Joan Baez: Classics

Joan Baez: Classics
Greatest hits album by Joan Baez
Released November 1986
Genre Folk
Length 65:57
Label A&M
Producer Bernard Gelb
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Joan Baez chronology
Live -Europe '83
(1984)		 Joan Baez: Classics
(1986)		 Recently
(1987)

Joan Baez: Classics was a 1986 compilation, focusing on her A&M period (1972–1976). Released in the mid-80s, the album was significant for being the first Joan Baez compilation to appear on CD, and remains one of the stronger collections of the singer's 1970s work. The CD was part of A&M's series of compilations from artists associated with their label to commemorate their 25th anniversary.

The 1997 Joan Baez' Greatest Hits collection on A&M contained almost the identical track listing as Classics, as well as the same liner notes.

Track listing

  1. "Diamonds & Rust" (Baez)
  2. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Robbie Robertson)
  3. "Simple Twist of Fate" (Bob Dylan)
  4. "Imagine" (John Lennon)
  5. "In The Quiet Morning" (Mimi Fariña)
  6. "Best Of Friends" (Mimi Fariña)
  7. "Forever Young" (Bob Dylan)
  8. "Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)" (Baez)
  9. "Jesse" (Janis Ian)
  10. "Children And All That Jazz" (Baez)
  11. "Please Come To Boston" (Dave Loggins)
  12. "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" (Stevie Wonder/Syreeta Wright)
  13. "Gracias A la Vida" (Violeta Parra)
  14. "Sweeter For Me" (Baez)
  15. "Love Song To A Stranger" (Baez)
  16. "Dida" (Joan Baez)
  17. "Amazing Grace" (traditional)
Joan Baez
Studio albums
Joan Baez (1960) • Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (1961) • Joan Baez/5 (1964) • Farewell, Angelina (1965) • Noël (1966) • Joan (1967) • Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time (1968) • Any Day Now (1968) • David's Album (1969) • I Live One Day at a Time (1970) • Carry It On (1971) • Blessed Are... (1971) • Come from the Shadows (1972) • Where Are You Now, My Son? (1973) • Gracias a la Vida: Joan Baez canta en español (1974) • Diamonds & Rust (1975) • Gulf Winds (1976) • Blowin' Away (1977) • Honest Lullaby (1979) • Recently (1987) • Speaking of Dreams (1989) • Play Me Backwards (1992) • Gone From Danger (1997) • Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (2003) • Day after Tomorrow (2008)
Live albums
Joan Baez in Concert (1962) • Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 (1963) • From Every Stage (1976) • Live Europe 83 (1983) • Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (1988) • Ring Them Bells (1995) • Live at Newport (1996; recorded 1963-65) • Bowery Songs (2005)
Compilations
Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square (1959) • Portrait of Joan Baez (1967)  • The First 10 Years (1970) • The Joan Baez Ballad Book (1972) • Hits: Greatest and Others (1973) • The Contemporary Ballad Book (1974) • The Joan Baez Lovesong Album (1976) • Best of Joan C. Baez (1977) • The Joan Baez Country Music Album (1979) • Joan Baez: Classics (1986) • Rare, Live & Classic (1993) • Best of Joan Baez: The Millennium Collection (2000) • The Complete A&M Recordings (2003)
Notable songs
"Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" • "China" • "Day After Tomorrow" • "Diamonds & Rust" • "Farewell, Angelina" • "Forever Young" • "Here's to You"  • "Honest Lullaby" • "House of the Rising Sun" • "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" • "Joe Hill" • "Lily of the West" • "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" • "Love Song to a Stranger" • "Mary Hamilton" • "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" • "Recently" • "Reunion Hill" • "Rexroth's Daughter" • "Scarlet Tide" • "Silver Dagger" • "Speaking of Dreams" • "Stones in the Road" • "Sweet Sir Galahad" • "There but for Fortune" • "We Shall Overcome" • "What Have They Done to the Rain"
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