Joan Baez (born 1941)

Spanish-American singer-songwriter, performing ballads, blues and some traditional songs, often on political subjects.

Albums.

Title.	year.	Label.	number
Joan Baez	1960	Vanguard	VSD 2077
[Reissue]	1965	Fontana	TFL 6002
[Reissue]	1973	Vanguard	VSD 79073
[Reissue]	1988	Start	VFCD 7101
[Reissue]	1994	Vanguard	VMD 2077
[Reissued as "Debut Album"]	2001
Joan Baez 2	1961	Vanguard	VSD 79094
[Reissue]	1961	Vanguard	VSD 2097
[Reissue]	1961	Fontana	STFL 6025
[Reissued as "Vol 2: Remastered"]	2001	Vanguard
Joan Baez in Concert (live)	1962	Vanguard	VSD 79112
[Reissue]	1962	Vanguard	VSD 2122
[Reissue]	1962	Fontana	STFL 6033
Joan Baez in concert part 2 (live)	1964	Vanguard	VSD 79113
[Reissue]	1964	Vanguard	VSD 2133
[Reissue]	1964	Fontana	TFL 6033
Joan Baez 5	1964	Vanguard	VSD 79160
[Reissue]	1965	Fontana	TFL 6063
Farewell Angelina	1965	Vanguard	VSD 79200
[Reissue]	1965	Vanguard	VSD 23006
[Reissue]	1965	Fontana	TFL 6058
[Reissued as "Farewell Angelina: Remastered"]	2002
Noel	1966	Vanguard	VSD 79230
[Reissue]	1966	Vanguard	VSD 23018
[Reissue]	1966	Fontana	STFL 6078
Joan	1967	Vanguard	VSD 79240
[Reissue]	1967	Vanguard	VSD 23022
[Reissue]	1967	Fontana	STFL 6082
Baptism - A Journey Through Our Time	1968	Vanguard	SVRL 19000
[Reissue]	1968	Vanguard	VSD 79275
[Reissue]	1989	Start	VFCD7 103
[Reissue]	1998	Vanguard	VMD 79279
Any Day Now	1969	Vanguard	VSD 79306/7
[Reissue]	1969	Vanguard	55/66
David's Album	1969	Vanguard	SVRL 19050
[Reissue]	1994	Vanguard	VMD 79308
One Day At A Time	1970	Vanguard	VSD 23010
[Reissue]	1996	Vanguard	VMD 79310
Blessed Are	1971	Vanguard	VSD 6570/1
Carry It On (original soundtrack)	1971	Vanguard	VSD-79313
Come From the Shadows	1972	A & M	SP-4339
Where Are You Now, My Son?	1973	A & M (USA)	4390
[Reissue]	1973	A & M (UK)	AMLH 64390
Gracias a la Vida (Here's To Life)	1974	A & M	AMLH 63614
Contemporary Ballad Book	1974	Vanguard	VSD 49/50
Diamonds and Rust	1975	A & M	AMLH 64527
[Reissue]	2003
From Every Stage (live)	1976
Gulf Winds	1976
Blowin' Away	1977
Honest Lullaby	1979
European Tour (live)	1981
Recently	1988
Speaking of Dreams	1989
Play Me Backwards	1993
Gone From Danger	1997
Dark Chords on a Big Guitar	2003
The Complete A & R Recordings	2003
Bowery Songs (live)	2005
Day After Tomorrow	2008	Razor and Tie	RTADV830022

Compilations.

Title.	year.	Label.	number.
Songs of the USA	1965	Super Majestic	SBBH 1.540
Queen of Hearts	1966
Joan Baez on Vanguard	1969	Vanguard	SVXL 100
The First Ten Years	1970	Vanguard	6635 003
[Reissue]	1987	Vanguard	VSD 6560-2
[Reissue]	1993	Vanguard	D 41837
Golden Hour	1972	Pye	GH 843
The Joan Baez Ballad Book	1972
Hits, The Greatest and Others	1973	Vanguard	VSD 79332
Best of	1977	A & M	AMLH 63665
Spotlight On	1980	Portrait	1008
Best of Joan C Baez	1991	Polydor
The Compact Collection (3 CDs)	1993
Rare Live and Classic 1958 -1989	1994
Baez Sings Dylan	1998
Greatest Hits	2000
Universal Masters Collection	2001
Best of the Vanguard Years	2005	Vanguard
Vanguard Visionaries	2007	Vanguard
How Sweet The Sound (*)	2009	Proper

(* CD and DVD)

Live Albums.

Title.	year.	Label.	number.
The Best of Joan Baez (early 1959 live Newport)	1963
European Tour (live)	1980	Portrait	PRT-84790
[Reissued as "Live"]	1985	Epic	EPC-463390-2
Diamonds and Rust in the Bullring (live)	1989
Ring them Bells (live)	1995

Anthology - Altan, Kate Rusby, Beth Orton, Martin Simpson, Eliza Carthy, Joan Baez et al.

