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Track List
01) Whistle Down the Wind
02) Be of Good Heart
03) Another World
04) Civil War
05) The Things That We Are Made Of
06) The President Sang Amazing Grace
07) Last Leaf
08) Silver Blade
09) The Great Correction
10) I Wish the Wars Were All Over
01) Whistle Down the Wind
02) Be of Good Heart
03) Another World
04) Civil War
05) The Things That We Are Made Of
06) The President Sang Amazing Grace
07) Last Leaf
08) Silver Blade
09) The Great Correction
10) I Wish the Wars Were All Over
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2018
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"Whistle Down the Wind" is the final studio album by American folk singer and musician Joan Baez, released on 2 March 2018 on the Proper label, her first studio album in almost a decade. The album features songs written by such composers as Tom Waits, Josh Ritter and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Joe Henry produced the album.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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There is a disconnect between the cover of Joan Baez’s 25th studio album, showing the 77-year-old folk queen beaming and radiant, and its 10 songs about mortality and war. Baez is a more playful character than is often painted (she is a wicked mimic of her ex, Bob Dylan), but her calling card has always been gravitas: earnest peace anthems, fearless campaigning in line with her Quaker background, not much in the way of personal candour.
On what she has declared her final record, she finds a just balance between private and public personae through a set of well-chosen cover versions ably, if austerely, produced by Joe Henry; picked guitars, thrumming bass, dabs of percussion, the odd wailing saw.
The years have added grain and intimacy to Baez’s magisterial voice, especially on songs centred on retrospection, regret and mortality. She finds the tenderness beneath Tom Waits’s gravel-voiced title track (“Can’t stay here and I’m scared to leave”) and Last Leaf, and the forgiveness in Mary Chapin Carpenter’s The Things That We Are Made Of. The President Sang Amazing Grace, Zoe Mulford’s account of the 2015 Charleston church shooting, hits a sweet spot, while the folk standard I Wish the Wars Were All Over concludes in simple, utopian style. A graceful bow-out.
Reviewed by Neil Spencer for theguardian.com.
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"Whistle Down the Wind" is the final studio album by American folk singer and musician Joan Baez, released on 2 March 2018 on the Proper label, her first studio album in almost a decade. The album features songs written by such composers as Tom Waits, Josh Ritter and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Joe Henry produced the album.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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There is a disconnect between the cover of Joan Baez’s 25th studio album, showing the 77-year-old folk queen beaming and radiant, and its 10 songs about mortality and war. Baez is a more playful character than is often painted (she is a wicked mimic of her ex, Bob Dylan), but her calling card has always been gravitas: earnest peace anthems, fearless campaigning in line with her Quaker background, not much in the way of personal candour.
On what she has declared her final record, she finds a just balance between private and public personae through a set of well-chosen cover versions ably, if austerely, produced by Joe Henry; picked guitars, thrumming bass, dabs of percussion, the odd wailing saw.
The years have added grain and intimacy to Baez’s magisterial voice, especially on songs centred on retrospection, regret and mortality. She finds the tenderness beneath Tom Waits’s gravel-voiced title track (“Can’t stay here and I’m scared to leave”) and Last Leaf, and the forgiveness in Mary Chapin Carpenter’s The Things That We Are Made Of. The President Sang Amazing Grace, Zoe Mulford’s account of the 2015 Charleston church shooting, hits a sweet spot, while the folk standard I Wish the Wars Were All Over concludes in simple, utopian style. A graceful bow-out.
Reviewed by Neil Spencer for theguardian.com.
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