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Torres
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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Toru A
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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RoughJusticeOnYa
Joan Bias...
(sorry; I just couldn't resist it.)
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loog droog
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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Doxa
"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
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Silver Dagger
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."