From Every Stage Explained

From Every Stage
Type:Live album
Artist:Joan Baez
Cover:fromeverystage.jpg
Released:January 1976[1]
Recorded:U.S. concert tour, 1975
Genre:Folk
Length:75:07
Label:A&M
Producer:David Kershenbaum
Prev Title:Diamonds & Rust
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:Gulf Winds
Next Year:1976

From Every Stage is a double live album recorded by Joan Baez on tour in the summer of 1975.[2] The first half of the album was acoustic, with Baez accompanying herself on her guitar, while the second half features electric backup. Baez' recording of "Blowin' in the Wind" from this album was later included in the Forrest Gump soundtrack album. The song "Natalya" was dedicated to Russian poet and human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya.

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" (Traditional)
  2. "Blessed Are..." (Joan Baez)
  3. "Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen)
  4. "Love Song to a Stranger, Part Two" (Joan Baez)
  5. "I Shall Be Released" (Bob Dylan)
  6. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan)
  7. "Stewball" (Traditional)
  8. "Natalya" (R. Apps, G.T. Moore, Shusha Guppy)
  9. "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti" (Joan Baez, Ennio Morricone)

See also: Woody Guthrie.

  1. "Joe Hill" (Alfred Hayes, Earl Robinson)

Disc Two

  1. "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" (Bob Dylan)
  2. "Forever Young" (Bob Dylan)
  3. "Diamonds & Rust" (Joan Baez)
  4. "Boulder to Birmingham" (Emmylou Harris)
  5. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Traditional)
  6. "Oh Happy Day" (Edwin Hawkins)
  7. "Please Come to Boston" (Dave Loggins)
  8. "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" (Bob Dylan)
  9. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Robbie Robertson)
  10. "Amazing Grace" (Traditional)

Personnel

Technical

Album credits state that the recordings were made in 1975 at Philadelphia Spectrum, July 25; Nassau Coliseum, July 26; Hollywood Bowl, August 6; Sacramento Convention Center, August 7; Berkeley Greek Theatre, August 9; and Monterey Peninsula College, August 10.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: From Every Stage . joanbaez.com . April 21, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120314141928/http://www.joanbaez.com/Discography/FES.html . March 14, 2012 . dead .
  2. February 26, 1976 . From Every Stage (Advertisement) . . Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. . 207 . 18 .