
Ballads of a Lonesome Wildwood Flower (Remastered) Joan Baez
Album info
Album-Release:
2020
HRA-Release:
02.10.2020
Album including Album cover
- 1 Banks of the Ohio 03:07
- 2 House of the Rising Sun 02:53
- 3 Lonesome Road 02:21
- 4 Silver Dagger 02:29
- 5 All my Trials 04:37
- 6 Barbara Allen 04:16
- 7 Henry Martin 04:10
- 8 Mary Hamilton 05:53
- 9 John Riley 03:51
- 10 Wildwood Flower 02:34
- 11 Donna Donna 03:10
- 12 Wagoner's Lad 02:12
- 13 East Virginia 03:40
- 14 The Trees grow high 02:57
- 15 El preso numero nueve 02:47
- 16 The Lily of the West 03:19
- 17 Engine 143 03:30
- 18 The Cherry Tree Carol 03:28
- 19 Lillte Moses 03:28
- 20 Old Blue 02:34
- 21 Ten Thousand Miles 03:18
- 22 Pal of Mine 02:47
- 23 Silkie 03:57
- 24 Railroad Boy 02:28
- 25 Rake and rambling Boy 01:56
- 26 Plaisir D'Amour - Joy of Love 03:06
Info for Ballads of a Lonesome Wildwood Flower (Remastered)
Six decades after becoming a regular on the coffee house scene that was emerging around Club 47 in Cambridge, MA, Joan Baez determined that “2018 will be my last year of formal extended touring.” With her 2017 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction topping off a lifetime of awards and honors for her recordings and human rights achievements around the globe, the symmetry of Joan’s decision reverberates. “I’m looking forward to being on the road with a beautiful new album about which I am truly proud,” she said. “I welcome the oppor¬tun¬ity to share this new music as well as longtime favorites with my audiences around the world.”
She remains a musical force of nature, and an artist of incalculable influence. Her mission has never wavered in sixty years. Commenting on the song “I Wish The Wars Were All Over,” from her new album Whistle Down The Wind, Joan asks, “Will a better world come? I don’t know. But we have to do our work for a just and loving society whether the end comes tomorrow or whether we are still holding fast for generations to come.”
Whistle Down The Wind, Joan’s first new studio album in a decade, gathers material by some of her favorite composers, from Tom Waits (“Whistle Down The Wind,” “Last Leaf”) and Josh Ritter (“Be Of Good Heart,” “Silver Blade”), to Eliza Gilkyson (“The Great Correction”) and Mary Chapin Carpenter (“The Things That We Are Made Of”). Ritter’s “Silver Blade” has been described by Joan as “a bookend to ‘Silver Dagger’ [the first song on her self-titled debut LP of 1960] at the end of this nearly sixty-year career … like something I would have picked up in Club 47 when I was 18.” ...
Joan Baez, guitar, vocals
Digitally remastered
Joan Baez
born on January 9th, 1941, is an American folk singer/songwriter of mixed Mexican and Scottish descent. Baez rose to prominence in the early '60s with her stunning renditions of traditional balladry.
In the late '60s and early '70s, Baez came into her songwriting own, penning many songs (most notably "Diamonds & Rust," a nostalgic piece about her ill-fated romance with Bob Dylan, and "Sweet Sir Galahad," a song about her late sister Mimi Fariña's second marriage) and continued to meld her songcraft with topical issues. She was outspoken in her disapproval of the Vietnam war and later the CIA-backed coups in many Latin American countries.
She was also instrumental in the Civil Rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King on many occassions and being jailed for her beliefs. In 1963, her performance of "We Shall Overcome" at the Lincoln Memorial just prior to Dr. King's famous "I Have A Dream..." speech helped turn the song into a Civil Rights anthem.
In December 1972, she traveled to Hanoi, North Vietnam, and was caught in that country's "Christmas Campaign," in which the U.S. bombed the city more times than any other during the entire war. While pregnant with her only son, Gabriel, she performed a handful of songs in the middle of the night on day one of the 1969 Woodstock festival. She is considered the "Queen of Folk" for being at the forefront of the 1960s folk revival and inspiring generations of female folksingers that followed. Nearly fifty years after she first began singing publicly in 1958, Joan Baez continues to tour, demonstrate in favor of human rights and nonviolence, and release albums for a world of devoted fans.
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