Joan Baez - Blessed Are [1971] (Full Album)

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The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the 1960s, Joan Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late '50s, she has put in the service of folk and pop music as well as a variety of political causes. Starting out in Boston, Baez first gained recognition at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, then cut her debut album, Joan Baez (October 1960), for Vanguard Records. It was made up of 13 traditional songs, some of them children's ballads, given near-definitive treatment. A moderate success on release, the album took off after the breakthrough of Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (September 1961), and both albums became huge hits, as did Baez's third album, Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 1 (September 1962). Each album went gold and stayed in the bestseller charts more than two years. From 1962 to 1964, Baez was the popular face of folk music, headlining festivals and concert tours and singing at political events, including the August 1963 March on Washington. During this period, she began to champion the work of folk songwriter Bob Dylan, and gradually her repertoire moved from traditional material toward the socially conscious work of the emerging generation of '60s artists like him. Her albums of this period were Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 2 (November 1963) and Joan Baez 5 (October 1964), which contained her cover of Phil Ochs' «There But for Fortune», a Top Ten hit in the U.K. Like other popular folk performers, Baez was affected by the changes in popular music wrought by the appearance of the Beatles in the U.S. in 1964, and Dylan's introduction of folk-rock in 1965, and she began to augment her simple acoustic guitar backing with other instruments, initially on Farewell, Angelina (October 1965). Blessed Are... (August 1971) was a gold-selling double album that spawned a gold Top Ten hit in Baez's cover of the Band's «The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down», and her last with Vanguard Records. It included work by Kris Kristofferson, the Beatles, Jesse Winchester and The Rolling Stones, as well as a significant number of Baez' own compositions. Like its immediate predecessors, the album was recorded in Nashville, and had a decidedly country feel. Joan Baez ‎– Blessed Are... [1971] (Full Album) Tracklist: A1. Blessed Are... - 3:03 A2. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Written By J. Robbie Robertson) - 3:22 A3. The Salt Of The Earth Written By Mike Jagger & Keith Richard) - 3:22 A4. Three Horses - 7:03 A5. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Written By Jesse Winchester) - 3:07 B1. Last, Lonely And Wretched - 3:42 B2. Lincoln Freed Me Today (Written By David Patton) - 3:21 B3. Outside The Nashville City Limits - 3:20 B4. San Francisco Mabel Joy - 4:23 B5. When Time Is Stolen -2:58 C1. Heaven Help Us All (Written By Ron Miller) - 3:32 C2. Angeline - 3:37 C3. Help Me Make It Through The Night (Written By Kris Kristofferson) - 2:58 C4. Let It Be (Written By Lennon - McCartney) - 3:48 C5. Put Your Hand In The Hand (Written By Gene MacLellan) - 3:20 D1. Gabriel And Me - 3:27 D2. Milanese Waltz - Marie Flore - 5:55 D3. The Hitchhikers' Song - 4:19 D4. The 33rd Of August - 3:42 D5. Fifteen Months - 4:30 Credits Guitar: Pete Wade Guitar, Dobro: Norman Blake Harmonica: Charlie McCoy Keyboards: David Briggs Violin: Buddy Spicher Drums: Kenneth Buttrey Strings: The Nashville Strings Horns: The Memphis Horns Vocals: The Holladay Singers, The Town And Country Singers Arranged By: Cameron L. Mullins (tracks: D1 to D2, D4), David Briggs (tracks: A1, D5), Norbert Putnam (tracks: A3, B2, C1 to C2, C4) Written By Joan Baez (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B3, B5, D1 to D3, D5), Mickey Newbury (tracks: B4, C2, D4) Engineer: Gene Eichelberger Producer, Bass: –Norbert Putnam Co-producer: Jack Lothrop Design: Bruce Campbell Painting [Cover]: Davide Harris Photography By: Jim Marshall Companies, etc. Recorded: Quadrafonic Sound Studios Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1971 Pressed By Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman Label: Vanguard ‎– VSD-6570/1, Vanguard ‎– SPV-6 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1971 Genre: Rock Style: Folk Rock Visit our site at: http://www.antifonies.gr/joan-baez-%e2%80%8e-blessed-1971/ DISCLAIMER: I do not make any profit from this video. No copyright infringement intended. All rights belong to the respective artists and the record companies. It is uploaded for educational and promotional purposes only. I do not own, nor claim to own anything contained in this video. -Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com