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Gone from Danger (2CD)
Joan Baez has always been a top-notch interpreter and a perceptive spotter of young talent. On Gone from Danger, she hooks up with a number of talented young songwriters, simultaneously offering them a higher-profile platform for their work and giving her own career a needed boost. Folk-rocker Sinead Lohan contributes the gorgeous "No Mermaid" and "Who Do You Think I Am," while Baez takes on a trio of tunes by Richard Shindell, including "Reunion Hill," which ranks with the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (which Baez memorably covered) and Dave Alvin's "Andersonville" as among the best contemporary songs about the Civil War. There are also songs by Dar Williams ("February," "If I Wrote You") and Betty Elders ("Crack in the Mirror") and one by Baez herself ("Lily"). All of them are terrific, and the performances are among Baez's best since her commercial heyday. --Daniel Durchholz
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Tracks| 1 | No Mermaid | | 2 | Reunion Hill | | 3 | Crack in the Mirror | | 4 | February | | 5 | Fishing | | 6 | If I Wrote You | | 7 | Lily | | 8 | Who Do You Think I Am | | 9 | Mercy Bound | | 10 | Money For Floods | | 11 | If I Wrote You | | 12 | No Mermaid | | 13 | Reunion Hill | | 14 | Crack in the Mirror | | 15 | Long Bed From Kenya | | 16 | February | | 17 | You're Aging Well | | 18 | Fishing | | 19 | Money For Floods | | 20 | Who Do You Think I Am | | 21 | To Ramona |
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