The First Ten Years (Joan Baez album)

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The First 10 Years
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Greatest hits album by Joan Baez
Released October 1970
Genre Folk
Length 70:00
Label Vanguard
Producer Maynard Solomon
Joan Baez chronology
(I Live) One Day at a Time
(1970)(I Live) One Day at a Time1970
The First 10 Years
(1970)
Carry It On
(1971)Carry It On1971

The First Ten Years is a 1970 Joan Baez compilation album, which rounds up highlights of her first decade with the Vanguard label.[1][2][3][4]

It was her first "official" compilation, and includes material ranging from her early 1960s traditional folk, through her Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs covers, to her later experiments with classical orchestration and country music. Originally released on vinyl as a two-record set, the 1987 CD reissue consolidated the album onto a single disc, omitting five songs.

The cover photo was taken by rock photographer Jim Marshall. Inside the original gatefold album on the original vinyl release was a photo montage of images from Baez' career.

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Track listing

  1. "Ghetto" (Homer Banks, Bonnie Bramlett, Bettye Crutcher)
  2. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin)
  3. "Silver Dagger" (Traditional)*
  4. "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word" (Bob Dylan)
  5. "There But for Fortune" (Phil Ochs)
  6. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Traditional)*
  7. "John Riley" (Traditional, arr. by Ricky Neff)
  8. "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (Dylan)
  9. "Mary Hamilton" (Traditional)
  10. "Carry It On" (Gil Turner)*
  11. "Manha De Carnival" (Luiz Bonfá)
  12. "If I Knew" (Nina Duschek, Pauline Marden)
  13. "With God on Our Side" (Dylan)
  14. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" (Dylan)
  15. "Geordie" (Traditional)
  16. "Te Ador" (Traditional)
  17. "Green, Green Grass of Home" (Curly Putman)*
  18. "No Expectations" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  19. "Sweet Sir Galahad" (Joan Baez)
  20. "Turquoise" (Donovan)
  21. "Farewell, Angelina" (Dylan)
  22. "London" (William Blake)/Old Welsh Song (Henry Treece)*
  23. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (Dylan)

The CD reissue did not include the following tracks: "Silver Dagger", "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", "Carry It On", "Green, Green Grass Of Home", and "London/Old Welsh Song".

References

  1. Roxane Orgill Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers who Shaped a Century 2001 0689819919 "Joan Baez—The First Ten Years. Vanguard. Traditional and contemporary folk songs from 1960 to 1970. "
  2. Avital H. Bloch, Lauri Umansky Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960's -0814799108 2005 Page 148 " ... and "Blessed Are," in Joan Baez: Rare, Live and Classic — "Sweet Sir Galahad" in The First Ten Years (Vanguard, 6560/1, ."
  3. Merold Westphal Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism 1998 -0823218767 Page 76 "As sung by Joan Baez in "Joan Baez: The First Ten Years," two-record set from Vanguard, VSD 6560/1."
  4. Colin Larkin The Encyclopedia of Popular Music 2011- Page 2006 "COMPILATIONS: The First Ten Years (Vanguard 1970) , The Ballad Book (Vanguard 1972), The Contemporary ... Hits Greatest And Others (Vanguard 1976), The Best Of Joan Baez (A&M 1977) , Spotlight On Joan Baez (Spotlight 1980), "