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Joan Baez - Ghetto [HD]+

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez sings 'Ghetto' from her 1969 Vanguard album 'One Day At A Time'. This song was written by  Homer Banks, Bonnie Bramlett and Bettye Crutcher. Homer Banks was an African-American singer-songwriter who wrote many soul classics and Bonnie Bramlett was half of the singing duo Delaney & Bonnie.

Clearly, the song should be taken in the context of the time it was written and sung - almost half a century ago. But it seems to me to have some relevance to problems that still exist.

The musicians on this album are Joan Baez – vocals, guitar, Pete Drake – pedal steel guitar, Roy Huskey, Jr. – bass guitar, Tommy Jackson – fiddle, Jerry Shook – guitar, Jerry Reed – guitar, Harold Bradley – guitar, Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano, Harold Rugg – steel guitar, dobro, Grady Martin – guitar, dobro, sitar, Buddy Spicher – fiddle, Norbert Putnam – bass guitar, Kenny Buttrey – drums, David Briggs – piano, harpsichord, Richard Festinger – guitar, Charlie McCoy – harmonica, vibraphone, organ, Henry Strzelecki – bass guitar, Pete Wade – guitar.

This is a revision (with change to the start and end of the video) of the earlier video for this song which had a comment concerning the audio quality. This update uses the WAV (lossless) rip of the digital recording of the vinyl record so this should be the best possible sound to be gotten from the vinyl. The digital recording of the vinyl to a CD is lossless (commercial CD format). I generally rip that using WMA at 192 Kbps. For this song the lossless WAV format was used. There's no way to control what the Movie Maker program or YouTube upload does to the audio - though if anyone knows how to get a better audio result from those steps in the process, please comment.

The song lyrics are in the video and listed below.

[Vinyl/Lyrics/40-Images/WAV]


Ghetto  (Singer - Joan Baez)

If you ever lived in a ghetto
Maybe at the close of your day
On your front porch you hear
The sound of a jukebox
From a neighborhood cafe

Well at noon you may hear the neighbors fussin'
When a kid breaks a windowpane
In the night, in the night you may be wakened
By the sound of the outbound, outbound train

The rich folks they own the big city
And they down us for living the way we do
But when you're born the child of a poor man
You know the ghetto is the only place for you

Well if there's such a thing as revolution
And there will be if we rise to the call
When we build, we build, we build, we build the new Jerusalem
There won't be no more ghetto, ghetto at all
No, there won't be no more ghetto, ghetto at all

Songwriters:  Homer Banks, Bonnie Bramlett, Bettye Crutcher

© EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

[Lyrics adapted from LyricFind]

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