David's Album Joan Baez and 11 similar items

The 33 record is in great condition. The sleeve has wear on the edges. Shipped the next business day! We own a small family book store and sell our extra books and media that have been on our shelves for too long. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: TITLE : David's Album ARTIST : Joan Baez FORMAT : Long Play Record LABEL : Vanguard RECORD # : VSD-79308 DATE : 1969 NOTES: ... Not surprisingly, David's Album has all kinds of veiled topical resonances -- "If I Knew" was a heartfelt peace anthem that surely opens the album because of what it seems to say for Harris, while "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" (which got further exposure as a single B-side in 1970), one of the most beautiful songs that Baez ever recorded (featuring her harmonizing with Mimi Fariña), and "Tramp on the Street" are both tributes to all of the politically and financially dispossessed of the era; it was the kind of repertoire that used to get full-blooded country performers like Johnny Cash suspected of being leftists in the ultra-right country music mecca, but if Baez managed to mute the topical edge of such songs, it was only because they were sandwiched in between inspired renditions of more typical country fare such as "Green, Green Grass of Home" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" and the gospel standard "Just a Closer Walk With Thee." The latter is, incidentally, this album's masterpiece, opening with an a cappella Baez introduction, joined by a gospel organ before the band comes in. The album also had an almost preternaturally early cover of Gram Parsons' "Hickory Wind," which hadn't been out all that long at the time. All of this may sound very quaint 40 years on, but in 1969 it was a very potent message, and the singing and playing still hold up. Baez also sets aside some of her occasional stridency here, in favor of a more relaxed performance that shows her in the most engaging manner of her career on numbers like "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (where she's joined by the Jordanaires) and the Parsons song. David Harris is long since out of jail, and he and Baez parted, but it's still an excellent album. (AMG)