Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square
{{Infobox album
| name = Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square
| type = studio
| artist = Joan Baez, Bill Wood, Ted Alevizos
| cover = JBaez_HarvardSquare.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1959
| recorded = Boston, May 1959
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Folk, Negro spiritual, Greek traditional music
| length =46:37
| label = Veritas
| producer = Lemuel Marshall Wells
| chronology = Joan Baez
|language=English, French, Greek
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Joan Baez
| next_year = 1960
}}
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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlwkEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Folksingers+%27Round+Harvard+Square%22+%221959%22+studio&pg=PA65|title=Woodstock FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Fabled Garden|first=Thomas E.|last=Harkins|date=August 15, 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781493050802 |via=Google Books}}
In 1963, an unauthorized reissue of the album was released on Squire Records as The Best of Joan Baez{{discogs master|293399|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vocals — "Le Cheval dans la baignoire," "The Bold Soldier," "Lass from the Low Country" and "Rejected Lover"), but was withdrawn after Baez took legal action against it (by which time the album had already made the top-fifty on the U.S. albums charts).{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/master/293399-Joan-Baez-Bill-Wood-5-Ted-Alevizos-Folksingers-Round-Harvard-Square|title=Joan Baez, Bill Wood, Ted Alevizos - Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square|via=www.discogs.com}}
Harvard Square is a place in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Baez had a residence at Club 47, located on the square.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiwJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22round+Harvard+Square%22+cambridge|title=Rock: A Canadian Perspective|first1=Larry|last1=Starr|first2=Christopher Alan|last2=Waterman|first3=Jay|last3=Hodgson|date=August 30, 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-542761-5 |via=Google Books}}
Track listing
{{tracklist
| headline = Side one
| all_writing =Folksong or Traditional, except where noted
| extra_column = Performers
| title1 = On the Banks of the Ohio
| extra1 = Baez
| length1 = 2:40
| title2 = O What a Beautiful City
| extra2 = Baez
|note2=Spiritual
| length2 = 3:21
| title3 = Sail Away Ladies
| extra3 = Baez
| length3 = 2:49
| title4 = Black Is the Color
| extra4 = Baez
| length4 = 2:42
| title5 =Lowlands
| extra5 = Baez
| length5 = 2:48
| title6 = What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby
| note6 = Spiritual
| extra6 = Baez
| length6 = 2:30
| title7 = Kitty
| note7 = South African Folksong
| extra7 = Baez & Wood
| length7 = 2:01
| title8 = So Soon in the Morning
| note8 = Spiritual
| extra8 = Baez & Wood
| length8 = 2:08
| title9 = Careless Love
| note9 = Spiritual
| extra9 = Baez & Wood
| length9 = 2:27
| total_length = 23:26
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Side two
| extra_column = Performers
| title1 =Le Cheval dans la baignoire (The Horse in the Bathtub)
| extra1 = Wood
|note1=Stephen Coleman
| length1 = 2:08
| title2 = John Henry
| extra2 = Wood
| length2 = 3:17
| title3 = Travellin' Shoes
| extra3 = Wood
| length3 = 2:13
| title4 =The Bold Soldier
| extra4 = Wood
| length4 = 1:53
| title5 =Walie Walie
|note5=Appalachian Folksong
| extra5 = Alevizos
| length5 = 2:02
| title6 = Rejected Lover
| note6 = Spiritual
| extra6 = Alevizos
| length6 = 3:28
| title7 = Astrapsen–The Sun Is Risen
| note7 =Traditional Greek
| extra7 = Alevizos
| length7 = 1:46
| title8 =Lass from the Low Country
| note8 = North Carolina Folksong
| extra8 = Alevizos
| length8 = 3:11
| title9 =Don't Weep After Me
| note9 = Trad. West Indian Folksong
| extra9 = Baez–Wood–Alevizos
| length9 = 2:49
| total_length = 23:11
}}
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