Joan Baez - 50 years in music
Last week, I went to see Joan Baez at the Royal Albert Hall, celebrating her 50th year in music with her Day After Tomorrow tour. It was great to see this legendary figure live, singing some new songs and also a range of ballads and protest songs from her long career. She will always be associated with protest and the spirit of ‘68 and it seemed right to be at her London concert on the 40th anniversary of that momentous year.
This video is from 2005 and although this was not one of the songs she sang last week, I think it is one that sums up what much of her life and music has been about.
Enjoy…
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October 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Keep the faith and keep on rockin’, sister! :D
October 12th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I see Joan Baez has still got a good singing voice, I have an LP
and a double LP of hers from the old days, I particularly like her rendition of “Imagine” and one other song on some sort of campaign theme which title I forget. Maybe in Spanish. And the guitar strumming was terrific.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Did you know she came to Malaysia for a concert in the early 80s? It was a charity performance for Cambodia and was held at the lecture hall at Universiti Malaya. What a voice.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
No, Chet, I didn’t know that Joanie was in Malaysia in the 80s. Cool.
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 am
She still had her long hair then, and was covered from neck to feet, and said she was told to be dressed that way, then indicated to someone in the front row, telling him not to laugh as he was the one who told her! I think that was the Minister of Home Affairs at the time.
After the concert, many people waited for her to come out, including me, and I got to tell her how much I like her music for many years (since Woodstock).
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Chet, bet she also sang “Imagine”of John Lennon fame and eponymous title of an album of hers issued in around the late 1970s as I seem to recall, some of her best numbers were before Woodstock and not very long thereafter IMO, seemingly always espousing the cause of the underdog, the less-privileged and the “revolution”. Songs often sad including love songs about unrequited or unfulfilled love for one and much like the case of “The Flying Dutchman” that those of you who’re into Wagner would know, for another. Also sang in Spanish, I think her mother is Hispanic.