JOAN BAEZ IN THE 1970s,
Her protest songs of the 1960s were her best in my opinion. There is only one voice of Joan Baez.


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