Joan Baez in general

Joan Baez is an American singer born in 1941. She is known for both her lyrics, her great voice, and her political campaigns. She was one of the most vocal and active artists against the Vietnam war in the USA. Many people associate her to Bob Dylan, with whom she shared many campaigns, and also a bit of personal live. Although most of her songs are labelled as folk songs, she played gospel, rock and pop songs as well. Not only she played and sang her own song, but also songs of other singers, and here the list is long, but surely we should remember the names of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and the Rolling Stones. Her voice is ...

Joan Baez has been part of my consciousness for my most of my life. Her music and her bell-clear voice catalogue many of the events and history of the time since the 60s when she, with Bob Dylan and many others, set the music to match the changing times (no pun intended). It's not just the more well-known songs, for example she sings (without words) a Villa-Lobos composition - Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 Aria - in a way that reminds you that the voice was the first instrument and, when used by an artist such as Baez, is the truest and most flexible. Around four years ago I saw & heard her singing in Chichester Cathedral during the festivities. What an astounding and ...