Joan Baez: Classics

Greatest hits album by Joan Baez

Released

November 1986

Genre

Folk

Length

65:57

Label

A&M

Producer

Bernard Gelb

Joan Baez chronology

Live Europe '83
(1984)

Joan Baez: Classics
(1986)

Recently
(1987)

Joan Baez: Classics (Also known as Classics, Volume 8) is a 1986 compilation, focusing on her A&M period (1972–76). Released in the mid-1980s, the album was significant for being the first Joan Baez compilation to appear on CD, and remains one of the more comprehensive collections of her 1970's work. The CD was part of A&M's series of compilations from artists associated with their label to commemorate their 25th anniversary.

The album was released in 1996 as Joan Baez' Greatest Hits which contained the same track listing as Classics (along with the tracks "The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti," "Oh Happy Day," and "Less Than the Song"), as well as the same liner notes.

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Track listing

"Diamonds & Rust" (Joan Baez)
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Robbie Robertson)
"Simple Twist of Fate" (Bob Dylan)
"Imagine" (John Lennon)
"In the Quiet Morning" (Mimi Fariña)
"Best of Friends" (Fariña)
"Forever Young" (Dylan)
"Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)" (Baez)
"Jesse" (Janis Ian)
"Children and All That Jazz" (Baez)
"Please Come to Boston" (Dave Loggins)
"Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" (Stevie Wonder/Syreeta Wright)
"Gracias A la Vida" (Violeta Parra)
"Sweeter for Me" (Baez)
"Love Song to a Stranger" (Baez)
"Dida" (Baez)
"Amazing Grace" (Traditional)

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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