Genre: Folk rock
Places I remember: Electric City Music (Napier)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Stones In The Road (a live version, as this album isn't on Spotify)
Gear costume: Strange Rivers (an earlier live version)
Active compensatory factors: This is a reissued version of the album, complete with a second record of demos. I'll start there because it's as good, if not better than the actual album because it's just pure Joan with acoustic guitar. It's recorded brilliantly and really acts as its own distinct thing.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Stones In The Road (a live version, as this album isn't on Spotify)
Gear costume: Strange Rivers (an earlier live version)
Active compensatory factors: This is a reissued version of the album, complete with a second record of demos. I'll start there because it's as good, if not better than the actual album because it's just pure Joan with acoustic guitar. It's recorded brilliantly and really acts as its own distinct thing.
The liner notes call this a gateway album to Joan's third act - which leads to Gone From Danger and others. I think that's right - there are hints of an Americana approach here, while a few tracks hark back to her Nashville albums of the late sixties/early seventies or even further back to the folkie days.
Her voice is making that transition. Strange Rivers is a good example of that.
Although my two featured songs are covers, the other aspect of note here is how many tracks are her co-writes. They sound good, and are not weak in any way compared to the other songwriters featured like Janis Ian or Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Where do they all belong? I dare say I haven't finished collecting Joan Baez albums. She's got her hooks in me.
Where do they all belong? I dare say I haven't finished collecting Joan Baez albums. She's got her hooks in me.
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