JOAN BAEZ
G'day folks,
Today I feature a very prominent singer from the 60's - JOAN BAEZ. Joan was born in Staten Island, New York.
Her father was a physicist, born in Mexico, and her mother of Scottish and
English descent. She grew up in New York and California, and when her father
took a faculty position in Massachusetts, she attended Boston University and
began to sing in coffeehouses and small clubs. Bob Gibson invited her to attend
the 1959 Newport Folk Festival where she was a hit.
Vanguard Records signed Baez and in 1960 her first album, Joan Baez, came out. Baez was known for her soprano voice, her haunting songs, and, until she cut it in 1968, her long black hair. Early in her career she performed with Bob Dylan, and they toured together in the 1970s.
Subjected to racial slurs and discrimination in her own childhood because of her Mexican heritage and features, Joan Baez became involved with a variety of social causes early in her career, including civil rights and nonviolence. She was sometimes jailed for her protests. Joan Baez married David Harris, a Vietnam draft protestor, in 1968, and he was in jail for most of the years of their marriage. They divorced in 1973, after having one child, Gabriel Earl.
Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
during the Civil Rights March on
Washington DC, 1963.
Early in her career, Joan Baez stressed historical folk
songs, adding political songs to her repertoire during the 1960s. Later, she
added country songs and more mainstream popular music, though always including
many songs with political messages. She supported such organizations as Amnesty
International and Humanitas International. Joan Baez continues to speak and
sing for peaceful solutions to violence in the Middle East and Latin America.
GREAT
QUOTES:
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.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?
DISCOGRAPHY:
- 1960: Joan Baez Vol. 1 (remastered 2001)
- 1961: Joan Baez Vol. 2 (remastered 2001)
- 1964: Joan Baez 5 - 2002 version with bonus tracks
- 1965: Farewell, Angelina
- 1967: Joan
- 1969: Any Day Now: Songs of Bob Dylan
- 1969: David's Album
- 1970: The First Ten Years
- 1971: Carry It On
- 1972: Blessed Are...
- 1972: Come From the Shadows
- 1974: Gracias a la Vida (Here's to Life)
- 1975: Diamonds and Rust
- 1976: The Lovesong Album
- 1977: Best of Joan Baez
- 1979: Honest Lullaby
- 1979: The Joan Baez Country Music Album
- 1982: Very Early Joan Baez
- 1984: Ballad Book Vol. 1
- 1984: Ballad Book Vol. 2
- 1987: Recently
- 1990: Blowin' Away
- 1991: Brothers in Arms
- 1992: No Woman No Cry
- 1992: Play Me Backwards
- 1993: From Every Stage
- 1993: Rare, Live and Classic (box)
- 1995: Ring Them Bells (winter holiday and Christmas)
- 1996: Greatest Hits (remastered)
- 1996: Speaking of Dreams
- 1997: Gone From Danger
- 1998: Baez Sings Dylan
- 1999: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
- 1960: Joan Baez Vol. 1 (remastered 2001)
- 1961: Joan Baez Vol. 2 (remastered 2001)
- 1964: Joan Baez 5 - 2002 version with bonus tracks
- 2003: Dark Chords on a Big Guitar
- 2005: Bowery Songs
- 2007: Ring Them Bells (reissue with bonus tracks)
- 2008: Day After Tomorrow
Clancy's comment: Joan is still touring the world, and I can hear her haunting voice as if it was yesterday. What a great worker for the peace movement and civil rights. Go, Joan!
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