What for more than thirty years fascinated me, "Gracias a la Vida", is this unaufgesetzte vitality and equally a deep compassion for the poor - you name it because of me authenticity. Joan Baez combines her Latin American roots (her father was Mexican) with a great love of folk music and with her very strong sense of social injustice. Lyrical Ballads change here with enthusiastic rhythms full of vitality. Each of these fourteen songs convinces with a very strong Spanish (or, in the case of "El Rossniyol", Catalan) Pronunciation and more economical, but very carefully coordinated instrumentation of guitar, bass and percussion, here and there by the beautiful sound of castanets Violins and supplemented.
Who Joan Baez '(now unfortunately out of print) knows album "Come From The Shadows", the will be "Las Madres cansadas" to the future happy "All the Weary Mothers of the Earth" remember. "Te Recuerdo Amanda" the Chilean tribune Victor Jara, who was killed by the Pinochet regime is here represented as well as the lively "Guantanamera" of Cuban poet José Martí, whose song we always sang as students in Spanish classes. In addition to the - Violeta Parra borrowed - title song "Gracias a la Vida" However, it will be mainly "No Nos Moveran" and his Mexican Traditional "De Colores" which and the endurance of the Latin American continent, but also his unbridled pursuit of happiness his make legitimate hope to experience on a life of dignity.
¡Vive largo, Joan Baez!
