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Symbol of Her Generation
There aren't many in showbiz like 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. 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.
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.
Emma Brockes interviews Joan Baez
Tuesday January 24, 2006
The Guardian
Contents at a Glance
What You'll Find Here
- Joan Baez Links
- Diamonds & Rust
- Diamonds and Rust
- Baez Stuff on CafePress
- With Dylan
- Baez in the News
- Joan Baez Quotes
- 2008 Presidential Election
- Support Barack Obama
- Joan Baez Song Lyrics
- Joan Baez CD's
- Joan Baez Concerts
- Joan Baez on YouTube
- Please post your thoughts, comments and stories here!
- Other Artists I Like
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Joan Baez Links
- The Joan Baez Web Pages
- Official website for Joan Baez, biography, awards, and more.
- About Joan Baez
- Information on Joan Baez - her life and work.
- Vanguard Records - Joan Baez - Live at Newport
- Joan Baez at Newport
Joan Baez has long been part of our social and musical fabric, entertaining and inspiring us with her voice, her humor, and her courage. During the 1960s, Joan became one of the most visible of cultural figures, as both a music - Baez Fans
- BaezFans Yahoo Group
- Joan Baez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Joan Baez From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joan Baez Background information
Folk, Singer-Songwriter,
Diamonds & Rust
Diamonds and Rust
- 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
Baez Stuff on CafePress
Baez in the News
- The Joan Baez Web Pages
- Joan Baez news
- 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
- 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.
2008 Presidential Election
On February 3, 2008, Baez wrote a letter to the editor at the San Francisco Chronicle endorsing Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. She noted that "Through all those years, I chose not to engage in party politics ... At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do. If anyone can navigate the contaminated waters of Washington, lift up the poor, and appeal to the rich to share their wealth, it is Sen. Barack Obama."
Support Barack Obama
- Barack Obama
- My Lens about Barack Obama
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.
Joan Baez CD's
Joan Baez Concerts
Joan Baez on YouTube
Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust - Live, 1975
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
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Evelyn_Saenz
Please come check out www.squidoo.com/peteseeger, another great folk singer. Posted October 27, 2007 |
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Evelyn_Saenz
Joan Baez is my idol with her wonderful voice, meaningful songs and peace activism. Great lens. Posted October 25, 2007 |
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giddygabby
Baez is one of those artists you must hear live to appreciate fully. She is magnificent. She tells whole novels in the few chords and lines of a song. Welcome to Boomers Rock!, Pat. Lovely lens. Posted March 07, 2007 |
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