Joan Baez - How Sweet The Sound
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Artist: Joan BaezEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-10-13
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
- Man Smart Woman Smarter
- I Never Will Marry
- Barbara Allen
- Silver Dagger
- Fennario
- Oh Freedom
- With God On Our Side
- A Song for David
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Duet w/ Bob Dylan)
- Carry It On
- Diamonds & Rust
- Love Song To A Stranger
- Day After Tomorrow
- Jerusalem
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Music Review: For The Fans
Rating: 4 Stars
This companion piece to the fine American Masters program of the same title is a historical record of a lifetime of music and activism. It includes a couple of polished, slick tracks from studio albums (ONE DAY AT A TIME, BLESSED ARE...), but is otherwise made up of previously unreleased live recordings from Baez concerts spanning the decades. The quality of the sound varies (Barbara Allen the poorest, the studio stuff the clearest), but Joan's fans (this fan, anyway) will consider this recording a welcome, sweet gift from a gifted artist. Anyone who owns or has enjoyed the boxed set, RARE, LIVE & CLASSIC, will like this collection; its almost an addendum to that anthology (most of the repeated songs are different performances).
In her earliest period, when her voice was at its purest, Baez was excruciatingly serious, but at the same time, there was a sweetness that balanced the cold, detached quality of songs that were often hundreds of years old. She connected with these old melodies in a special way that turned them from museum artifacts into compelling stories, deeply felt and communicated. Back then, I sometimes got the feeling Joan was singing only to me -- they seemed that intimate. Although I've moved on to an extremely broad range of music, and collected every kind of music imaginable, I credit Joan Baez for sparking my love of music at the age of seven (1960), and so, along with just a handful of others whose careers have been almost as long (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ian Tyson), I've kept up with her career. There are many touchstones here, some welcome (Joan's own "Song For David," Tom Waits' "Day After Tomorrow" from her latest release, here represented in a live version), some not so (the long, musically boring "With God On Our Side," the nasal, inexplicable hit, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"), but as a whole, reviewing Joan's 50-year long career on this brief CD was lovely. I even enjoyed, warts and all, the raucous, live duet with Bob Dylan, "I Pity The Poor Immigrant." The shining highlight of this collection is a 2009 live recording of the self-penned, "Love Song To A Stranger," accompanied by guitar and piano. Even with a voice revealing some of the inevitable wear and tear of time, this performance rivals the studio version, recorded over thirty years earlier!
I recommend this CD in tandem with the DVD, which has around 90 minutes worth of bonus material, not seen on the PBS airing of HOW SWEET THE SOUND. Get the Deluxe DVD Edition (it's only a couple of bucks more), and you'll have both the film and the CD soundtrack.
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Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound" Original Soundtrack includes material spanning Joan's career, including many rare, previously unreleased performances.Folk CDs
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