“Joan Baez” by Joan Baez - album review

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TJR says

Simple and effective, 13 old folk songs, one singer, one guitar. Joan’s intense reading of Roberto Cantoral’s “Ninth Prisoner” does strange things to my spinal cord. She described her debut thus: “…It took four days. We recorded it in the ballroom of some hotel in New York, way up by the river. We could use the room every day except Tuesday, because they played Bingo there on Tuesdays. It was just me on this filthy rug. There were two microphones, one for the voice and one for the guitar. I just did my set. It was probably all I knew how to do at that point. I did ‘Mary Hamilton’ once and that was it…That’s the way we made ’em in the old days. As long as a dog didn’t run through the room or something, you had it…”

The Jukebox Rebel
02–Nov–2008

Tracklist
A1 [02:42] 6.4.png Joan Baez - Silver Dagger (Traditional) Folk
A2 [03:41] 5.7.png Joan Baez - East Virginia (Traditional) Folk
A3 [03:20] 6.3.png Joan Baez - Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles) (Traditional) Folk
A4 [02:55] 7.3.png Joan Baez - House Of The Rising Sun (Traditional) Folk
A5 [04:38] 7.5.png Joan Baez - All My Trials (Traditional) Folk
A6 [02:36] 6.7.png Joan Baez - Wildwood Flower (Traditional) Folk
A7 [03:15] 8.0.png Joan Baez - Donna Donna (Sholom Secunda, Aaron Zeitlin, Arthur Kevess, Teddi Schwartz) Folk
B1 [03:51] 6.6.png Joan Baez - John Riley (Traditional) Folk
B2 [01:58] 5.8.png Joan Baez - Rake And Rambling Boy (Traditional) Folk
B3 [03:28] 6.5.png Joan Baez - Little Moses (Traditional) Folk
B4 [05:53] 7.0.png Joan Baez - Mary Hamilton (Traditional) Folk
B5 [04:12] 6.3.png Joan Baez - Henry Martin (Traditional) Folk
B6 [02:45] 9.7.png Joan Baez - El Preso Número Nueve (Roberto Cantoral) Folk

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