(Review from allmusic)

One of the often overlooked aspects of Joan Baez’s career in the 1960s is that after the first four albums, she never did the same thing twice.

“One Day at a Time” was also startlingly new and daring at the time. Today it seems like no big deal, but in 1970 very few singers coming out of the folk scene as Baez did were reaching out to Willie Nelson (“One Day at a Time”) and even the Rolling Stones (“No Expectations”) for repertory, much less putting them on the same album with music by old leftist composers like Earl Robinson (“Joe Hill”), and then interspersing those songs with traditional country numbers. Even better, she was also writing her own songs, one of which, “Sweet Sir Galahad,” ranks among the best songs that she ever recorded.

She was in the middle of her country phase, mostly working with the best players in Nashville (who are a pleasure to hear as well), but One Day at a TIme has a freer, looser feel than David’s Album or Blessed Are, both of which came out of the same orbit.

Her version of “Long Black Veil” could’ve passed muster at The Grand Ol’ Opry, and she could’ve cut these sessions with Dolly Parton, June Carter Cash, or any other female country singer of the era and not been out of place. The sheer, understated power of her voice on Delaney & Bonnie’s “Ghetto” and on “Carry It On” is also something to behold, and makes one wonder what kind of a gospel singer Baez might have made in another reality. Yet she could also loosen up enough to do a pure piece of sentimental traditional country music like “Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South” and make it work, too.

Amid these multi-tiered, widely spaced superlatives, “One Day at a Time” also had (and still has) an additional facet that should make it essential listening on another level, to yet another audience — three of the cuts here feature her working with Jeffrey Shurtleff, who was her accompanist at the Woodstock festival as well.

This edition of the album contains two outtakes from the One Day at a Time sessions as bonus tracks: “Sing Me Back Home” and “Mama Tried”, both duets with Shurtleff, and both Merle Haggard covers.

Track List:
01. Sweet Sir Galahad – 3:42
02. No Expectations – 3:49
03. Long Black Veil – 3:24
04. Ghetto – 4:33
05. Carry It On – 2:21
06. Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South – 2:48
07. Seven Bridges Road – 3:41
08. Jolie Blonde – 2:01
09. Joe Hill – 3:24
10. A Song for David – 4:57
11. I Live One Day at a Time – 3:32
12. Sing Me Back Home (Bonus) – 4:00
13. Mama Tried (Bonus) – 3:08

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