Artist Lounge: Joan Baez
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This is a Bob Dylan song. Bob himself has never recorded it. Joan appropriated it while it was still a work in progress circa 1965. She tells the story that when Bob heard her version on the radio he commented, "Hey that's a great song", apparently having completely forgotten that it was he himself who had written it. A plea - somewhere in the deepest recesses of 400 unsorted and uncatalogued tape cassettes, I have a version of Joan singing this, and when she ge... MORE
How could I possibly explain it so that you would understand this ... this.. longing? My time in the service left me with more then a closet full of shiny shoes. It gave me a sense of enormity and a very tactile understanding about man and our place in nature. This calling is another one of those demons I spoke of in an earlier post but, unlike my other demons, this one is my favorite. No other demon has colored my daily life more then my want to get back on the ocea... MORE
Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she doesn't know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as she planned. In a letter to The Washington Post published Wednesday, she said rocker John Mellencamp had asked her to perform with him last Friday and that she accepted his invitation. "I have always been an advocate for nonviolence and I have stood as firmly against the Iraq war as I did the Vietnam... MORE







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