Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time

Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released	June 1968
Recorded	Vanguard Studios, New York, 1968
Genre	Folk
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Maynard Solomon
Joan Baez chronology
Joan (1967) Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time (1968) Any Day Now (1968)

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Rolling Stone	(positive) [1]

Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time was a 1968 album of poetry spoken and sung by Joan Baez. Peter Schickele (of P. D. Q. Bach fame) did the orchestration, as he did on 1967's Joan.

The album was released during a time when many folk, pop and rock artists were experimenting with mixing their music with classical orchestration (e.g. The Beatles, Judy Collins, The Rolling Stones.)

Track listing

1. "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)
2. "I Saw the Vision of Armies" (Walt Whitman)
3. "Minister of War" (Arthur Waley)
4. "Song In the Blood" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jacques Prévert)
5. "Casida of the Lament" (J.L. Gili, Federico García Lorca)
6. "Of the Dark Past" (James Joyce)
7. "London" (William Blake)
8. "In Guernica" (Norman Rosten)
9. "Who Murdered the Minutes" (Henry Treece)
10. "Oh, Little Child" (Henry Treece)
11. "No Man Is an Island" (John Donne)
12. "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" (James Joyce)
13. "All the Pretty Little Horses" (Traditional)
14. "Childhood III" (Arthur Rimbaud, Louis Varese)
15. "The Magic Wood" (Henry Treece)
16. "Poems from the Japanese" (Kenneth Rexroth)
17. "Colours" (Peter Levi, Robin Milner-Gulland, Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
18. "All in green went my love riding" (E. E. Cummings)
19. "Gacela of the Dark Death" (Federico García Lorca, Stephen Spender)
20. "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" (Wilfred Owen)
21. "Evil" (N. Cameron, Arthur Rimbaud)
22. "Epitaph for a Poet" (Countee Cullen)
23. "Mystic Numbers- 36"
24. "When The Shy Star Goes Forth In Heaven" (James Joyce)
25. "The Angel" (William Blake)
26. "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)

Personnel

• Joan Baez – vocals, guitar

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1968	Billboard Pop Albums	84

References

1. Grissim, John (12 October 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2014.