This is beautiful! Some of it is so breathtaking I am still trying to figure out why. But know, Joan Baez is a masterwork.

The Baez soprano is stunning. There’s a sort of naivete in the young voice-that is what is beautiful. And the record is all the better for its minimalism-Fred Hellerman of The Weavers plays second guitar- and that’s it.

The only downside is when the transfer to digital comes, the thing sounds so very very empty that it’s almost inhumane. But perhaps that is part of its attraction-that and the great songs-Mary Hamilton, Silver Dagger, Donna Donna-that have become favourites with Baez fans.