After flubbing some words to her biggest hit, a 1971 cover of the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," Joan Baez wondered if she was getting enough gingko extract to keep her brain young. But ...
Without Joan Baez, its hard to say what the intersection of American music and social justice would look like, if it had ended up looking like anything at all. Music, of course, is not inherently ...
In this lesson, we are exploring the guitar style of one of the most celebrated ‘protest singers’ of America in the 1960s and beyond. A legend of the folk genre, Joan Baez was born in New York in 1941 ...
It was no surprise, given her activist history, that the first three words from Joan Baez Monday night at the Michigan Theater were political. The '60s folk icon looked out over the sold-out house, ...
Pakistan, April 27 -- The end of the Vietnam War marked a key moment for protest music, which had grown throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Artists like Judy Collins, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan led the ...
From the outset of her career a half-century ago, Joan Baez has possessed a distinctive, spine-tingling three-octave voice. A vessel of purity and a tower of strength, her soprano helped spark the ...
Joan Baez is many things: singer, civil rights activist, mother, dog lover. But hate it or love it, the 82-year-old icon is also inextricably linked to Bob Dylan, with whom she had a passionate ...