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Joan Baez
Country Music Album
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (20) - Disc #1
1. Songs Of The South: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
2. Songs Of The South: Brand New Tennessee Waltz
3. Songs Of The South: Outside The Nashville City Limits
4. Songs Of The South: Ghetto
5. Songs Of The South: My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains
6. Love Songs: Rock Salt And Nails
7. Love Songs: Help Me Make It Through The Night
8. Love Songs: Long Black Veil
9. Love Songs: I Still Miss Someone
10. Love Songs: San Francisco Mabel Joy
11. Roots & Retrospects: Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South
12. Roots & Retrospects: Hickory Wind
13. Roots & Retrospects: Will The Circle Be Unbroken
14. Roots & Retrospects: Tramp On The Street
15. Roots & Retrospects: Carry It On
16. Old Timey Songs: Gospel Ship
17. Old Timey Songs: Little Moses
18. On the Banks Of The Ohio
19. Old Timey Songs: Engine
20. Old Timey Songs: Pal Of Mine

CD Details

All Artists: Joan Baez
Title: Country Music Album
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Vanguard Records
Release Date: 10/25/1990
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Outlaw Country, Classic Country, Traditional Folk, Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriters, Vocal Pop, Folk Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 015707105620, 090204666423

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CD Reviews

Wasted money

Tony Thomas | 06/18/1999

(1 out of 5 stars)

"This was not what I expected -- although I loved her original renditions of the songs, this sounds like a canned karaoke version"

Great Folk Songs and Traditionals!

scherf.com | Las Vegas, NV USA | 05/23/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I remember buying this album first in the late 70s on vinyl (it was 2 LPs I think) and I listened to it many times. Now it's one convenient CD and the album offers 20 songs ... 5 songs in each of the four categories: Songs of the South, Love Songs, Roots & Prospects, Old Timey Songs. This is my favorite Joan Baez album and I do like the folksy/country blend with the many excellent traditionals. There are no fancy arrangements, just simple and pure Americana music. If you like this album, you may also want to check out Lucinda Williams' "Ramblin' " album which is somewhat along the same lines, but a little bit more bluesy than this CD. I think most music fans will appreciate this Joan Baez Country Music CD album with so many great songs on it -- it's not easy to find these kind of songs on one CD."

One of a kind

Louise | Ann Arbor, MI United States | 01/08/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love this album, if for no other reason than that it includes "Outside the Nashville City Limits" and "Hickory Wind." Ms. Baez's rendition of both songs is enough to bring tears homesickness to my eyes (even when I'm at home! ;o) ), without being overdone. Her voice is, as always, incredible, like chocolate silk, or clear, running water. I enjoyed the rest of the songs as well as the two aforementioned, but those two are really something special that I haven't seen in her other collections."

Mixedbag over 20 years of recording

Tony Thomas | SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA | 06/23/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This is a mixed bag. The last 5 recordings come from the days of Joanie being the folk artist, doing traditional songs, some with the great Green Briar Boys like Ohio and Pal of Mine from her very first album in 1960, 44 years ago! Others are from the first two folk albums where Joanie actually became one of the better Carter family pickers around like little Moses, Engine 143, and my favorite, Gospel Ship, all out the Carter Family repertoire. Even on these songs Joanie really doesn't sing them as we who sing traditional, old time, or country sing them, but with her hard core note perfect world class soprano, and a tendency to melodramaticize things that are not Melodramic. I remember getting that 1960 albuym and discovering someone died in every single song! Later, Vanguard the company she was with in the 1960s and 1970s tried to take all their artists in a country direction recording them in Nashville with some of the best studio musicians, not just old Joanie, but Buffey Saint Marie, Eric Anderson, and Doc Watson. Some of the best stuff on this CD for the general non Carter family or bluegrass fanatic comes from this period: the heart wrenching Hickory Wind and the equally great Rock Salt and Nails. Here the limitations of Joanie's vocal approach highly the stark, but sentimental lyrics of great songs, and really touch you. I sighed and stepped back just thinking of those two titles, even though I have been listening to them since the early 1970s. No one should be denied the experience of hearing them. Curiously missing is Joan's best Nashville Album. This is what we used to call "The White Album" because it was a two volume white looking record looking surprisingly like the Beatles 1968 white Album, of Bob Dylan songs. It was recorded in Nashville. There is some great work on that album on fiddling and fiddling with sol fagio by the GREAT JOHNNY GIMBLE, and some really great arrangements of the Dylan songs by whoever was producing Vanguard's Nashville sessions. Except for the two cuts with the Greenbriars, there is nothing on here that I would think of sounding really country, particularly in Joanie's voice. She tries but she is into something of her own which one either likes or dislikes. A lot of the Nashville arrangements are artful and interesting. This is for fans of Joan Baez or fans of some of the songs.
For Country get a country artist."