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All This Amazing Grace
Pros: 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’s composition “Rexroth’s Daughter”, a song full of a lifetime’s worth of insightful lyrics. One phrase that stood out specifically to me as I listened to it on this particular recording was:
“If you try to swallow what they shove at us
you run out of tears to cry
I heard a man speak quietly
I listened for awhile
He spoke from his heart to my woe
then he bowed and smiled
What is real but compassion
as we move from birth to death?”
Compassion is woven throughout Joan’s performance here, as she sings quietly, sweetly, sadly, and strongly, of age-old woes, dreams, hopes, and the desire for peace, both personal and political.
This is a record that exemplifies (while updating) the best of the folk music tradition:
Joan has chosen to record top-notch material from her vast repertoire; from old traditional ballads (such as “Silver Dagger” and “Dink’s Song”) to contemporary com ...