Joan Baez Joan Baez Vol. 2 DMM 180g Import 2LP (Vinyl)

Grammy Award-Winning Artist! Certified Gold Albums!
Peace Activist, Folk's Leading Lady!
Includes "Silver Dagger", "House of the Rising Sun", "Engine 143", "Pal of Mine" & More!

Joan's commitment to quality and depth of feeling constitutes the musical heart of her career. It’s often said that great singers can sing anything and hold our attention, but that’s not true. The greater the singer, the more they need songs worthy of their talent, whether they write them themselves or identify them among the work of others. Baez has taken songs light-hearted and darkly intense, politically trenchant and touchingly personal, and explored every aspect of their meaning and emotion. The glories of such artistry are one essential part of the better world Joan Baez has long fought to bring about. And that is one reason why she is not simply an “American Master,” but a worldwide and world-class one.

She remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable - marching on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr., inspiring Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, singing on the first Amnesty International tour and standing alongside Nelson Mandela when the world celebrated his 90th birthday in London's Hyde Park. She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war. Her earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular, before she unselfconsciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963 and focused awareness on songwriters ranging from Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Phil Ochs, Richard Farina, and Tim Hardin, to Kris Kristofferson and Mickey Newbury, to Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, Steve Earle and many more.

She recorded her first solo LP for Vanguard Records in the summer of 1960, the beginning of a prolific 14-album, 12-year association with the label. Her earliest records, with their mix of traditional ballads and blues, lullabies, Carter Family songs, Weavers and Woody Guthrie songs, cowboy tunes, ethnic folk staples of American and non-American vintage, and much more - won strong followings in the US and abroad.

"At the time of its release, Joan Baez's debut album was something of a revelation. The folk music revival was beginning to gather steam...then along comes this album, by a 19-year-old who looked more like the kind of coed every mother dreamt her son would come home with, displaying a voice from heaven, a soprano so pure and beguiling that the mere act of listening to her -- forget what she was singing -- was a pleasure." - Bruce Eder, allmusic.com

"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 scene of the day. The material chosen is truly exceptional... Baez is a true master of her craft... the 14 interpretations here are as timeless as the songs themselves. Similar to Bob Dylan's self-titled debut, this is an album that all fans of traditional folk music should seek out." - Matt Fink, allmusic.com

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Direct Metal Master
• Made in the E.U.
• Grammy Award Winner
• Joan Baez & Joan Baez Vol. 2 - Certified Gold Albums

Selections:
Joan Baez
LP1 - Side 1:
1. Silver Dagger
2. East Virginia
3. Fare Thee Well
4. House Of The Rising Sun
5. All My Trials
6. Wildwood Flower
7. Donna Donna
LP1 - Side 2:
1. John Riley
2. Rake And Rambling Boy
3. Little Moses
4. Mary Hamilton
5. Henry Martin
6. El Preso Number Nueve
Joan Baez Vol. 2
LP2 - Side 3:
1. Wagoner's Lad
2. The Trees THey Do Grow High
3. The Lily Of The West
4. Silkie
5. Engine 143
6. Once I Knew A Pretty Girl
7. Lonesome Road
LP2 - Side 4:
1. Banks Of The Ohio
2. Pal Of Mine
3. Barbara Allen
4. The Cherry Tree Carol
5. Old Blue
6. Railroad Bloy
7. Plaisir D'Amour