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Joan Baez - Best of Joan Baez Audio CD

A fair review of the Joan Baez "Best of Joan Baez" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Joan Baez reviews here, or go back to the Joan Baez tabs.

Joan Baez Band: Joan Baez
Title: Best of Joan Baez
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-09-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: There But For Fortune 2: Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 3: Water Is Wide 4: Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream 5: I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Joan Baez, Mimi Fari�a 6: Joe Hill 7: Pack up Your Sorrows 8: Silver Dagger 9: We Shall Overcome [Live][*]

Best but not at all complete
1 followed by ten other volumes. This album should say Best of Joan Baez Vol. Joan was that good and just about every folk song you can think of she sang it. For a person just whetting their appetite with her music this is a good place to start to know what you're getting into because Joanie has a fine voice but she is far and away from anything resembling pop music or even pop rock. So if you're expecting mainstream 60s oldies radio type stuff it isnt here. .


She's the BEST
Joan Baez is the best there is to listen to when you want true, perfect pitch and voice.


Not the best anthology of Joan Baez
The track "A Tramp on the Street" had sound glitches throughout, although there were no other problems with any other tracks. This 10 track anthology runs less than 30 minutes. Several of the tracks are live versions. Surely Joan Baez deserves better than this bare-bones anthology. .


Marginal Introduction to a Major Artist


Sure, her only Top 10 hit is here--the cover of Robbie Robertson's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"--along with a terrific cover of Phil Ochs' "There But for Fortune" and live versions of "The Water Is Wide," "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream," "Joe Hill" and the anthemic "We Shall Overcome"; but where are the Dylan covers (notably absent is her definitive version of "Love Is Just a Four Letter Word")? Also missing are any of Baez's own compositions, particularly "Sweet Sir Galahad. Even though Baez left Vanguard more than thirty years ago, you'd think her former label would do a better job than this when putting together a "best of" compilation covering the thirteen albums she released on the label from 1960 to 1971. "

[Note: I purchased this CD to get the original single version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. " The version on my copy of A&M's THE BEST OF JOAN C. BAEZ is a live version. ]

This album has some terrific music; it just comes up short in its attempt to provide a complete picture of this talented folksinger. [Running Time - 28:12] RECOMMENDED .


Short but Sweet
But there are some classic Joan songs and covers here. OK, this album is from the days when they only contained about 40-45 minutes of music, so the brevity is normal of the period. It's a classic album from the heyday of folk music.


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