Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square

Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square is a collaborative folk album featuring Joan Baez, Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos; it is also Baez's debut appearance as six of the eighteen tracks were solos by her. The album was recorded by Stephen Fassett in "a friend's basement studio" in Boston, May 1959.

Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square
Studio album by
Joan Baez, Bill Wood, Ted Alevizos
Released1959
RecordedBoston, May 1959
GenreFolk, Negro spiritual, Greek traditional music
Length46:37
LanguageEnglish, French, Greek
LabelVeritas
ProducerLemuel Marshall Wells
Joan Baez chronology
Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square
(1959)		 Joan Baez
(1960)

In 1963, an unauthorized reissue of the album was released on Squire Records as The Best of Joan Baez (minus four tracks that did not contain Baez' vocals — "Le Cheval dans la baignoire," "The Bold Soldier," "Lass from the Low Country" and "Rejected Lover"), but was withdrawn after Baez took legal action against it (by which time the album had already made the top-fifty on the U.S. albums charts).

Harvard Square is a place in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Baez had a residence at Club 47, located on the square.

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