Joan Baez discography
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This is a discography for American folk singer and songwriter Joan Baez.
Studio albums25
EPs4
Soundtrack albums4
Live albums15
| Joan Baez discography | |
|---|---|
Baez at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in 2005 at Golden Gate Park | |
| Studio albums | 25 |
| EPs | 4 |
| Soundtrack albums | 4 |
| Live albums | 15 |
| Compilation albums | 23 |
| Singles | 35 |
| Video albums | 7 |
Studio albums
1959
"Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square" 1959 - with Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos
1960s
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
CAN [2] |
GER [3] |
NO [4] |
UK [5] | ||||||
| Joan Baez |
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20 | — | 38 | — | 9 | ||||
| Joan Baez, Vol. 2 |
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21 | — | — | — | — |
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| Joan Baez/5 |
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12 | — | — | — | 3 | ||||
| Farewell, Angelina |
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10 | — | 30 | — | 5 | ||||
| Noël |
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— | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Joan |
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38 | — | — | 16 | — | ||||
| Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time |
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84 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Any Day Now |
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30 | — | — | — | — |
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| David's Album |
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36 | 33 | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||
1970s
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
AUS [8] |
CAN [2] |
NO [4] | ||||||
| One Day at a Time |
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80 | — | 35 | — | ||||
| Blessed Are... |
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11 | 36 | 12 | 26 |
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| Come from the Shadows |
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48 | — | 41 | — | ||||
| Where Are You Now, My Son? |
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138 | — | — | — | ||||
| Gracias a la Vida |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| Diamonds & Rust |
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11 | 62 | 28 | — |
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| Gulf Winds |
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62 | — | 55 | — | ||||
| Blowin' Away |
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54 | — | 69 | — | ||||
| Honest Lullaby |
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113 | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||
1980–present
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
GER [3] |
UK [5] | |||||||
| Recently |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Speaking of Dreams |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Play Me Backwards |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Gone from Danger |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Dark Chords on a Big Guitar |
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— | — | — | |||||
| Day After Tomorrow |
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128 | 95 | 100 | |||||
| Whistle Down the Wind |
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88 | 8 | 47 | |||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||
Live albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
CAN [2] |
GER [3] |
UK [5] | ||||||
| Joan Baez in Concert |
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10 | — | — | — |
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| Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 |
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7 | — | 25 | 8 | ||||
| Joan Baez in San Francisco |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| Joan Baez In Italy |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| From Every Stage |
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34 | 49 | — | — | ||||
| European Tour[10] |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| Live Europe '83 |
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— | — | — | — |
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| Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| Ring Them Bells |
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— | — | — | — |
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| Live at Newport |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| Bowery Songs |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| Ring Them Bells (double-disc reissue with bonus tracks) |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| Diamantes[13] (limited issue for 2014 South American tour) |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| 75th Birthday Celebration (CD and DVD of show at Beacon Theatre) |
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— | — | 45 | — | ||||
| Live At Woodstock |
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— | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||
Soundtrack albums
- Sacco & Vanzetti, RCA Victor (1971)
- Carry It On, Vanguard (1971)
- Silent Running, Decca (1972)
- How Sweet the Sound, Razor & Tie (2009)
Compilations
- Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square (1959) / Re-Released as The Best of Joan Baez, Squire (1963)#45 POP
- Portrait of Joan Baez (1967) (UK Only)
- Joan Baez On Vanguard (1969) (UK Only) #15 UK
- The First 10 Years, Vanguard (November 1970) #73 US #41 UK #37 CAN
- The Joan Baez Ballad Book, Vanguard (1972) #188 US
- Hits: Greatest and Others, Vanguard (1973) #163 US, #63 Australia
- The Contemporary Ballad Book, Vanguard (1974)
- The Joan Baez Lovesong Album, Vanguard (1976) #205 US
- Best of Joan C. Baez, A&M (1977) #121 US
- The Joan Baez Country Music Album (1979)
- Very Early Joan, Vanguard (1982)
