Joan (album)

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Joan
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released	August 1967
Recorded	April – June 1967
Studio	Vanguard Studios, New York City
Genre	Folk
Length	44:49
Label	Vanguard VSD-79240
Producer	Maynard Solomon
Joan Baez chronology
Noël (1966) Joan (1967) Portrait of Joan Baez (1967)

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Joan is the seventh studio album by Joan Baez, released in 1967. Having exhausted the standard voice/guitar folksong format by 1967, Baez collaborated with arranger-conductor Peter Schickele (with whom she'd worked on the 1966 Christmas album, Noël), on an album of orchestrated covers of mostly then-current pop and rock and roll songs. Works by Donovan, Paul Simon, Tim Hardin, the Beatles, and Richard Fariña were included, as well as selections by Jacques Brel and Edgar Allan Poe.

The recording of "Children of Darkness" was a tribute to Baez's brother-in-law, novelist and musician Richard Fariña, who had been killed in a motorcycle accident a year earlier.

"La Colombe" is a French anti-war anthem about French soldiers being sent to fight Algeria in the latter country's bid for independence.

The 2003 Vanguard reissue contains two bonus tracks: "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread" and "Autumn Leaves", the latter sung entirely in French.