Joan Baez Vol.2: Remastered

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Customer reviews

review by: Bluegrasser date: 2009-05-04 rating:
Early class
Suddenly I am back in the 60's and discovering the sheer beauty of the voice of Joan Baez for the first time: a CD perhaps lacking in sublety and finess, and all the better for the lack. Listening to it was a total pleasure.

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review by: date: 2009-03-18 rating:
Youth recaptured
I bought this cd and two other Joan Baez recordings of the same type of vintage for my wife as a lasts-longer-than-flowers Valentine's gift. She previously owned the long-player versons and we used to sit and listen to them together when we were first engaged (all together: "A-a-a-h!"). They still sound great, we can play them in the car, and we have the bonus tracks. What could be better?


review by: date: 2009-01-20 rating:
Heartstoppingly good. Joan's second album shines
This is a great follow up to her first album "Joan Baez". br /Although I prefer her first album as it is more "traditional" in the sense that it doesn't have any country infused traditional songs like this album does, it is still a great CD and contains the lovely traditional ballads that only she was born to sing. br /This album has a meatier sound on some tracks -for example on "Banks of the Ohio" she is accompanied by several male voices when she sings the chorus. The song is also decidedly more "country-folk" than pure folk as are the songs "Lonesome Road", "Pal of Mine" and "Engine 143". They are all great tunes in their own right and sung wonderfully by Ms. Baez. They add a new texture to her work, that we did not see in her debut. br /Purists need not dismay, though. There are more Child Ballads here than on her debut such as the ever popular "Barbara Allen" as well as "Cherry Tree Carol" and "Silkie". Other beautiful traditional ballads include (my favourite as it was a song my mother always used to sing to me as a young girl) "The Trees They Do Grow High", "Wagoner's Lad" (which Joanie sings a capella), "Once I Knew A Pretty Girl", "Railroad Boy", "Lily of the West", "Plaisir D'amour" and three very welcome bonus tracks. Most noteworthy is "I Once Loved a Boy", which is hauntingly beautiful and will leave you with goosepimples. Actually, all the tracks will leave you with goosepimples. Joan is an artist like no other. br /I do not agree with the amazon reviewer who says that Joan had not yet developed her impressive range that she later would develop. She sparkles on the vocals here. What a talent!

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