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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women
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Perhaps the most outstanding folk album of the 1970s, this collection represents Baez's blossoming from a girlish folk icon into a mature interpreter of folk music. The title track (and, to a much lesser degree, "Dida" and "Children and All That Jazz") showcases her songwriting, but the intimate spin she puts on the music of others is what makes this the remarkable work it is. On Jackson Browne's "Fountain of Sorrow," Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate" and John Prine's "Hello in There," the purity of Baez's clear soprano (deeper and mellower than on her early albums) expresses
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Manufacturer: A&M
Release date: 25 October 1990
EAN: 0075021323322 UPC: 075021323322
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Release date: 25 October 1990
EAN: 0075021323322 UPC: 075021323322
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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (150 music items)"Joan Baez was more than fifteen years into her music career when she struck out in a new direction, in 1975, with her album Diamonds & Rust. While she was used to interpreting other people's songs, it's here that she began to trust her own voice as a songwriter. How brave she was. Not only was she becoming increasingly more vocal — and more critical — about America's controversial actions in the world, but she also started sharing her original songs with an audience used to her voice, and no"