Word: baez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, I will mention a few albums by local folksingers. Joan Baez has been well-promoted in Cambridge. She has, in addition to her first release on the Veritas label, two records on Vanguard. Baez has a staggeringly beautiful voice. Her rendition of "Old Blue" on her latest Vanguard release is also excellent for checking up on the distortion of your phono-cartridge. Theodore Alevizos, a former WHRB Balladeer, has a wonderful recording of Greek folksongs on Prestige International, whereon he is accompanied by Rolf Cahn and Susan Alevizos. Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt have an album on Folkways...
...biggest thing since Tom Lehrer," beamed the saleslady. Ray Charles--doing the same kind of music--and Joan Baez are also selling well. The store plans to sell "in the thousands" of Checker records...
...presentation of three original songs he had rarely sung before. Of these the most impressive was the mournful, haunting maiden's lament, "Unused I am to Lovers." The melody was a beautiful but unlikely combination of classical Italian influence and backwoods "hollars." I found myself wishing someone like Joan Baez would sing it so its true beauty could emerge...
...Orleans' House of the Fencing Masters, a coffeehouse gallery that displays the serious work of local artists, and the folk-song parlors, such as the Laughing Buddha in St. Louis and Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., where the Harvard boys listen reverently to the excellent voice of Joan Baez, 20, singing Wildwood Flower and All My Trials...
...Joan Baez will not be a great big seller. English ballads are pretty esoteric stuff to most buyers. But the record is of undeniable quality, and has some stunning moments. It proves what many have been mumbling into their coffee for some time: that Joan Baez can be, if she wants, the very best in her field...