Name: Joan par Joan Baez
Brand: Joan Baez
SKU: 015707972055
Price: 9.9 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 3 (98 reviews)

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Joan was very much an album of its time in terms of its sound and production, more so than any other album that Joan Baez ever recorded. In 1967, rock, folk, folk-rock, and pop all seemed to be headed in new and ever-more-ornate directions, and Joan was a response to that change and, not coincidentally, is also the most self-consciously beautiful record that Baez ever cut. Arranger/conductor Peter Schickele, who had previously worked with Baez on her Christmas album, provides generally restrained orchestral accompaniment on ten of the 12 songs here. The latter, in sharp contrast to Baez's earlier work, are mostly drawn from a wide range of such popular composers as John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Donovan, Paul Simon, and Jacques Brel, as well as Tim Hardin and Baez's late brother-in-law, Richard Farina. Several of these tracks -- "Turquoise" with its gorgeous parts for the harps and the horns, "Children of Darkness" with its beautiful writing for the reeds, and "Saigon Bride" with its haunting brass part -- are profoundly beautiful. Others, such as "Eleanor Rigby" and "Dangling Conversation," don't come off nearly as well, in part because they're competing against fairly ornate originals and also -- in the case of the Paul Simon song -- because of Baez's decision to alter the words. If Joan has one unfortunate attribute, it lies in the singer's Sinatra-like tendency to alter the lyrics of the songs that she's chosen to cover, if only by a single word ("is the theater really dead" becomes "is the church really dead," for no reason that anyone but the singer has ever been able to fathom); that and her overly strident singing (mated to an overly strident brass-laden arrangement) of Jacques Brel's "La Colombe" constitute the low point of this otherwise very fine album. Additionally, Baez shows off the two earliest-published products of her career as a songwriter, in the form of "North" and "Saigon Bride," the latter a particularly poignant anti-war song that expresses the futility of the Vietnam War about as well as anything this side of Phil Ochs' "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land." ~ Bruce Eder

1. Be Not Too Hard

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

2. Eleanor Rigby

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

3. Turquoise

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

4. La Colombe-The Dove

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

5. Dangling Conversation

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

6. The Lady Came From Baltimore

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

7. North

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

8. Children Of Darkness

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Richard Farina; Compositeur
Parolier: Richard Farina; Compositeur
Composer Lyricist: Richard Farina; Autre

9. The Greenwood Side

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

10. If You Were A Carpenter

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

11. Annabel Lee

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

12. Saigon Bride

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

13. Oh, Had I A Golden Thread

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

14. Autumn Leaves

par Joan Baez

Artiste Principal: Joan Baez; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Unknown; Compositeur

Spécifications techniques

Volume

1 volume uniquement

Titres

14 titres disponibles

Type

ALBUM

Format

Médias numériques

Durée

50 minutes et 33 secondes

Explicite

Aucun

Image de couverture

Disponible et jusqu'à 1400x1400 px

Livret

Non disponible

Qualité maximale

Qualité CD (Sans perte)

16bit / 44.1 kHz

Stéréo

Extension audio

Sans perte: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF

Avec perte: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA

Format d'archivage

Disponible dans ces formats : ZIP, TAR, RAR

Paroles

Toutes les titres ont des paroles

Paroles synchronisées

10/14 titres ont des paroles synchronisées

Genres

Folk, Americana, Chanteur et auteur-compositeur, Folk traditionnel, Folk contemporain, Folk-Rock, Folk Revival, Political Folk & Protest Songs, Singer-Songwriter

Label

Vanguard Records

Service de distribution de musique

UMG Global

Pays

États-Unis

Langue

Anglais (États-Unis)

Popularité

Date de sortie

31 déc. 1966

Aperçu du titre

Disponible

Frais de livraison

Gratuit

Méthode de livraison

Lien de téléchargement numérique via e-mail ou tableau de bord personnel sur ce site

UPC

15707972055

Panier d'achats

Notification

Joan

1. Be Not Too Hard

2. Eleanor Rigby

3. Turquoise

4. La Colombe-The Dove

5. Dangling Conversation

6. The Lady Came From Baltimore

7. North

8. Children Of Darkness

9. The Greenwood Side

10. If You Were A Carpenter

11. Annabel Lee

12. Saigon Bride

13. Oh, Had I A Golden Thread

14. Autumn Leaves

Spécifications techniques

Joan

Informations sur le produit

Options de diffusion

1. Be Not Too Hard

2. Eleanor Rigby

3. Turquoise

4. La Colombe-The Dove

5. Dangling Conversation

6. The Lady Came From Baltimore

7. North

8. Children Of Darkness

9. The Greenwood Side

10. If You Were A Carpenter

11. Annabel Lee

12. Saigon Bride

13. Oh, Had I A Golden Thread

14. Autumn Leaves

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