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Joan Baez - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Joan Baez Audio CD

A fair review of the Joan Baez "20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The 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.

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Title: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Joan Baez
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Release Date: 1999-10-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Diamonds and Rust 2: Fountain of Sorrow 3: Love Song to a Stranger 4: Hello in There 5: Dida 6: Jesse 7: In the Quiet Morning 8: Gracias a la Vida 9: Children and All That Jazz 10: Forever Young 11: Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [Live]

So many beautiful songs here...
Baez supposedly wrote it for Bob Dylan, when they were involved. But my all-time favorite is Love Song to a Stranger. And the song remains utterly haunting and gorgeous today. It is definitely on my top ten songs of all time list.

Of course, Diamond and Rust and Forever Young are classics and beautiful in their own right. Even now, I sing Forever Young to my daughter when she is settling down for the night. .


FAIR COLLECTION
Fountain Of Sorrow is an exquisite interpretation of the Jackson Browne song, Love Song To A Stranger is magnificent lyrically and I also like her version of Janis Ian's poignant Jesse. This compilation includes some of Baez' best post-60s tracks including her commercial successes Forever Young and a live version of her greatest hit The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

In The Quiet Morning, her moving tribute to Janis Joplin, is a rare track as the album whence it comes (Come From The Shadows) has not yet been re-issued on CD. Gracias A La Vida, from the album of the same name, is a beautiful Spanish song by Chilean artist Violeta Parra. Of course this collection is quite incomplete as it lacks all her great music from the 1960s, a very fertile period.

So in addition and in order to get the complete picture, I recommend the albums Hits: Greatest And Others, the very comprehensive Diamonds compilation, her Dylan album Any Day Now plus the excellent Farewell Angelina and In Concert Volume I from the early sixties, for its pristine early folk sound. This Millennium Collection does showcase some of her most beautiful songs from the early to the mid 1970s and provides a satisfying listen.


Joan Baez--Forever Young
Baez sings on this collection, is an appropriate description of her. The Bob Dylan lullaby for his child, "Forever Young", which Ms. Though now in her 60's, she is more beautiful than she was at twenty. And that instantly recognizable voice is still transparent and otherworldly.

In addition to the beautiful "Forever Young", Baez sings five more of my favorites: Jackson's Browne's "Fountain of Sorrow", "Jesse" by Janis Ian, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", John Prine's "Hello In There. " (I can never decide whether I'd rather hear Ms. Baez or Bette Midler do that sad, mournful song about the isolation of old people. ) Finally, there is her love song to Bob Dylan, "Diamonds and Rust. " I wish the record company had included "Joe Hill" on this release.

When I play this CD, I find myself humming these songs for days, a sure sign that they indeed are favorites of mine. My complaint about this CD has nothing to do with the singer but rather with A & M Records. There are already a half dozen or more "Best Of" and "Greatest Hits" and "Classics" of Baez out there. Enough already.


come from the shadows
ken. i have been trying to track down this aldum on cd ,but have had no luck ,can anybody help .


Great Songs but Unnecessary Repackaging
They would have better off to have reissued COME FROM THE SHADOWS (1972), WHERE ARE YOU NOW, MY SON (1973) and GULF WINDS (1976), all three of which are out of print, and the latter two never issued on CD in the US, than to have repackaged this "best of" collection for the gazillionth time. While these songs are all classics, it is unfathomable why A&M seems intent on repackaging the same dozen or so Joan Baez songs every couple of years under a new title.

That said, this is a great collection of classic songs by one of the most talented and courageous artists of our generation, and a good selection to purchase, if you're a new or casual fan, as it has all the "hits. ".


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