Joan (album)

Joan is a 1967 album by Joan Baez. Having exhausted the standard voice/guitar folksong format by 1967, Baez collaborated with composer Peter Schickele (with whom she'd worked on the 1966 Christmas album, Noël), on an album of orchestrated covers of mostly then-current pop and rock and roll songs. Works by Donovan, Paul Simon, Tim Hardin, the Beatles, and Richard Fariña were included, as well as selections by Jacques Brel and Edgar Allan Poe.

The recording of "Children of Darkness" was a tribute to Baez's brother-in-law, novelist and musician Richard Fariña, who had been killed in a motorcycle accident a year earlier.

"La Colombe" is a French anti-war anthem about French soldiers being sent to fight Algeria in the latter country's bid for independence.

The 2003 Vanguard reissue contains two bonus tracks: "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread" and "Autumn Leaves".

Cover

According to the liner notes on the 2003 reissue, in the cover photo of Baez, she was actually lying down. A candid photo taken during recording sessions while she was resting between songs was spun around so it looked as though she was sitting or standing upright.

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Track listing

Side one

"Be Not Too Hard" (Donovan, lyrics: Christopher Logue)
"Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
"Turquoise" (Donovan)
"La Colombe (The Dove)" (Jacques Brel)
"Dangling Conversation" (Paul Simon)
"The Lady Came from Baltimore" (Tim Hardin)
"North" (Joan Baez, Nina Dusheck)

Side two

"Children of Darkness" (Richard Fariña)
"The Greenwood Side" (Traditional)
"If You Were a Carpenter" (Hardin)
"Annabel Lee" (Don Dilworth; lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe)
"Saigon Bride" (Baez, Dusheck)

Personnel

Joan Baez — vocals, guitar
Peter Schickele — arranger, conductor

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1967	Billboard Pop Albums	38

Joan Baez

Studio albums	Joan Baez (1960) Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (1961) Joan Baez/5 (1964) Farewell, Angelina (1965) Noël (1966) Joan (1967) Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time (1968) Any Day Now (1968) David's Album (1969) I Live One Day at a Time (1970) Carry It On (1971) Blessed Are... (1971) Come from the Shadows (1972) Where Are You Now, My Son? (1973) Gracias a la Vida: Joan Baez canta en español (1974) Diamonds & Rust (1975) Gulf Winds (1976) Blowin' Away (1977) Honest Lullaby (1979) Recently (1987) Speaking of Dreams (1989) Play Me Backwards (1992) Gone From Danger (1997) Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (2003) Day after Tomorrow (2008)

Live albums	Joan Baez in Concert (1962) Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 (1963) From Every Stage (1976) Live Europe 83 (1983) Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (1988) Ring Them Bells (1995) Live at Newport (1996; recorded 1963-65) Bowery Songs (2005)

Compilations	Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square (1959) Portrait of Joan Baez (1967) The First 10 Years (1970) The Joan Baez Ballad Book (1972) Hits: Greatest and Others (1973) The Contemporary Ballad Book (1974) The Joan Baez Lovesong Album (1976) Best of Joan C. Baez (1977) The Joan Baez Country Music Album (1979) Joan Baez: Classics (1986) Brothers in Arms (1991) Rare, Live & Classic (1993) Best of Joan Baez: The Millennium Collection (2000) The Complete A&M Recordings (2003)

Notable songs	"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" "Diamonds & Rust" "Farewell, Angelina" "Forever Young" "Here's to You" "Honest Lullaby" "House of the Rising Sun" "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" "Joe Hill" "Lily of the West" "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" "Love Song to a Stranger" "Mary Hamilton" "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" "Reunion Hill" "Scarlet Tide" "Silver Dagger" "Speaking of Dreams" "Stones in the Road" "Sweet Sir Galahad" "There but for Fortune" "We Shall Overcome" "What Have They Done to the Rain" "Time Rag"

Concert tours	List of Joan Baez concerts

Related	Albert Baez (father) Mimi Fariña (sister) David Harris (husband) Richard Fariña (brother-in-law) Bob Dylan Opposition to the Vietnam War Anti-war songs March on Washington Selma to Montgomery march Woodstock Vanguard Records

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