Joan Baez - Greatest Hits | 
| Artist: Joan Baez
Label: A&M
Category: Music
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 1870
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 540510
UPC: 731454051026
EAN: 0731454051026
ASIN: B000002G50
Release Date: May 7, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez, Baez, Joan | | • | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez, Robertson, Robbie | | • | Simple Twist of Fate - Joan Baez, Dylan, Bob | | • | Imagine - Joan Baez, Lennon, John | | • | In the Quiet Morning (For Janis Joplin) - Joan Baez, Farina, Mimi | | • | Best of Friends - Joan Baez, Farina, Mimi | | • | Forever Young - Joan Baez, Dylan, Bob | | • | Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) - Joan Baez, Baez, Joan | | • | Jesse - Joan Baez, Ian, Janis | | • | Children and All That Jazz - Joan Baez, Baez, Joan | | • | Please Come to Boston - Joan Baez, Loggins, Dave | | • | Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer - Joan Baez, Wonder, Stevie | | • | Gracias a la Vida - Joan Baez, Parra, Violeta | | • | Sweeter for Me - Joan Baez, Baez, Joan | | • | Love Song To A Stranger | | • | Dida - Joan Baez, Baez, Joan | | • | Amazing Grace - Joan Baez, Newton, John | | • | Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti - Joan Baez, Baez, Joan | | • | Oh Happy Day - Joan Baez, Hawkins, Edwin | | • | Less Than the Song - Joan Baez, Axton, Hoyt |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Before Joan Baez, the closest thing to a white female folksinger was Jo Stafford. Baez made her professional debut in 1959 at the Newport Folk Festival and started recording for Vanguard the next year. Her early association with Bob Dylan and performances of his songs did him no harm. The material in this CD comes from later in her career, when she had left Vanguard for A&M. Listeners who enjoy this CD will probably want to hear her earlier work. She is among the classic American voices. --Stanley Booth
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 What were you thinking Joan? December 29, 2008
Al Nash (New Zealand)
I've long been a fan of Joan's distinctive vocal sound. What a shame that in her later career she has been the victim of cheesy arrangements and second rate material. Only a few tracks on this CD are listenable. I'm going to look around for some of her earlier, more folksy songs.
 Good selections, but... October 24, 2008
V. Hartung (Willowbrook, IL United States)
This recording is some of Joan's best stuff. I would have chosen her greatest hits a little differently tho. Still a good listen
Good collection, but a couple of corrections September 8, 2008
randysrodeo.com (Austin, Texas)
'Greatest Hits' is a good (not perfect) overview of Joan's A&M years - which, other reviewers fail to understand, do not encompass her popular 1971 Blessed Are... album (the one that includes the original version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.") By the way, I recommend Ace Records' Best of the Vanguard Years to survey Joan's early years. All of her original Vanguard LP's have been reissued, too.
But, my point here to is correct two aspects of the liner notes and track selection. First, the version of "Forever Young" included here is not the original 1974 single version (though that's what the liner notes claim). Rather, it's the live version on From Every Stage (1976). Too bad - the single is better. Note that you can download the original studio version from her Complete A&M Recordings collection.
Second, the version of "Dida" included here is the jazzy 1975 version (from Diamonds & Rust with Joni Mitchell and Tom Scott. The liner notes claim it's the original 1974 version from Gracias a la Vida. Which, IMHO, is a good thing - but the liner notes are incorrect...
JOAN BAEZ IN THE 1970s, July 21, 2008
Cedric Gifford (Atlanta)
There is only one voice of Joan Baez. Her protest songs of the 1960s were her best in my opinion.
Left me wanting May 23, 2008
old dude (houston tx usa)
This is a great CD but the live performance of " AMAZING GRACE " was disapointing.
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