The Debut Album＜限定盤/Red Vinyl＞

フォークの女王Joan Baezのデビューアルバム
ボーナストラック2曲追加、180g重量盤、レッド・ヴァイナルにて復刻

ジョーン・バエズが「Joan Baez」のセルフタイトルで1960年にVanguard labelに残したデビューアルバム。1959年に発売された「Folksinger's Round Harvard Square」のコンピレーションからボーナストラックを2曲追加し、180g重量盤・レッド・ヴァイナルにて復刻。

At the time of its release, Joan Baez's debut album was something of a revelation. The folk music revival was beginning to gather steam, stoked on the popular side by artists such as the Kingston Trio and the Easy Riders, as well as up-and-coming ensembles such as the Highwaymen, and on the more intense and serious side by the Weavers. The female singers on the scene were mostly old-time veteran activist types like Ronnie Gilbert and Malvina Reynolds, who was in her sixties. And then along comes this album, by a 19-year-old who looked more like the kind of co-ed every mother dreamt her son would come home with, displaying a voice from heaven, a soprano so pure and beguiling that the mere act of listening to her -- forget what she was singing -- was a pleasure. Baez's first album, made up primarily of traditional songs (including a startling version of "House of the Rising Sun"), was beguiling enough to woo even conservative-leaning listeners. Accompanied by the Weavers' Fred Hellerman and a pair of session singers, Baez gives a fine account of the most reserved and least confrontational aspects of the folk revival, presenting a brace of traditional songs (most notably "East Virginia" and "Mary Hamilton") with an urgency and sincerity that makes the listener feel as though they were being sung for the first time, and opening with a song that was to become her signature piece for many years, "Silver Dagger." The recording was notable for its purity of sound. ~ Bruce Eder