Joan Baez - Symbol of Her Generation
I remember the first time I heard a Joan Baez album. My new friend introduced me to her to music. I ran right out and bought the album and learned all the songs on it. I was an instant fan.
"There aren't many in showbiz like Joan Baez. Forty years ago she was the dorky folk singer with the pure voice and the severe expression who, through sheer force of sincerity, won out as the symbol of her generation over hipper rivals. By her own admission she has only had two real hits, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Diamonds and Rust, but the music was always less important to her than the message and the message less important than something else, something rather vague, which in the 1960s she would probably have called love."
~~from official website
Emma Brockes interviews Joan Baez
Tuesday January 24, 2006
The Guardian
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"Baez, at 65, is radiant. She didn't sell out; she didn't crack up. She switched from dairy to soya and went into therapy, but otherwise changed little during 40 years of fame. She didn't even lose her sense of humour, as so many activists do, in fact she has grown a lot more relaxed in the years since the 60s "
~~from official website
Emma Brockes interviews Joan Baez
Tuesday January 24, 2006
The Guardian
Day After Tomorrow
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On Day After Tomorrow, Joan Baez continues to find and interpret some of the finest contemporary songs of social injustice and spiritual salvation, often showcasing the work of others, much as she did Bob Dylan.The employment of acoustic instruments and simple production values make a record that returns Baez in spirit and message to her great albums of the '60s.
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Joan Baez Forever Young Video
"For those children of the 60s to whom the full-on counter-culture seemed daunting, Baez provided an accessible model of rebellion - concerned citizenship without the face paint. She was only 18 when she walked out on stage at the Newport Folk Festival in 1959, but had a stillness about her which the unstill found mesmerising. She looks back now and laughs; but she has to admit, she had a lot of style."
~~from official website
Emma Brockes interviews Joan Baez
Tuesday January 24, 2006
The Guardian
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Folk, Singer-Songwriter,
"I had nothing much to do with the writing of (the good songs), the words just crawled down my sleeve & came out on the page."
Diamonds & Rust Video
Diamonds & Rust From YouTube
Diamonds and Rust Lyrics
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Well I'll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall
As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin's eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
Ten years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust
Well you burst on the scene
Already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes the girl on the half-shell
Would keep you unharmed
Now I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
And snow in your hair
Now you're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel
Over Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there
Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
Because I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid.
Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez
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- Joan Baez joins tree-sitting bid to save LA garden - Yahoo! News
- Folk singer Joan Baez sang "We Shall Overcome" from a tree-top perch in Los Angeles on
Wednesday in a bid to save a community garden from demolition.
Joan Baez Quotes
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Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. Baez and Dylan were among the best-known of the folksingers to come to prominence in the 1960s. Baez was also active in the peace movement and in civil rights.
Joan Baez (January 9, 1941 - )
Joan Baez, American folksinger, is of Mexican, Scottish, and English descent. Many of her songs have a political message, and she has been an activist for peace and human rights.
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them.
The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
To love means you also trust.
How Many Joan Baez Albums Do You Own?
Complete A&M Recordings By Joan Baez
1972 -- 1976
Complete A&M Recordings
This A&M compilation puts together Baez's A&M LPs on 4 CDs, remastered and unabridged. The collection includes both studio and live material, which is why some songs appear more than once in the set.
Joan Baez Song Lyrics
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Wikipedia - The story within the song, as told by Virgil Cain, a non-combatant railroad worker witnessing the effect of the scorched-earth policies of the American Civil War from the perspective of a beleagured Southerner.
- Farewell Angelina
- The album represented a further shift from the strictly traditional folk music with which Baez began her career
- Diamonds & Rust
- Diamonds & Rust is a 1975 album by Joan Baez. Though Baez is more often regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, Diamonds & Rust contained a number of her own compositions, including the title track, a song about her relationship with Bob Dylan.
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Joan Baez Concerts
Joan Baez on YouTube
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| Track | Artist | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| House of the Rising Sun | Joan Baez | Joan Baez | |
| Diamonds and Rust | Joan Baez | Joan Baez: Greatest Hits | |
| The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Live) | Joan Baez | Joan Baez: The Complete A&M Recordings | |
| Forever Young (Single Version) | Joan Baez | Joan Baez: The Complete A&M Recordings | |
| All My Trials | Joan Baez | Joan Baez | |
| Please Come to Boston | Joan Baez | Joan Baez: Greatest Hits | |
| Jesse | Joan Baez | Joan Baez: Greatest Hits | |
| Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer | Joan Baez | Joan Baez: Greatest Hits |
What Do You Think Of Joan Baez?
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lestroischenes Feb 23, 2012 @ 7:01 am | delete
- Just been listening to a Joan Baez interview on BBC Radio 4 broadcast 21st Feb 2012. Fascinating.
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cmadden
Jan 28, 2012 @ 3:27 am | delete
- Joan Baez is my favorite, one of the purest voices ever.
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jmsp206 Jan 10, 2012 @ 2:24 am | delete
- One of my favorite female folk singers. Great songs with great lyrics and a voice to match.Stunning women.
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LindaJM Jan 10, 2012 @ 1:25 am | delete
- Beautiful music . . . thank you!
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wordstock Jan 9, 2012 @ 10:29 pm | delete
- Not one of my favorites but she is one of my husband's. He has several of her albums, Nice lens and great tribute. Now I have to turn the computer over to him so he can listen to all the videos you posted.
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