Album title.	year	Label.	Number.
Cool as Folk: Cambridge Folk Festival (live)	2007	?	?

Anthology - Joan Baez, Dolly Parton, Chrissie Hynde, Rufus Wainwright, Dar Williams, Jimmy Webb et al.

Album title.	year	Label.	Number.
Born To the Breed - A Tribute To Judy Collins	2008	Warner	?

Best Albums(*).

Title.	year.
Joan Baez	1960
Joan Baez 2	1961
Diamonds and Rust	1975
Joan Baez 5	1964
Farewell Angelina	1965
Gracias a la Vida	1974
Baptism - A Journey Through Our Time	1968
David's Album	1969

(*)According to critical opinion.

Singles.

Title.	year.	Label.	Number
Banks of the Ohio/ Old Blue	1961
Lonesome Road/ Pal of Mine	1962
What Have They done to The Rain/ Danger Waters	1962
We Shall Overcome (live)/ What Have They Done To The Rain (live)	1963
With God on Our Side/ Railroad Bill - Daddy You've Been On My Mind (Medley)	1964
It Ain't Me Babe/ Go 'Way From My window	1964
We Shall Overcome/ Don't Think Twice	1965	Fontana	TF 564
There But For Fortune/ Daddy You Been On My Mind	1965	Vanguard	VS 35031
There But For Fortune/ Plaisir D'amour	1965	Fontana	TF 587
It's All Over Now Baby Blue/ Daddy You've Been on My Mind	1965	Fontana	TF 604
Farewell Angelina/ Queen of Hearts	1965	Fontana	TF 639
Silver Dagger and Other Things (E.P.)	1965
Pack Up Your Sorrows/ Swallow Song	1966	Fontana	TF 727
Cantique De Noel/ Little Drummer Boy	1966
Be Not Too Hard/ North	1967
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	1966
Love is Just a Four-Letter Word/ Love Minus Zero - No Limit	1969
If I Knew/ Rock, Salt and Nails	1969
Hickory Wind/ Four Days	1969
No Expectations/ One Day At A Time	1970
Sweet Sir Galahad/ Ghetto	1970
Carry It On/ Rock, Salt and Nails	1971
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down/ When Time Is Stolen	1971	Vanguard	VS 35138
Let It Be/ Poor Wayfaring Stranger	1971
Will the Circle Be Unbroken/ Just A closer Walk With Thee	1972
In The Quiet Morning/ Song of Bangladesh	1972
In The Quiet Morning/ To Bobby	1972
The Ballad Of Sacco and Vanzetti/ Here's To You	1973
Guantanamera/ Forever Young	1974
Blue Sky/ Dida	1975
Diamonds and Rust/ Winds of the Old Days	1975
I'm Blowing Away/ Altar Boy and the Thief	1977
I'm Blowing Away/ Luba The Baroness	1977
Time Rag/ Miracles	1977
No Mermaid/ Fushing/ Diamonds and Rust (with Mary-Chapin Carpenter)	1999
There But For Fortune/ It's All Over Now Baby Blue

DVDs.

Title	year.	Label.
How Sweet The Sound (CD + DVD)	2009
In Performance	?2010
In Concert	1989
Three Worlds, Three Voices, One Vision (*)	2005	Kultur Video
Live Aid (4 DVDs) (**) (1985)	2004

(* Joan Baez, Mercedes Sosa, Konstantin Wecker).
(** One song only - "Amazing Grace").

DVD - Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Ritchie Havens, The Who, Janis Joplin, Country Joe McDonald, Jimi Hendrix et al.

Title	year.	Label.
Woodstock (The Director's Cut) (*)	2001	Warner Brotherrs

(* recorded 1969).

DVD - Pete Seeger concert, with guests Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan et al.

Title	year.	Label.
The Power of Song	2008

Hit singles.

Title.	year.	Highest position.
We Shall Overcome/ Don't Think Twice	1965	26
There But For Fortune/ Daddy You Been On My Mind	1965	50 (USA)
There But For Fortune/ Plaisir D'amour	1965	8 (UK)
It's All Over Now Baby Blue/ Daddy You've Been on My Mind	1965	22
Farewell Angelina/ Queen of Hearts	1965	35
Pack Up Your Sorrows/ Swallow Song	1966	50
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down/ When Time Is Stolen	1971	6

Hit albums.

Title.	year.	Highest position
Joan Baez	1960	9 (in 1965)
Joan Baez in concert part 2 (live)	1964	8
Joan Baez 5	1964	3
Farewell Angelina	1965	5
Joan Baez on Vanguard	1969	15
First Ten Years	1971	41

Books: "And a Voice To Sing With" by Joan Baez (1988)
"The Joan Baez Songbook" by Maynard Solomon and Elie Seigmeister (1964)
"Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina" by David Hajdu (2006)

Last updated on 08/01/2011