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Joan Baez wrote "The Story of Bangladesh" in 1971. This song was based on the Pakistani army crackdown on unarmed sleeping Bengali students at Dhaka University on March 25, 1971, which ignited the prolonged nine-month Bangladesh Liberation War. [55] The song was later entitled "The Song of Bangladesh" and released in a 1972 album from Chandos ...
Joan Baez, Vol. 2: 1962 "Lonesome Road" b/w "Pal of Mine" — — — 1963 "What Have They Done to the Rain" b/w "Danger Waters" — — — Joan Baez in Concert "We Shall Overcome" b/w "What Have They Done to the Rain" (from Joan Baez in Concert) 90 — 26 Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2: 1965 "There But for Fortune" b/w "Daddy You Been on My ...
Joi Bangla is an EP by Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, issued in August 1971 on Apple Records. ... and Joan Baez wrote "Song for Bangladesh", ...
Like Joan Baez's "Song for Bangladesh", which Baez began performing in concert in late July 1971, Ginsberg's verses deplore the apathy shown by the US toward the crisis. [11] He contrasts the lack of US military assistance for the Bangladeshis with his country's preoccupation with "Bombing North Laos" and "Napalming North Vietnam".
Come from the Shadows is the thirteenth studio album (and fifteenth overall) by Joan Baez, released in 1972.After recording for the independent label Vanguard for more than a decade, Baez signed with A&M and attempted to point her career in a slightly more "commercial" direction (though the album still had overtly political overtones).
Baez later described "Diamonds & Rust" as "the best song of my life." "The really, really good stuff comes from down deep," she told Rolling Stone in 2017 , "and that was how strongly I was ...
The Boston Globe called Play Me Backwards "mostly an album of mature, surprisingly percussive folk-pop love songs that marks her finest work since her Diamonds and Rust album of 1975." [ 18 ] The Sun-Sentinel wrote that "Baez's erstwhile hyper-quivering soprano thankfully does not flutter so much, and has deepened marvelously with age."
Rare, Live & Classic is a 1993 box set compilation by Joan Baez.Released on Vanguard, where Baez had recorded her most influential work during the first twelve years of her career, the set also included material from her subsequent record labels, A&M, Columbia and Gold Castle Records, as well as a number of previously unreleased studio and live recordings.