Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time was a 1968 album of poetry spoken and sung by Joan Baez. Composer-conductor Peter Schickele (of P. D. Q. Bach fame) did the orchestration, as he had on Baez's previous albums Noël (1966) and Joan (1967).
Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | June 1968 | |||
Recorded | Vanguard Studios, New York, 1968 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 40:40 | |||
Label | Vanguard VSD-79275 | |||
Producer | Maynard Solomon | |||
Joan Baez chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | link |
Rolling Stone | (positive) [1] |
The album was released during a time when many folk, pop and rock artists were experimenting with mixing their music with classical orchestration (e.g. The Beatles, Judy Collins, The Rolling Stones.)
Track listing
Side 1
- "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)
- "I Saw the Vision of Armies" (Walt Whitman)
- "Minister of War" (Arthur Waley)
- "Song In the Blood" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jacques Prévert)
- "Casida of the Lament" (J.L. Gili, Federico García Lorca)
- "Of the Dark Past" (James Joyce)
- "London" (William Blake)
- "In Guernica" (Norman Rosten)
- "Who Murdered the Minutes" (Henry Treece)
- "Oh, Little Child" (Henry Treece)
- "No Man Is an Island" (John Donne)
Side 2
- "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" (James Joyce)
- "All the Pretty Little Horses" (Traditional)
- "Childhood III" (Arthur Rimbaud, Louis Varese)
- "The Magic Wood" (Henry Treece)
- "Poems from the Japanese" (Kenneth Rexroth)
- "Colours" (Peter Levi, Robin Milner-Gulland, Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
- "All in green went my love riding" (E. E. Cummings)
- "Gacela of the Dark Death" (Federico García Lorca, Stephen Spender)
- "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" (Wilfred Owen)
- "Evil" (N. Cameron, Arthur Rimbaud)
- "Epitaph for a Poet" (Countee Cullen)
- "Mystic Numbers- 36"
- "When The Shy Star Goes Forth In Heaven" (James Joyce)
- "The Angel" (William Blake)
- "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)
Personnel
- Joan Baez – vocals, guitar
Chart positions
Year | Chart | Position |
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1968 | Billboard Pop Albums | 84 |
References
- Grissim, John (12 October 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2014.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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