Any fans here? Obviously, there's the Dylan connection, but a terrific artist she is. Beautiful, crystal-clear vocals. She's rather unique, I think. Here's one of my favourite performances to feature her on You Tube :-

yeah, we like joan. funny this thread up by Dylan @ same time. Always got a kick out of 60s interview in a limo featuring Dylan w/joan in tow, believe in England. joan was chowing on her morning donut and interviewer moseyed over to ask her name. joan, she said. joan what he asked. Baez, she said. The guy about shit himself, oh, oh, i'm so sorry, I didn't recognize you....Joan just smiled & continued on her donut.

This scene from Dylan's Don't Look Back film was my introduction to the wondrous Baez. Did she record a version of this Dylan original? If she didn't, she certainly should have. Marvelous.

Love the original by The Band, but I always liked her version of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, which she took to the top 10 (#3 U.S.; #6 UK) in 1971 and which was played on the radio for many years afterward.

Fan here!

Always buying records coming from her, and since later also Emmylou...(two Dylan-chatterboxes)

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Diamonds and Rust is my favourite. That 1st verse is such a beautiful piece of poetry. Love her voice, a great artist indeed.

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Diamonds and Rust is my favourite. That 1st verse is such a beautiful piece of poetry. Love her voice, a great artist indeed.

yes, yes, I couldn't remember the name! the best! Heard Judy Collins (Baez' friend) do it on a PBS special last year.

"My poetry was lousy you said"...


It is is nice how Bobby describes the impression Joan did to him in the early days, listening her records and seeing her in television:

The sight of her made me high. All that and then there was her voice. A voice that drove out bad spirits. It was like she'd come down from another planet... Both Scot and Mex, she looked like a religious icon. Like somebody you'd sacrifice yourself for and she sang in a voice straight to God.... also was an expectionally good instrumentalist... There was no one in her class. She was far off and unattainable - Cleopatra living in an Italian palace. When she sang, she made your teeth drop.

Bob Dylan, CHRONICLES, pp. 254-256.

- Doxa

Baez with Wendy Hanson(Brian Epstein's secretary) at back stage of the Beatles show at Candlestick Park in August 1966.

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Baez with Wendy Hanson(Brian Epstein's secretary) at back stage of the Beatles show at Candlestick Park in August 1966.

That's Dodger Stadium, but apparently she was at Candlestick, too.

Lovely voice...................





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Seriously, when I saw the Rolling Thunder Revue I thought she stole the show. And I wasn't a fan. Her version of "Diamonds and Rust" that day made the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

I've seen most artist perform and I've never been so in awe as with her. For me she is the same category of human beings as Mandela.

This is from Japanese TV program in early '80s. She was singing the sabi portion in Japanese.

For fans of hilariously awful Beatles covers ....

Joan Bias...
(sorry; I just couldn't resist it.)

Baez fans should avoid seeing her perform "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" from the film, "The Big TNT Show."


In the mid-70's I went to a rare screening of it at the New Vagabond Theatre and it was so screeching and awful that it evoked disbelieving gasps, until entire theatre gradually became filled with hysterical laughter...

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Joan Bias...
(sorry; I just couldn't resist it.)

Well said.

I couldn't abide some of her political views but you cannot argue her talents.
A 60s icon, really, I don't think she was meant for any other era. A lovely voice, like Joni Mitchell's.

This is my favorite by Joan Baez

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Baez fans should avoid seeing her perform "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" from the film, "The Big TNT Show."


In the mid-70's I went to a rare screening of it at the New Vagabond Theatre and it was so screeching and awful that it evoked disbelieving gasps, until entire theatre gradually became filled with hysterical laughter...

So, of course, I had to go looking for it. Here it is. It begins at 37:45 and yes, it's perfectly absurd.






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Here's one for the Led Zeppelin fans.

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"My poetry was lousy you said"...


It is is nice how Bobby describes the impression Joan did to him in the early days, listening her records and seeing her in television:

The sight of her made me high. All that and then there was her voice. A voice that drove out bad spirits. It was like she'd come down from another planet... Both Scot and Mex, she looked like a religious icon. Like somebody you'd sacrifice yourself for and she sang in a voice straight to God.... also was an expectionally good instrumentalist... There was no one in her class. She was far off and unattainable - Cleopatra living in an Italian palace. When she sang, she made your teeth drop.

Bob Dylan, CHRONICLES, pp. 254-256.

- Doxa

"That girl looked like she could use a singing partner!"

I always loved this description of Joan by BD.

Later on in the sixties, when the media pestered BD about his relationship to JB and if he'd seen her lately, he confided: "Last time I saw her, she was rolling around on the floor, tripping on acid. She used to enjoy wiping herself with the American flag after doing it."

Yeah, Im a fan, too! Great woman, had a psychotherapy because of their agro-phobia, and she never takes drugs, thats impressively!

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I always loved this description of Joan by BD.

Later on in the sixties, when the media pestered BD about his relationship to JB and if he'd seen her lately, he confided: "Last time I saw her, she was rolling around on the floor, tripping on acid. She used to enjoy wiping herself with the American flag after doing it."

Not a real Dylan quote. It's from a fake interview someone wrote as satire decades ago. Maybe National Lampoon.

JOHN LENNON: "I never liked the fruity Judy Collins and Baez and all of that stuff. So the only folk music I know is about miners up in Newcastle, or Dylan." (Rolling Stone Magazine, 1970.)

Incidentally, in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, in the section where Jobs and Baez are dating, Jobs wasn't exactly a generous boyfriend despite his wealth (and Baez said that, despite what people thought, she wasn't rich herself).



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