Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time

Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time is the eighth studio album of poetry spoken and sung by American singer-songwriter Joan Baez, released in 1968. Composer-conductor Peter Schickele (of P. D. Q. Bach fame) did the orchestration, as he had on Baez's previous albums Noël (1966) and Joan (1967).

The album was released during a time when many folk, pop and rock artists were experimenting with mixing their music with classical orchestration (e.g. The Beatles, Judy Collins, The Rolling Stones.)

Side 1

 * 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" (J.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)
 * "Oh, Little Child" (Henry Treece)
 * 1) "No Man Is an Island" (John Donne)

Side 2

 * 1) "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" (James Joyce)
 * 2) "All the Pretty Little Horses" (Traditional)
 * 3) "Childhood III" (Arthur Rimbaud, Louis Varese)
 * 4) "The Magic Wood" (Henry Treece)
 * 5) "Poems from the Japanese" (Kenneth Rexroth)
 * 6) "Colours" (Peter Levi, Robin Milner-Gulland, Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
 * 7) "All in green went my love riding" (E. E. Cummings)
 * 8) "Gacela of the Dark Death" (Federico García Lorca, Stephen Spender)
 * 9) "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" (Wilfred Owen)
 * 10) "Evil" (N. Cameron, Arthur Rimbaud)
 * 11) "Epitaph for a Poet" (Countee Cullen)
 * 12) "Mystic Numbers- 36"
 * 13) "When The Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven" (James Joyce)
 * 14) "The Angel" (William Blake)
 * 15) "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)

Personnel

 * Joan Baez – vocals, guitar
 * Peter Schickele - composer, conductor