TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Joan Baez
Joan Baez
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.9516
Joan Baez Album Rankings
1
At the time of its release, Joan Baez's debut album was something of a revelation.
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2
With the Vietnam War winding down, Joan Baez, who had devoted one side of her last album to her trip to Hanoi, delivered the kind of commercial album A&M Records must have wanted when it signed her th
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3
Blessed Are...was arguably Joan Baez's greatest artistic triumph, the commercial and aesthetic high point of her career and certainly of her decade at Vanguard Records.
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4
The First 10 Yearsis an excellent overview of Joan Baez's first decade of recording, balancing her work as an interpreter of both traditional and contemporary folk songs.
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5
One of the oft-overlooked aspects of Joan Baez's career in the '60s is that after the first four albums, she never did the same thing twice; what's more, with the possible exception of theBaptismalbum
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7
Grasslands, wind in your hair, long, dusty roads travelled - it's all evoked in Joan's fine 24th studio album, and her voice, high and flowing, low and gravelly, flows timelessly through it like a mou
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8
This Vanguard release is a heartwarmingly intimate look at Joan Baez during her most influential period (1960-1963).
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9
Joan Baez's second album, recorded when she was 20 years old, is a hearty helping of folk masterpieces that give ample evidence to exactly how she was established as a leader of the contemporary folk
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10
Joan Baez has never before recorded a song quite like "Stones in the Road," Mary-Chapin Carpenter's bluntly cynical assessment of the yuppie generation.
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11
Originally released in 1962,In Concert, Pt. 1captures the undisputed queen of folk music at the onset of her fabled career.
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12
Mining the same classical chamberpop as contemporaries Procul Harum, Alex Spyropoulos' and Patrick Campbell-Lyons' charges cut...
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13
By late 1965, most members of the folk community were feeling the pressure of a changing music world -- between presence of folk-rock bands like the Byrds and newer outfits like the Beau Brummels and
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16
Joan was very much an album of its time in terms of its sound and production, more so than any other album that Joan Baez ever recorded.
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17
Joan Baez's most unusual album, Baptism is of a piece with the "concept" albums of the late '60s, but more ambitious than most and different from all of them.
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19
Joan Baez started working with Nashville musicians in October of 1968, with the combined sessions that yielded Any Day Now -- her still highly respected showcase of Bob Dylan songs -- and David's Alb
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24
A soundtrack interspersing acoustic live performances with politically oriented dialog, much of which is spoken by her then-husband, draft resister David Harris.
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33
While this two-record live set will delight Baez devotees, it is not likely to win new friends or influence new people.
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36
A vibrant concert recording with a radiant sound, humor, and topicality.
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38
By the mid-'90s, Joan Baez had been around long enough to assume the mantle of grand matron of the folk scene.
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44
Although it doesn't have the unified sense of purpose of Play Me Backwards, Gone from Danger is an appealing latter-day effort from Joan Baez that proves she has lost none of her talent for creating
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48
Except for their swell debut hit single, "Sultans of Swing," in 1979, the British band Dire Straits has never come as much of a surprise.
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49
This album draws tracks from Joan Baez's appearances at the 1963, 1964, and 1965 Newport Folk Festivals, a time period in which she was the very epicenter of the folk scene.
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51
Joan Baez 5 was where the singer's music experienced its first major blossoming.
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52
This is supposed to be the album that thrusts Joan Baez into the pop mainstream and it does, in a way.
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53
On her second album for CBS's Portrait label (and her last new album issued in the U.S.
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