Baez,Joan - Bowery Songs
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Album Details: Bowery Songs
- Release Date:
- 09/06/2005
- Label:
- Koch Records
- UPC:
- 099923571421
User Reviews: Bowery Songs
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Bowery Songs
, October 25, 2006Reviewer: waynon - See all waynon's reviews -
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, September 6, 2005Reviewer: Dave - See all Dave's reviewsPros: Top-notch material, band, and voice, 14 songs!
Cons: minimal liner notes / not a full concert
On this live recording (New York City at the Bowery Ballroom 11/06/04) Joan Baez sings Greg Brown
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Bowery Songs is a collection of live tracks taken from Joan Baez's performance at the Bowery Ballroom in New York on November 6, 2004. While it is not an entire performance, there is more than enough to satisfy fans. Baez and her band take on material old"It's All Over NOW Baby Blue," "Farewell Angelina," "Joe Hill," "Deprtee," etc.and some fine performances from her last studio outing, Dark Chords Form A Big Guitarincluding "Christmas In Washington," and "Rexroth's Daughter." But the big news for fans is that there are four unrecorded songs that have been part of Baez's standard stage repertoire and are often requested by fans. The album's bookends pieces are an a capella read of "Finlandia," and a fine reading of Steve Earle's "Jerusalem." She also does an amazing version of Bob Dylan's "Seven Curses here as well as "Dink's Song." This is a deeply satisfying recording, and Baez is at her very best as an interpretive singer. The read of Earle's Christmas IN Washington is a case in point. Baez brings a much deeper sense of history and social justice struggle to the tune than Earle does, and she brings it to bear in every line. One can hear her heartbreak and in turn crack the song open, letting the tattered banners of labor unions to the listeners eyes and as she invokes the ghosts of Emma Goldman, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Woody Guthrie among others to the fore, one can feel the sense of hurt, betrayal and failed promise, but also the trace of rigorous perseverance that the original does not hold. The only song that isn't her that should be is Ryan Adams' "In My Time Of Need," that was such a standout on Dark Chords Form A Big Guitar. But this is a minor quibble, as Bowery Songs is Baez's edgiest, and most darkly seductive live album to date. - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the 1960s, Joan Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong after more than 35 years. Baez is possessed of a onceinalifetime soprano, which, since the late '...Full Baez,Joan Biography
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Pros: Finlandia is good
Cons: Too much electric guitar and drum -- mechanical
My favorite singer EVER laid a big one this time. The electric guitar is SO out of place and sounds so mechanical as do the drums. Sounds like one of those automated accompaniments that come with automated keyboards. Really distracted from a great voice. I was very disappointed. If I had listened to this cd before I bought eight front and center tickets to her current tour I would have saved my money! What! Me not go see Joan, whom I have practically worshipped for her beautiful voice and heroic political stands against violence and wrong. Yes, this new "style" is so wrong. In many places on old favorite stand-bys like "joe Hill" you can hear her rush to try to keep up with the mechanical drummer. I would not take my children to see this one. Joan, please be who you are -- you don't need that junk. You and a guitar alone beat anyone else out there, and many of your past backup bands have been wonderful. Theyr're not the star -- YOU ARE Make them follow you.
Love you anyway. You're my hero.
Waynon ...