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Joan Baez - Greatest Hits
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Artist(s)Joan Baez
StudioA&M
Release DateMay 7, 1996
UPC Code731454051026
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About Joan Baez - Joan Baez - Greatest Hits

Before Joan Baez, the closest thing to a white female folksinger was Jo Stafford. Baez made her professional debut in 1959 at the Newport Folk Festival and started recording for Vanguard the next year. Her early association with Bob Dylan and performances of his songs did him no harm. The material in this CD comes from later in her career, when she had left Vanguard for A&M. Listeners who enjoy this CD will probably want to hear her earlier work. She is among the classic American voices. --Stanley Booth Amazon.com essential recording

Tracks

  1. Diamonds And Rust
  2. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
  3. Simple Twist Of Fate
  4. Imagine
  5. In The Quiet Morning (For Janis Joplin)
  6. Best Of Friends
  7. Forever Young
  8. Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
  9. Jesse
  10. Children And All That Jazz
  11. Please Come To Boston
  12. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
  13. Gracias A La Vida
  14. Sweeter For Me
  15. Love Song To A Stranger
  16. Dida
  17. Amazing Grace
  18. The Ballad Of Sacco & Vanzetti (La Ballata Di Sacco E Vanzetti)
  19. Oh Happy Day
  20. Less Than The Song

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User Reviews

Average user review: 3.5 (34 reviews)

rating: 4 QuoteGood collection, but a couple of correctionsQuote
'Greatest Hits' is a good (not perfect) overview of Joan's A&M years - which, other reviewers fail to understand, do not encompass her popular 1971 Blessed Are... album (the one that includes the original version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.") By the way, I recommend Ace Records' Best of the Vanguard Years to survey Joan's early years. All of her original Vanguard LP's have been reissued, too.

But, my point here to is correct two aspects of the liner notes and track selection. First, the version of "Forever Young" included here is not the original 1974 single version (though that's what the liner notes claim). Rather, it's the live version on From Every Stage (1976). Too bad - the single is better. Note that you can download the original studio version from her Complete A&M Recordings collection.

Second, the version of "Dida" included here is the jazzy 1975 version (from Diamonds & Rust with Joni Mitchell and Tom Scott. The liner notes claim it's the original 1974 version from Gracias a la Vida. Which, IMHO, is a good thing - but the liner notes are incorrect... September 8, 2008

rating: 4 QuoteJOAN BAEZ IN THE 1970s,Quote
There is only one voice of Joan Baez. Her protest songs of the 1960s were her best in my opinion. July 21, 2008

rating: 4 QuoteLeft me wantingQuote
This is a great CD but the live performance of " AMAZING GRACE " was disapointing. May 23, 2008

rating: 1 QuoteDisappointing....Quote
This was very disappointing. "Amazing Grace" was a sing-a-long. Just awful. I don't want to hear sing-a-long over and over on a recording!!! I'd get "Diamonds and Rust" if I could do it over again. May 8, 2008

rating: 5 QuoteJoan Baez - Greatest HitsQuote
EXCELLENT. Very, very satisfied. Will definitely order again.

sgr
Chapel Hill,NC December 12, 2007

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