Joan Baez "Joan Baez" (1960)
I'll have to admit that I know little about Joan, though she's always been on my radar to check out.
This album is pretty powerful stuff, particularly as it's mostly just guitar and voice. I can hear her influence stretching down the way to artists from Cat Stevens to Laura Marling.
I love this interview quote from her about making the album:
It took four nights. We were in some big, smelly ballroom at a hotel on Broadway, way up by the river. We couldn't record on Wednesday nights because they played bingo there. I would be down there on this dirty old rug with two microphones, one for the voice and one for the guitar. I just did my set; it was probably all I knew. Just put 'em down. I did "Mary Hamilton" once, that was it. That's the way we made 'em in the old days. As long as a dog didn't run through the room or something, you had it.
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