Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square is a collaborative folk album featuring Joan Baez, Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos; it is also Baez's debut appearance as six of the eighteen tracks were solos by her. The album was recorded by Stephen Fassett in "a friend's basement studio" in Boston, May 1959.[1]
| Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square | ||||
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| Studio album by Joan Baez, Bill Wood, Ted Alevizos | ||||
| Released | 1959 | |||
| Recorded | Boston, May 1959 | |||
| Genre | Folk, Negro spiritual, Greek traditional music | |||
| Length | 46:37 | |||
| Language | English, French, Greek | |||
| Label | Veritas | |||
| Producer | Lemuel Marshall Wells | |||
| Joan Baez chronology | ||||
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In 1963, an unauthorized reissue of the album was released on Squire Records as The Best of Joan Baez[2] (minus four tracks that did not contain Baez' vocals — "Le Cheval dans la baignoire," "The Bold Soldier," "Lass from the Low Country" and "Rejected Lover"), but was withdrawn after Baez took legal action against it (by which time the album had already made the top-fifty on the U.S. albums charts).[3]
Harvard Square is a place in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Baez had a residence at Club 47, located on the square.[4]
Track listing
editAll tracks are written by Folksong or Traditional, except where noted
| No. | Title | Performers | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "On the Banks of the Ohio" | Baez | 2:40 |
| 2. | "O What a Beautiful City" (Spiritual) | Baez | 3:21 |
| 3. | "Sail Away Ladies" | Baez | 2:49 |
| 4. | "Black Is the Color" | Baez | 2:42 |
| 5. | "Lowlands" | Baez | 2:48 |
| 6. | "What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby" (Spiritual) | Baez | 2:30 |
| 7. | "Kitty" (South African Folksong) | Baez & Wood | 2:01 |
| 8. | "So Soon in the Morning" (Spiritual) | Baez & Wood | 2:08 |
| 9. | "Careless Love" (Spiritual) | Baez & Wood | 2:27 |
| Total length: | 23:26 | ||
| No. | Title | Performers | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Le Cheval dans la baignoire (The Horse in the Bathtub)" (Stephen Coleman) | Wood | 2:08 |
| 2. | "John Henry" | Wood | 3:17 |
| 3. | "Travellin' Shoes" | Wood | 2:13 |
| 4. | "The Bold Soldier" | Wood | 1:53 |
| 5. | "Walie Walie" (Appalachian Folksong) | Alevizos | 2:02 |
| 6. | "Rejected Lover" (Spiritual) | Alevizos | 3:28 |
| 7. | "Astrapsen–The Sun Is Risen" (Traditional Greek) | Alevizos | 1:46 |
| 8. | "Lass from the Low Country" (North Carolina Folksong) | Alevizos | 3:11 |
| 9. | "Don't Weep After Me" (Trad. West Indian Folksong) | Baez–Wood–Alevizos | 2:49 |
| Total length: | 23:11 | ||
References
edit- ^ Harkins, Thomas E. (August 15, 2019). Woodstock FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Fabled Garden. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781493050802 – via Google Books.
- ^ The Best of Joan Baez at Discogs (list of releases)
- ^ "Joan Baez, Bill Wood, Ted Alevizos - Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square" – via www.discogs.com.
- ^ Starr, Larry; Waterman, Christopher Alan; Hodgson, Jay (August 30, 2009). Rock: A Canadian Perspective. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-542761-5 – via Google Books.
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