Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time

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Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time cover
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released June 1968
Recorded Vangaurd Studios, New York, 1968
Genre Folk
Length ?:?
Label Vanguard
Producer Maynard Solomon
Professional reviews
Joan Baez chronology
Joan
(1967)		 Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
(1968)		 Any Day Now
(1968)

Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time was a 1968 album of poetry spoken and sung by Joan Baez. Peter Schickele (of P. D. Q. Bach fame) did the orchestration, as he did on 1967's Joan.

The album was released during a time when many folk, pop and rock artists were experimenting with mixing their music with classical orchestration (e.g. The Beatles, Judy Collins, The Rolling Stones.)

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)
  2. "I Saw the Vision of Armies" (Walt Whitman)
  3. "Minister of War" (Arthur Waley)
  4. "Song In the Blood" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti/Jacques Prévert)
  5. "Casida of the Lament" (J.L. Gili/Federico García Lorca)
  6. "Of the Dark Past" (James Joyce)
  7. "London" (William Blake)
  8. "In Guernica" (Norman Rosten)
  9. "Who Murdered the Minutes" (Henry Treece)
  10. "Oh, Little Child" (Henry Treece)
  11. "No Man Is an Island" (John Donne)
  12. "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" (James Joyce)
  13. "All the Pretty Little Horses" (traditional)
  14. "Childhood III" (Arthur Rimbaud/Louis Varese)
  15. "The Magic Wood" (Henry Treece)
  16. "Poems from the Japanese" (Kenneth Rexroth)
  17. "Colours" (P. Levi, R. Milner-Gulland, Y. Yevtushenko)
  18. "All in Green Went my Love Riding" (E. E. Cummings)
  19. "Gacela of the Dark Death" (Federico García Lorca/Stephen Spender)
  20. "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" (W. Owen)
  21. "Evil" (N. Cameron/Arthur Rimbaud)
  22. "Epitaph for a Poet" (Countee Cullen)
  23. "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)