- Joan Baez: Classics, A&M (1986)
- Brothers in Arms, Gold Castle (1991)
- No Woman No Cry, Laserlight (February 1992)
- Rare, Live & Classic (box set), Vanguard (1993)
- The Best of Joan Baez, Vanguard (1995)
- Greatest Hits, A&M (1996)
- Vanguard Sessions: Baez Sings Dylan, Vanguard (1998)
- Imagine, Universal 1998
- Best of Joan Baez: The Millennium Collection, A&M/Universal (1999)
- The Complete A&M Recordings, Universal/A&M (2003)
- Vanguard Visionaries: Joan Baez, Vanguard (2007)
- The Complete Gold Castle Masters (box set), Razor & Tie (2017)
Singles
| Year | Single (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated |
Peak positions | Certification | Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [14] |
US AC [15] |
UK [5] | |||||||
| 1961 | "Banks of the Ohio" b/w "Old Blue" |
— | — | — | Joan Baez, Vol. 2 | ||||
| 1962 | "Lonesome Road" b/w "Pal of Mine" |
— | — | — | |||||
| 1963 | "What Have They Done to the Rain" b/w "Danger Waters" |
— | — | — | Joan Baez in Concert | ||||
| "We Shall Overcome" b/w "What Have They Done to the Rain" (from Joan Baez in Concert) |
90 | — | 26 | Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 | |||||
| 1965 | "There But for Fortune" b/w "Daddy You Been on My Mind" (from Farewell, Angelina) |
50 | 16 | 8 | 5 | ||||
| "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" b/w "Daddy You Been on My Mind" |
— | — | 22 | Farewell, Angelina | |||||
| "Farewell, Angelina" b/w "Queen of Hearts" (from 4 in Stereo) |
— | — | 35 | ||||||
| 1966 | "Pack Up Your Sorrows" b/w "The Swallow Song" |
— | — | 50 | Non-album tracks | ||||
| "The Little Drummer Boy" b/w "Cantique De Noel" |
— | — | — | Noel | |||||
| 1967 | "Be Not Too Hard" b/w "North" |
— | — | — | Joan | ||||
| 1969 | "If I Knew" b/w "Rock Salt and Nails" |
— | — | — | David's Album | ||||
| "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" b/w "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" |
86 | — | — | Any Day Now | |||||
| 1970 | "No Expectations" b/w "One Day at a Time" |
— | — | — | One Day at a Time | ||||
| 1971 | "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" b/w "When Time Is Stolen" |
3 | 1 | 6 |
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Blessed Are... | |||
| "Here's to You" b/w "The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti – Part 2" |
— | — | — | Sacco e Vanzetti | |||||
| "Let It Be" b/w "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" (from David's Album) |
49 | 5 | — | Blessed Are... | |||||
| "Rejoice in the Sun" b/w "Silent Running" |
— | — | — | Silent Running Soundtrack | |||||
| 1972 | "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" b/w "Precious Lord Take My Hand" / "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" |
— | — | — | David's Album | ||||
| "Song of Bangladesh" b/w "Prison Trilogy" |
— | — | — | Come from the Shadows | |||||
| "In the Quiet Morning" b/w "To Bobby" |
69 | 22 | — | ||||||
| "Tumbleweed" b/w "Love Song to a Stranger" |
— | — | — | ||||||
| 1973 | "Best of Friends" b/w "Mary Call" |
— | — | — | Where Are You Now, My Son? | ||||
| "Less Than the Song" b/w "Windrose" |
— | — | — | ||||||
| 1974 | "Forever Young" b/w "Guantanamera" (from Gracias a La Vida) |
— | 13 | — | Non-album track | ||||
| 1975 | "Blue Sky" b/w "Dida" (from Gracias a La Vida) |
57 | 46 | — | Diamonds & Rust | ||||
| "Diamonds and Rust" b/w "Winds of the Old Days" |
35 | 5 | — | ||||||
| 1976 | "Please Come to Boston" b/w "Love Song to a Stranger" -- Part 2 |
— | — | — | From Every Stage | ||||
| "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" b/w "Children and All That Jazz" |
— | — | — | Diamonds & Rust | |||||
| "Caruso" b/w "Time Is Passing Us By" |
— | — | — | Gulf Winds | |||||
| 1977 | "I'm Blowin' Away" b/w "Altar Boy and the Thief" |
— | — | — | Blowin' Away | ||||
| "Time Rag" b/w "Miracles" |
— | — | — | ||||||
| "O Brother!" b/w "Still Waters at Night" |
— | — | — | Gulf Winds | |||||
| 1979 | "Light a Light" b/w "Michael" |
— | — | — | Honest Lullaby | ||||
| 1992 | "Stones in the Road" b/w "Play Me Backwards" & "Edge of Glory" |
— | — | — | Play Me Backwards | ||||
| 1997 | "No Mermaid" b/w "Diamonds and Rust" (from Ring Them Bells) |
— | — | — | Gone from Danger | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
EPs
- Silver Dagger & Other Songs, Fontana (1961) UK
- With God on Our Side, Fontana (1963) UK
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Fontana (1963) UK
- Luv Is the Foundation w/ Rocker-T (2009) US
Video albums
- In Concert, Pioneer (VHS, Laserdisc 1990)
- Live at Sing Sing, NY 1972 (w/ B.B. King), (DVD 2004)
- Three Voices: Live in Concert (1988 concert w/ Konstantin Wecker & Mercedes Sosa), (DVD 2004)
- How Sweet the Sound, American Masters/Razor & Tie (DVD 2009)
- Golden Hits: Live Collection, Blueline (DVD 2013)
- Oh Freedom: Live in London, Hudson Street (DVD 2014)
- 75th Birthday Celebration, Razor & Tie (DVD 2016)
Contributions
- Hard Rain by Bob Dylan (1976) - guitar, background vocals
- 4 Songs From Renaldo and Clara EP by Bob Dylan (1978) - vocals on "Never Let Me Go"
- The Butterfly Tree by Julia Butterfly Hill, Joan Baez, Joy Carlin, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra & Kent Nagano (2002) - vocals
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue (2002) - vocals, acoustic guitar & percussion on 4 songs
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall (2004) - vocals on 4 songs
- Corazón libre by Mercedes Sosa (2005) - cover art
- Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins (2008) - "Since You've Asked"
- Journey to the New World by Sharon Isbin, Joan Baez & Mark O'Connor (2009) - "Joan Baez Suite Op. 144" & "Go 'Way from My Window"
- Tune In, Turn Up, Sing Out by San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (2009) - "Swingin with the Saints" & "Imagine"
- Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (2019) - vocals, acoustic guitar & percussion on 12 songs
- Als teus ulls by Mario Muñoz feat. Lluís Llach, Gemma Humet & Joan Baez (2019) - single [17]
- No Kings by Jesse Welles (2025) - vocals [18]