Joan Baez - Essen, Grugahalle - 17. March 1973 (FM Source)

The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the 1960s, Joan Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late '50s, she has put in the service of folk and pop music as well as a variety of political causes.

Fluent in Spanish as well as in English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the counterculture days of the 1960s and now encompasses everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music. Although a songwriter herself, Baez is generally regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, having recorded songs by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and many others. In recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of modern songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.

Subjected to racial slurs and discrimination in her own childhood because of her Mexican heritage and features, Joan Baez became involved with a variety of social causes early in her career, including civil rights and nonviolence. She was sometimes jailed for her protests. Joan Baez married David Harris, a Vietnam draft protestor, in 1968, and he was in jail for most of the years of their marriage. They divorced in 1973, after having one child, Gabriel Earl.

Here´s a full concert bootleg of the show Joan Baez played at Grugahalle, Essen, Germany on March 17th of '73 (FM broadcast source).

Here you can read a concert review in german language: "Die heilige Johanne mit der Gitarre"e


01 - Farewell Angelina
02 - I Shall Be Released
03 - Earth Angel
04 - Handsome Jonny
05 - Kumbaya My Lord
06 - You Ain't Goin Nowhere
07 - To Bobby
08 - Lovesong To A Stranger
09 - Joe Hill
10 - All My Trails
11 - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
12 - Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind
13 - Plaisir D'amour
14 - Yesterday
15 - Imagine
16 - Let It Be
17 - We Shall Overcome

Joan Baez - Essen, Grugahalle, 17. March 1973
(192 kbps, cover art included)