Joan Baez

Давайте поговорим об этой замечательной певице.
О том, как она здорово поет, о ее песнях, ее личности, о выступлении на Вудстоке, о том как здорово она исполняла не только свои, но и чужие песни, о многом другом...

Joan Baez

1959
Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square


1960
Joan Baez

1961
Joan Baez, Vol. 2

1963
Joan Baez in Concert,
Pt. 1 [Vangaurd 1963]

1963
Joan Baez in Concert,
Pt. 2 [live]

1964
Five

1965
Farewell, Angelina

1966
Noël

1967
Joan

1968
Any Day Now

1968
Baptism

1969
David's Album

1969
Joan Baez in San Francisco [live]


1970
In Concert 2 [live]


1970
One Day at a Time

1971
Sacco and Vanzetti [Original Soundtrack]


1971
Blessed Are

1971
Carry It On

1972
Come from the Shadows


1972
Joan Baez Ballad Book


1973
Where Are You Now, My Son?


1974
Gracias a La Vida
[Here's to Life]

1975
Live in Japan


1975
Diamonds & Rust

1975
The Lovesong Album


1976
Gulf Winds


1976
From Every Stage [live]

1976
Joan Baez in Concert [live]

1977
Blowin' Away

1978
House of the Rising Sun


1979
The Joan Baez Country Music Album

1979
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


1979
Honest Lullaby

1980
Live in Concert: European Tour


1983
Live in Europe '83: Children of the Eighties


1987
The Contemporary Ballad Book


1988
Recently

1989
Speaking of Dreams

1989
Diamonds & Rust
in the Bullring [live]

1990
Ballad Book, Vol. 2


1991
Brothers in Arms


1992
Play Me Backwards

1995
Ring Them Bells [live]

1996
Live at Newport

1997
Gone from Danger

1999
Live in Europe '83: Children of the Eighties...

2001
Joan Baez [Expanded]


2001
Joan Baez, Vol. 2 [Expanded

The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the 1960s, Joan Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late '50s, she has put in the service of folk and pop music as well as a variety of political causes. Starting out in Boston, Baez first gained recognition at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, then cut her debut album, Joan Baez (October 1960), for Vanguard Records. It was made up of 13 traditional songs, some of them children's ballads, given near-definitive treatment. A moderate success on release, the album took off after the breakthrough of Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (September 1961), and both albums became huge hits, as did Baez's third album, Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 1 (September 1962). Each album went gold and stayed in the bestseller charts more than two years.

From 1962 to 1964, Baez was the popular face of folk music, headlining festivals and concert tours and singing at political events, including the August 1963 March on Washington. During this period, she began to champion the work of folk songwriter Bob Dylan, and gradually her repertoire moved from traditional material toward the socially conscious work of the emerging generation of '60s artists like him. Her albums of this period were Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 2 (November 1963) and Joan Baez 5 (October 1964), which contained her cover of Phil Ochs' "There But for Fortune," a Top Ten hit in the U.K.

Like other popular folk performers, Baez was affected by the changes in popular music wrought by the appearance of the Beatles in the U.S. in 1964 and Dylan's introduction of folk-rock in 1965, and she began to augment her simple acoustic guitar backing with other instruments, initially on Farewell, Angelina (October 1965). It was followed by a Christmas album, Noël (October 1966), and Joan (August 1967), albums on which she was accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Peter Schickele. Baez continued to experiment in the late '60s, releasing Baptism (June 1968), in which she recited poetry, and Any Day Now (December 1968), a double album of Dylan songs done with country backing, which went gold.

In March 1968, Baez had married antiwar protest leader David Harris, who was imprisoned as a draft evader. Harris was a country music fan, and Baez's turn toward country, which continued on David's Album (June 1969) and One Day at a Time (March 1970), reflected his taste. Blessed Are... (August 1971) was a gold-selling double album that spawned a gold Top Ten hit in Baez's cover of the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." It was followed by Carry It On (December 1971), the soundtrack to a documentary about Baez and Harris. Baez switched record label affiliation to A&M Records with Come from the Shadows (May 1972), which moved her in a more pop direction. Where Are You Now, My Son? (May 1973) included sounds taped during Baez's visit to Hanoi in December 1972.

