''Joan'' is the seventh studio album by
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more ...
, released in 1967. Having exhausted the standard voice/guitar folksong format by 1967, Baez collaborated with arranger-conductor
Peter Schickele (with whom she'd worked on the 1966
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album, ''
Noël''), on an album of orchestrated covers of mostly then-current pop and rock and roll songs. Works by
Donovan,
Paul Simon,
Tim Hardin
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, the
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, and
Richard Fariña were included, as well as selections by
Jacques Brel and
Edgar Allan Poe.
The recording of "
Children of Darkness" was a tribute to Baez's brother-in-law, novelist and musician
Richard Fariña, who had been killed in a motorcycle accident a year earlier.
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in the latter country's bid for independence.
The 2003 Vanguard reissue contains two bonus tracks: "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread" and "Autumn Leaves".
Cover
According to the liner notes on the 2003 reissue, in the cover photo of Baez, she was actually lying down. A candid photo taken during recording sessions while she was resting between songs was spun around so it looked as though she was sitting or standing upright. The photo was by French photographer Alain Gaveau, with whom she was romantically attached at the time. He also contributed the photo for her previous album, ''Noel'' and her book ''Daybreak''.
[Joan Baez, ]
And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir
', Simon and Schuster, 2012, p. 129 (via Google Books) Accessed February 20, 2017.
Track listing
Side one
#"Be Not Too Hard" (
Donovan, lyrics:
Christopher Logue
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Born in Portsmouth, H ...
)
#"
Eleanor Rigby" (
John Lennon,
Paul McCartney)
#"
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" (Donovan)
#"La Colombe (The Dove)" (
Jacques Brel)
#"
Dangling Conversation" (
Paul Simon)
#"
The Lady Came from Baltimore" (
Tim Hardin
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)
#"North" (
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more ...
, Nina Dusheck)
Side two
#"Children of Darkness" (
Richard Fariña)
#"
The Greenwood Side" (Traditional)
#"
If You Were a Carpenter" (Hardin)
#"
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" (Don Dilworth; lyrics:
Edgar Allan Poe)
#"Saigon Bride" (Baez, Dusheck)
Personnel
*
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more ...
– vocals, guitar
*
Peter Schickele – arranger, conductor
Chart positions
References
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1967 albums
Joan Baez albums
Albums produced by Maynard Solomon
Albums arranged by Peter Schickele
Albums conducted by Peter Schickele
Vanguard Records albums