The salt of the earth (Jagger/Richards) (LP 845 -846)

Joan Baez   David's Album (Vinyl, Vanguard Records, 1969) ***  

Joan Baez   Blessed Are... (Vinyl, Vanguard Records, 1971) ***

Genre: Folk

Places I remember: Real Groovy Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Let It Be (Blessed Are...)

Gear costume: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Blessed Are...)

Active compensatory factors: These two albums represent the start and the end of her country phase on Vanguard - and Blessed Are... was her final album for the label.

They don't have the genius touch that One Day At A Time has but they are full of great songs and Joan's powerful in-the-pocket vocals.

Blessed Are...is a double with a lot of Joan's own excellent songs - she's definitely underrated as a composer. Probably because she is so gifted as an interpreter of others' songs.

Here she takes Let It Be,  The Beatles gospely edged song that Aretha does so well, and makes it a folk song! Stunning!!

Where do they all belong? I've only bought these recently in the Joan Baez rediscovery phase. She is a marvel!