Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square is the first album featuring Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

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Joan Baez recorded this album in a basement together with Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos. Only seven of the eighteen tracks on this album were solos by Baez. In 1963, an unauthorized reissue of the album was released on Squire Records as The Best of Joan Baez (with four tracks missing), but was withdrawn after it had made the Top 50, when Baez took legal action against it.

Track listing

1. Banks of the Ohio (Joan Baez)
2. O What a Beautiful City (Joan Baez)
3. Sail Away Ladies (Joan Baez)
4. Black Is the Color (Joan Baez)
5. Lowlands (Joan Baez)
6. What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby (Joan Baez)
7. Kitty (duet Joan Baez/Bill Wood)
8. So Soon in the Morning
   So Soon in the Morning
   "So Soon in the Morning" is a traditional religious song performed in 1959 by Joan Baez and Bill Wood on Baez's first album, Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square. The duo sung it in a fast gospel tempo...
   
    (duet Joan Baez/Bill Wood)
9. Careless Love (duet Joan Baez/Bill Wood)
10. Le Cheval Dans La Baignoire (The Horse in the Bathtub) (Bill Wood)
11. John Henry
    John Henry (folklore)
    John Henry is an American folk hero and tall tale. Henry worked as a "steel-driver"—a man tasked with hammering and chiseling rock in the construction of tunnels for railroad tracks. In the legend, John Henry's prowess as a steel-driver was measured in a race against a steam powered hammer,...
    
    (Bill Wood)
12. Travelin' Shoes (Bill Wood)
13. Bold Soldier (Bill Wood)
14. Walie Walie (Ted Alevizos)
15. Rejected Lover (Ted Alevizos)
16. Astrapsen (The Sun Is Risen) (Ted Alevizos)
17. Lass from the Low Country (Ted Alevizos)
18. Don't Weep After Me (trio Joan Baez, Bill Wood, Ted Alevizos)