This soundtrack intersperses acoustic live performances with politically oriented dialog, much of which is spoken by her then-husband, draft resister David Harris. It's certainly one of the most minor entries of her Vanguard catalog. The dialogue is distracting, and the music reasonable but uneven, as Baez offers interpretations of songs by Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Edwin Hawkins, Leonard Cohen, and "We Shall Overcome." Her cover of Aretha Franklin's "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man," however, was not a good idea.
This is a Bob Dylan song.Bob himself has never recorded it. Joan appropriated it while it was still a work in progress circa 1965.She tells the story that when Bob heard her version on the radio he commented, "Hey that's a great song", apparently having completely forgotten that it was he himself who had written it. A plea - somewhere in the deepest recesses of 400 unsorted and uncatalogued tap...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/opinion/03thu4.html?th&emc=thhttp://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,399891,00.htmlMore samples of music and info at the website above.The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. Joan BaezUS folksinger (1941 - ) And a story from my favorite radio, NPR
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| 1 Oh Happy Day |
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| 2 Carry It On |
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| 3 In Forty Days |
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| 4 Hickory Wind |
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| 5 The Last Thing on My Mind |
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| 6 Life Is Sacred |
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| 7 Joe Hill |
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| 8 I Shall Be Released |
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| 9 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man |
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| 10 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word |
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| 11 Suzanne |
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| 12 Idols and Heroes |
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| 13 We Shall Overcome |
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