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Joan Baez
Joan Baez
(Vanguard, 1960)
Debut set from soaring Staten Island soprano. A '60s heroine is born...
This week is Folk Week on MOJO, and every Disc Of The Day will have a folk or folk-rock bent.
New York. Summer 1960. With her guitar in hand, the young Joan Baez escapes the sweltering city heat and enters the penthouse ballroom of the Manhattan Towers Hotel. Over the course of the next four days she will record 19 songs. Weavers’ guitarist Fred Hellerman (far right) will accompany her on six cuts, but it is Baez’s chiming finger-picking and octave-traversing soprano that fill each track with the elegance, purity and power that would soon cement her folk icon status. Baez delivers her versions of songs by The Carter Family and Josh White with a clarity and confidence that belies her 19 years. It would be her take on such lilting ballads as All My Trials, Silver Dagger and Mary Hamilton that would inspire legions of coffeehouse-dwelling beatniks throughout the decade ahead. The clarion calls of Joan Baez even managed to cross the Atlantic, where a teenager from the North East of England, one Eric Victor Burdon, heard the Staten Island-born songstress singing trad-anthem House Of The Rising Sun. Like so many others, the future Animal heard something defiant and magical in her voice. Her march into the ‘60s started here.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 29/04/2008
Further Listening
Joan Baez – Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (Vanguard, 1961)
Peter, Paul & Mary – Peter, Paul & Mary (Warner Bros., 1962)
Kate Rusby – 10 (Pure, 2002)
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