0047. Joan Baez
Joan Baez

Reading up on this one Joan Baez seems to be the yard-stick by which all else is measured. At least when it comes to folk music. And, well, I can't say it's all wrong, cause she truly delivers through her guitar and song.

However: the thing that bothers me throughout the whole album is the tremolo - she sings very pure and she lays a tremble on her voice in almost every damn bar of the songs. It just gets on my nerves after a while.

But still: it's an album with nice versions of thirteen British/American traditional folk songs (strangely the book "1001 albums..." both lists just 12 and has a differend sleeve - I wonder who's got the wrong album). And I'm a bit amazed that they got it sounding so good in spite of their studio being a bingo hall set up with a couple of microphones. (hear that, Britney? with talent you don't need a multi million dollar production machinery around you)