On her fifteenth studio album Joan Baez tries to send a message of courage and hope to the people of Chile, in the wake of the death of Salvador Allende. It came out in 1974, they were suffering under the yoke of dictator Pinochet. The album was her most successful to date, and, not completely surprisingly, mainly in Latin-America.
For me this album was a bit of a surprise. I didn’t know Baez as a Latin singer, and I came across this rather late. I thought I knew most of what she had done, but this Spanish (and Catalan) intermission was a welcome change.