ONCE UPON A TIME...Come From The Shadows

 

JOAN BAEZ Come From The Shadows  (A&M,1972) - Folk


      While Baez was a force in the 60s anti-war movement and a civil rights advocate, politics hit her closer to home in 1969 when her husband, the anti-war journalist David Harris, was jailed for draft evasion. The resulting album, Come From the Shadows, had Americana flourishes, a folk soul, and was unambiguously in conversation with 70s rock. In the Quiet Morning is an ecstatic elegy for Janis Joplin, the stately piano of Rainbow Road recalls classic Elton John, while To Bobby calls out Bob Dylan for his lapsed activism (he was unamused). Most stunningly, Baez is reinvented as a country empath in Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose), recruiting a cast of Nashville musicians in a call-out of police brutality and the inhuman treatment of undocumented immigrants, climaxing in a grave call to action: “Help us raze the prisons to the ground.”

TRACKLIST: Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
                         Rainbow Road
                         Love Song To A Stranger
                         Myths
                         In The Quiet Morning
                         All The Weary Mothers Of The Earth (People's Union #1)
                         To Bobby
                         Song Of Bangladesh
                         A Stranger In My Place
                         Tumbleweed
                         The Partisan
                         Imagine

          

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