Description
On what she has declared her final record JOAN BAEZ finds a just balance between private and public personae through a set of well-chosen cover versions ably produced by Joe Henry; picked guitars, thrumming bass, dabs of percussion, the odd wailing saw. The incandescently vibrating soprano is worn down nearer a burnished alto after a half century of committed music-making and activism. Yet the takeaway from Joan Baez’s latest – following her well-earned 2017 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – is how essential her work remains.
