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| 1. Ghetto |
| 2. If I Were a Carpenter |
| 3. Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word |
| 4. There But For Fortune |
| 5. John Riley |
| 6. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere |
| 7. Mary Hamilton |
| 8. Manha De Carnaval |
| 9. If I Knew |
| 10. With God on Our Side |
| 11. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right |
| 12. Geordie |
| 13. Te Ador |
| 14. No Expectations |
| 15. Sweet Sir Galahad |
| 16. Turquoise |
| 17. Farewell Angelina |
| 18. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall |
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She had the public persona of a saint, and a face and voice that captured all the idealism, innocence, and optimism of the '60s folk revival. She wasn't the movement's greatest talent, but her work helped shape all women balladeers who followed. Baez's best youthful work is here, including a host of Dylan songs: "Don't Think Twice," "Gates of Eden," "Farewell Angelina," and "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word," one of the best songs Dylan wrote but never recorded. Her version of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" is her finest vocal interpretation, a political song that never ceases to move. --Roy Francis Kasten
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
What I have always love about Joan Baez is her exquisite and crystal clear voice. She is a dream to listen to and her songs fit her vocal range just perfect. This album is excellent all the way through and the songs included on the CD is the best of her repertoire from 1960 to 1970, which is why the album is called THE FIRST TEN YEARS. All of the songs on this collection are great but there are six tracks that are truly wonderful and is why I bought this album aside from the fact that she has a beautiful voice. The songs that I love from this great recording are "Ghetto", "If I Were A Carpenter", "If I Knew", "No Expectations" (which is a cover of the Stones original and she sounds far better than Mick on this one.) "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word". They are all excellent and as I said before perfect for her glorious soprano voice. This is a great album to have and enjoy for many years to come and if you're a Joan Baez fan than this one is a must for your collection. GREAT and EXHILIRATING.
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Format:Audio CD
My record album is 33 years old, and I bought the CD to listen to at work. Her renditions of Bob Dylan's songs bring them to life, infusing them with passion. Her singing of older folk songs illustrate her crystalline voice. I learned to play guitar to her "Farwell Angelina." More recently, I've played "With God on Our Side" when I am troubled by our current status in Iraq. If you want to try one Joan Baez album, this is the one.
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By Peter Durward Harris
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Format:Audio CD
This compilation covers the ten years that Joan spent recording for Vanguard. She had some success after she left, but the Vanguard recordings remain the most important of her career.
She occasionally wrote her own songs (represented here by Sweet Sir Galahad) but mostly she recorded the songs of others. Her biggest influence was Bob Dylan, who wrote six of the songs here. Apparently, Bob never recorded Love is just a four letter word, but it is a lovely song. I first heard With God on our side by Manfred Mann, a sixties group who also recorded several Bob Dylan songs. Many people have recorded Don't think twice it's all right, including Johnny Cash - another singer who has made several raids on the Bob Dylan songbook. You ain't going nowhere, Farewell Angelina and A hard rain's gonna fall are his other songs here.
Other covers by Joan here include There but for fortune (Phil Ochs), No expectations (Rolling stones), Turquoise (Donovan) and the often covered If I were a carpenter. There are also some traditional folk songs - Mary Hamilton, Geordie and Te ador - so old that their writers are unknown.
Joan recorded so many great songs that eighteen tracks cannot possibly include everything worth having, but this is a good sampling of Joan's music. If you only want one of Joan's albums, this is a good one to choose.
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You missed a few
This is my favorite Joan Baez Album. I still have the original cassette. I believe some of the best songs were left off the cd. Read more
Published on Mar 6 2005 by Sandra Findlay
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great retrospective
This is a great collection of her Vanguard years, except Blessed Are which was released after this.
Starting off with Ghetto, a prickly number with wicked electric sitar and... Read more
Published on Feb 7 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beyond a greatest hits album
This one is a "must buy" for people intoxicated by Joan Baez's gorgeous voice: the perfect vibrato, the stunning range, the sweet notes and the soulful notes. Read more
Published on Jan 25 2003 by bethtexas
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Compliation Of Her First Ten Years!
This is a great collection of Joan Baez's amazing work over the first ten years of her recording career. Read more
Published on July 16 2002 by Barron Laycock
4.0 out of 5 stars
Loving Joan
This first ten year compilation showcases Joan Baez's early works, where her voice was the song. The innocence and purity of her early folk recordings are a major mark in time for... Read more
Published on July 1 2001 by Martin A Hogan
5.0 out of 5 stars
the one baez album to buy
A wide ranging and thoroughly satisfying compliation of Baez' early work, including definitive interpretations of Farewell Angelina (one of Dylan's hidden masterpieces), Love is... Read more
Published on Feb 25 2001 by "pspa"
4.0 out of 5 stars
If I were a carpenter, she'd be my kind of lady
It's too bad that "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was the popular AM radio song we judged her on. Read more
Published on July 8 2000 by Thomas Lapins
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Anti-Diva!
Joan Baez 's clarity and sincerity simply radiate on this compilation. She has a fine voice, singing in the upper ranges with little tremolo; the effect is art rather than... Read more
Published on Jun 14 2000 by M. Allen Greenbaum
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not great c.d. transition.
I had the original album and was dissapointed by the omission of Will the Circle Be Unbroken. This song, which can be found on David's Album has a great group of background... Read more
Published on April 20 2000 by Richard P. Mondor
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential Baez
Even now, after Joan's boxed set and all the subsequent compilations, this still remains her strongest "greatest hits" collection. Read more
Published on Feb 25 2000 by Mark R. Thivierge
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