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Mar 5, 2018The years have added grain and intimacy to Baez’s magisterial voice, especially on songs centred on retrospection, regret and mortality.
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UncutMar 2, 2018It offers astutely resonant personal ruminations at the dame time as honouring Baez's enduring search for material which speaks to the social condition of the age. [Apr 2018, p.25]
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Mar 2, 2018The 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.
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Mar 2, 2018The production by Joe Henry is superb, matching Baez's vocals with subtle but simpatico accompaniment from a studio band that knows how to shine while making room for the protagonist. Whistle Down the Wind is a portrait of an artist who, at the age of 77, has not given up on her muse or her ideals, and while it's subtle, it's also a deeply moving piece of work that demands attention.
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Mar 12, 2018She doesn’t shy away from political protest, but she’s careful to couch her dissent in the personal and the compassionate.