In June 1968, “Vanguard” label released “Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time”, the ninth Joan Baez album. It was recorded in 1968, at “Vanguard Studios” in New York, and was produced by Maynard Solomon. The album featured poetry spoken and sung by Joan Baez.

Personnel:

• Joan Baez – vocals, guitar
• Peter Schickele – conductor
• Ed Friedner – recording
• Jack Lothrop – engineer
• Robert Peak – artwork
• Jules Halfant – design

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 – 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. Cummings
19. Gacela of the Dark Deat – Federico García Lorca, Stephen Spender
20. The Parable of the Old Man and the Young – Wilfred Owen
21. Evil – 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