Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time Explained
| Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Joan Baez |
| Cover: | BaezBaptism.jpg |
| Released: | June 1968 |
| Recorded: | 1968 |
| Studio: | Vanguard Studios, New York City |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Length: | 40:40 |
| Label: | Vanguard VSD-79275 |
| Producer: | Maynard Solomon |
| Prev Title: | Joan |
| Prev Year: | 1967 |
| Next Title: | Any Day Now |
| Next Year: | 1968 |
Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time is the eighth studio album of poetry spoken and sung by American singer-songwriter Joan Baez, released in 1968. 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).
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)
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