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Joan Baez - Any Day Now Audio CD

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Joan Baez Band: Joan Baez
Title: Any Day Now
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Release Date: 2005-02-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Love Minus Zero/No Limit 2: North Country Blues 3: You Ain't Going Nowhere 4: Drifter's Escape 5: I Pity the Poor Immigrant 6: Tears of Rage 7: Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands 8: Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word 9: I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine 10: Walls of Redwing 11: Dear Landlord 12: One Too Many Mornings 13: I Shall Be Released 14: Boots of Spanish Leather 15: Walkin' Down the Line 16: Restless Farewell 17: Blowin' in the Wind [Live][*] 18: It Ain't Me Babe [Live][*]

Joan will sing Bob Dylan Any Day Now
Any Day Now or Baez Sings Dylan are two albums where Joan sings all Bob Dylan songs so take your pick! Both are great as you cant go wrong with Joan or Bob or Joan singing Bob!.


Masterpiece enhanced
I heard some of Dylan's songs here first and only later experienced his own versions, for example I Dreamed I Saw St. This is an album of appealing Dylan interpretations and it's enlightening to hear his work from a female perspective. Augustine which is definitely very different (and more beautiful to me) in Baez's version.

Other great tracks include I Pity The Poor Immigrant (still as relevant as ever), Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word, the heart-breaking Walls Of Redwing (about inmates in a jail), One Too Many Mornings, Boots Of Spanish Leather and Restless Farewell.

Everything about this album is just SO RIGHT: her phrasing, the choice of songs and her elegant delivery. This is a classic folk album of the 1960s and also essential listening for Dylan fans. I love it. This re-issue contains two live bonus tracks that were recorded in Japan. .


A solid cover album and an intimate tribute
As is often the case with cover albums, some of the songs hit harder and better than others, but Baez couldn't have chosen a better oeuvre to sample, so most of the lulls are due to performance issues. Any Day Now finds Joan Baez backed by a decidedly pop ensemble, covering the 60's folk and folk-rock songs of her one-time lover Bob Dylan. All in all, though, if you like Joan Baez and/or Bob Dylan, Any Day Now is a great choice.

As the album opens, it's clear that this music is not the stripped-down folk that typifies earlier Baez recordings. She's accompanied by steel guitar, drums, electric guitar and. . . sitar? It's interesting to hear Joan backed by a pop ensemble and, for the most part, it works.

The less-convincing numbers on this album are mainly due to Baez's choice of songs. It's not that the songs are bad, they just don't fit her as well as they could. For instance, Baez's calculated, classic, vibrato-heavy singing voice has a little trouble relaxing the way Dylan would on "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere. " "Live Minus Zero/No Limit" is slightly bizarre, since it's sung about a woman, as is "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. " The latter was an epic, mysterious love song on Blonde on Blonde, but for Baez it makes you wonder why she's singing an 11+ minute love song to a woman. "Tears Of Rage," though it's admirable that Baez makes an artistic risk to sing the entire tune a cappella isn't all successful--this version doesn't come close to touching The Band's definitive rendition, or even Gene Clark's excellent version (from White Light).

Though Baez doesn't perfectly match up with some of Dylan's songs, she breathes new life and meaning into several of them. She brings gritty reality to the dark ballad "North Country Blues," and her arrangement brings new narrative life and emotion to the classic "Boots of Spanish Leather. " Likewise, she chooses some lesser-known Dylan songs like "Love is Just a Four-Letter Word," "Walls of Redwing" and "Walkin' Down the Line," that bring a few surprises and mix things up a bit.

Any Day Now was originally a double album--it's great that it all fits onto one disc, even with two (disposable) bonus tracks to boot. Overall, I think it's a worthwhile album, with some excellent interpretations of Dylan's songs that occasionally brings them into new, unique light. .


Joan Baez Remastered
Dylan). i've always loved Joan Baez's cover versions of Dylan songs (except for one: the Hard Rain's gonna fall version on her Europe '83 album where she tries to immitate Mr. it's nice to see a few bonus tracks on this re-release on CD.

JohPWilbrand.


Any Day Now, Joan Baez
For being a 1968 release it took me long enough to find it, but I think it is an excellent cd and for any Joan Baez and Bob Dylan fans it will be a perfect fit.


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