The First 10 Years

Infobox Album
Name = The First 10 Years
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Joan Baez


Released = October 1970
Recorded = compilation
Genre = Folk
Length = 70:00
Label = Vanguard
Producer = Maynard Solomon
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:52kzikv6bbc9 link]
Last album = "(I Live) One Day at a Time"
(1970)
This album = "The First 10 Years"
(1970)
Next album = "Carry It On"
(1971)

"The First 10 Years" is a 1970 Joan Baez compilation album, which rounds up highlights of her first decade with the Vanguard label. The album was her first "official" compilation, and includes material ranging from her early 1960s traditional folk, through her Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs covers, to her later experiments with classical orchestraton and country music. Originally released on vinyl as a two-record set, the 1987 CD reissue omitted five songs.

The cover photo was taken by famed rock photographer Jim Marshall. Inside the original gatefold album on the original vinyl release was a photo montage of images from Baez' career.

Track listing

#"Ghetto" (H. Banks/B. BramlettB. Crutcher)
#"If I Were A Carpenter" (Tim Hardin)
#"Silver Dagger" (traditional) *
#"Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word" (Bob Dylan)
#"There But For Fortune" (Phil Ochs)
#"Will The Circle Be Unbroken" (traditional) *
#"John Riley" (traditional, arr. by Ricky Neff)
#"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (Bob Dylan)
#"Mary Hamilton" (traditional)
#"Carry It On" (Gil Turner) *
#"Manha De Carnival" (M. Bonfa)
#"If I Knew" (N. Duschek, Pauline Marden)
#"With God On Our Side" (Bob Dylan)
#"Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" (Bob Dylan)
#"Geordie" (traditional)
#"Te Ador" (traditional)
#"Green Green Grass Of Home" (Curly Putman) *
#"No Expectations" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
#"Sweet Sir Galahad" (Joan Baez)
#"Turquoise" (Donovan)
#"Farewell, Angelina" (Bob Dylan)
#"London" (W. Blake)/Old Welsh Song (Henry Treece) *
#"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (Bob Dylan)

The CD reissue did not include the following tracks: "Silver Dagger", "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", "Carry It On", "Green, Green Grass Of Home", and "London/Old Welsh Song".