That's Not My Age's may own a couple of Bob Dylan albums but I'm not big into folk music. As a teenager growing-up in the seventies, I thought Joe Strummer invented the protest song! So, the BBC's Imagine programme on Joan Baez, 68, this week, was a real eye-opener. As well as the amazing voice and 50 year career, the queen of folk was an anti- Vietnam war campaigner, an ally of Dr Martin Luther King and a lover to Bob Dylan. I guess I'm a little young - and I don't get to say that very often - for all the early sixties stuff, but Joanie (as the Bobster calls Baez) is music royalty. Even Dylan admits, ' She had a very unusual way of playing the guitar, I tried to practise it, but couldn't get it down.'
If you missed this fantastic programme, watch it on BBC iPlayer.
Programmes are usually online for a week, so catch it before Tuesday.
Photo from www.joanbaez.com
4 comments:
Her song "Diamonds and Rust" was supposedly about Bob Dylan.
DP - oh yes, they did mention that in the programme & Mr Bob Dylan says it still affects him now.
I missed this too, but so many people have raved about it.Doesn't she look amazing in the photo too..so elegantly stylish. Think iplayer will be on this afternoon.
I grew up with Joan Baez, courtesy of my beatnik-inclined ma
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