Best of Joan C. Baez explained

The Best of Joan C. Baez
Type:greatest
Artist:Joan Baez
Cover:bestofbaez.jpg
Released:November 1977
Recorded:1972–1976
Genre:Folk
Label:A&M
Compiler:David Kershenbaum
Prev Title:Blowin' Away
Prev Year:1977
Next Title:The Joan Baez Country Music Album
Next Year:1979

The Best of Joan C. Baez is a Joan Baez compilation that A&M put together shortly after Baez left the label in 1977. Selections from five of her six A&M albums were included (no songs from 1973's Where Are You Now, My Son? appear), with the emphasis on material from 1975's Diamonds & Rust album. Liner notes were written by John L. Wasserman of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joan Baez; except where indicated

  1. "Diamonds & Rust"
  2. "Forever Young" (Bob Dylan)
  3. "Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)"
  4. "Simple Twist of Fate" (Bob Dylan)
  5. "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" (Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright)
  6. "Love Song to a Stranger"
  7. "Please Come to Boston" (Dave Loggins)
  8. "Children and All That Jazz"
  9. "Sweeter for Me"
  10. "Imagine" (John Lennon)
  11. "Gracias a la Vida" (Violeta Parra)
  12. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Robbie Robertson)

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