In the late '60s and early '70s, Baez moved toward pop/rock music and also began to write her own songs, culminating in the gold-selling Diamonds & Rust (April 1975), which was followed by the entirely self-written Gulf Winds (October 1976). Baez moved to the Portrait label of CBS Records with Blowin' Away (June 1977), but she left the label after Honest Lullaby (May 1979), and her next album, European Tour (1980), was released only outside the U.S. It was another seven years before she found an American record label, Gold Castle, for Recently (1987), which was followed by the live album Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (January 1989) and Speaking of Dreams (October 1989). Baez moved to Virgin Records for Play Me Backwards (August 1992).

In 1993, Vanguard released Rare, Live & Classic, a three-CD boxed set retrospective. Ring Them Bells, a live album on which Baez was joined by musical descendants like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Indigo Girls, came out on Guardian Records in 1995. Gone from Danger, her first studio album in five years, followed in 1997, and it was another six years before the release of Dark Chords on a Big Guitar in 2003. A November 2004 concert in New York was documented on the 2005 release Bowery Songs.

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez

О, Теодор, ты меня опередил. Я тоже как раз хотела открыть тему про Джоан Баэз.
Я так долго готовила эфир про нее, что теперь чувствую себя просто главным специалистом по Джоан :)
Но она просто потрясающая!!! Надеюсь мне удалось передать эти сови чувства в эфире.
Эх, когда же она приедет к нам с концертом?!

Всем, кто интересуется ее творчеством - для начала зайдите сюда:
http://joanbaez.com/
Это ее официальный сайт.

P.S. Как вам эфир? ;)

Хороший. Лично я послушал музыку,которую редко можно услышать в FM-диапазоне. Нового правда ничего не узнал,но всё же приятно было послушать.

Жива ли еще старушка?

Wallrussian

Старушка жива!

Жива-здорова :)

2McKenzie:

>Bob Dylan and Joan Baez

Прям такая советская семейка 70-х :)

2Wallrussian:

>Жива ли еще старушка?

2005
концерт в Golden Gate Park

это был фестиваль Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

2Mary:

>P.S. Как вам эфир? ;)

Почти все прозвучавшие песни я слышал, а вот за информацию (и за подачу!) спасибо! Наконец-то получил целостное представление о ее жизни и творчестве. И вообще здорово, что наконец затронули эту тему.

А нет ли у кого сканов пластинок, выходивших в СССР? Интересно было бы взглянуть.

Как же здорово звучали её песни на Вудстоке"69. "Sweet sir Galahad" и "Joe Hill" просто шедевры. И народ слушал в такой тишине,столько народу. Невероятно.

2 TheodorЖ к сожалению, пока советскую пластинку конца 60-х в стиле "зе бест оф" найти не удалось.
На данный момент есть лишь lovesongs, noel и joan baez.

Theodor
<А нет ли у кого сканов пластинок, выходивших в СССР? Интересно было бы взглянуть.

LP. Ленинградская Мелодия. Куплен мной в 1984г. в Омске по госцене 1р.45к.

Тираж 860. Аннотация - Г. Шнеерсон.

2Thermidor
Я Вам, конечно же, верю, но, вообще, удивительно, что Вы смогли купить эту лицензионную пластинку в 1984 году, поскольку она была выпущена на фирме "Мелодия" еще в 1970 году. Именно поэтому на нее сохранилась и такая низкая цена - 1 р. 45 коп.
Позже стоимость лицензионных пластинок в СССР поднялась до 2 р. 15 коп., а в ламинированных конвертах - до 2 р. 70 коп.

Theodor to Thermidor:

Спасибо, как раз то что нужно!
Давно не читал советских рецензий! :)