[Baez, Joan] Siegmeister, Elie / Solomon, Maynard.

The Joan Baez Songbook. Arrangements and Introduction by Elie Siegmeister. Preface by John M. Conly. Illustrated by Eric Von Schmidt. Edited by Maynard Solomon. Music Editors Christa Landon & Jack Lothrop. With an Introduction by Major H.Schomburgk.

New York, Ryerson Music Publishers Inc., 1964. 20.4 cm x 27.8 cm. Frontispiece. 189 pages. With black and white and colour illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor rubbing to cover edges and corners. Otherwise, clean and bright.

Includes for example the following musical arrangements: Wagoner’s Lad / Black is the Color / Once I Had a Sweetheart / I Never Will Marry / Queen of Hearts / Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens / Mary Hamilton / The Unquiet Grave / House Carpenter / Silver Dagger / The Trees They Do Grow High / The Lily of the West / Rambler Gambler / House of the Rising Sun / Kumbaya / Copper Kettle / Twelve Gates to the City / Somebody Got Lost in a Storm / Annabel Lee etc.

This is a book of songs Joan Baez sings on her Vanguard recordings and at her concerts. Here are sixty-six of the most haunting and beautiful folk songs and songs in the folk vein. Many of these songs have never before appeared in print. Others have never before appeared in the version published here. The texts are full. The vocal lines and arrangements for piano and guitar have been kept close as is possible to the way Joan Baez performs them. They have an aptness and basic simplicity which brings them within everyone’s reach. (From cover notes)

Joan Chandos Baez (born 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish and English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages.

Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets other composers’ work, having recorded songs by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Catalogue Eleven – Music · Folk Music · Illustrated · Music · Music – Rare · Music Singers · Musicians · Songs
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0825626110
• Inventory Number: 200400AB

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