Joan Baez/5
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| Studio album by Joan Baez | ||
| Released | October 1964 | |
| Recorded | 1964 | |
| Genre | Folk | |
| Length | 41:17 | |
| Label | Vanguard | |
| Producer(s) | Maynard Solomon | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Joan Baez chronology | ||
| Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 (1963) |
Joan Baez/5 (1964) |
Farewell Angelina (1965) |
Joan Baez/5 was a 1964 album by Joan Baez. Unlike her prior albums, Joan Baez/5 was divided evenly between (then) contemporary work, and traditional folk material. Her reading of "There But for Fortune" provided useful exposure to its writer, Phil Ochs, who was blacklisted at the time, and she also included Bob Dylan's It Ain't Me Babe and Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone, as well as a number of traditional English and American folk songs. Director Spike Lee included Baez' recording of Richard Farina's "Birmingham Sunday" (about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, in which four young African American girls lost their lives) in his 1997 documentary Four Little Girls.
5 is also notable for the simple fact that it is Baez's first work to feature overtly political and topical material; There But For Fortune and Birmingham Sunday.
Liner notes were written by Langston Hughes.
[edit] Track listing
- There But for Fortune (Phil Ochs)
- Stewball (traditional)
- It Ain't Me Babe (Bob Dylan)
- The Death of Queen Jane (traditional)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 -- Aria (Villa-Lobos)
- Go 'way from My Window (John Jacob Niles)
- Birmingham Sunday (Richard Farina)
- When You Hear Them Cuckoos Hollerin' (traditional)
- I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash)
- So We'll Go No More A-Roving (traditional)
- O'Cangaceiro (traditional)
- The Unquiet Grave (traditional)
