When you talk about a seemingly insignificant moment between you and another person and say that you "could have died right then and there" (and presumably your life would have been filling), you're telling the world how deeply you felt about that person even though, based on them going in another direction, they didn't feel the same. That's so heart breaking. Ironically in her early career, Joan Baez had sung an old ballad called Lady Mary, which included the line, "I was nothing to you, but you were the world to me."
Just hearing that voice is a time capsule fir me. It was such a part of my life all through the 60’s…..that amazing voice…..seemingly always present during those turbulent years in the US. She sang Amazing Grace at Woodstock in ‘69. Just beautiful. One of her great musical gifts to us was her covering of Dylan songs, combining his amazing lyrics with her gorgeous voice. You really should listen to some of her early albums……just for yourselves at home. Fill the house with her soaring voice.
Baez was renowned for her clear, high soprano and her full vibrato. She sang from a teen….starting in coffee houses in the early 60’s. She was part of the early folk movement …..her first album….a collection of traditional folk songs, both American and British, came out in 1960. I had that album. I had her songbook, with the chord charts so that I could sing and play along. She was HUGE in the civil-rights movement, and later the anti-war movement in the US, lending her voice to many of demonstration. She supported Dylan in his early career, sharing the stage with him. Then he became famous and went his own way. She wanted him to be an activist too, and work with her for equal rights and against the war. Dylan did NOT want to be drafted into being the “troubadour for a generation”. He just wanted to do his music. In spite of his rejection of that title, it has stuck to him all these decades, and is still how he is viewed by those of us who lived through that time. Dylan and Baez have remained friends. Both now in their 80’s….Baez retired from touring a few years ago…..concentrating on her painting. She has done several paintings of Dylan, btw.
Joan was a treasure. My favorite song that she sang is The Night They Drove Old dixie Down. She didn't write it, but I love her version of that one. Thanks for sharing this.
From what I have read, she initially shared her stage with him. He gained more popularity and suddenly did his own thing without her and disappeared from her life without explanation. Beautiful song.
I honestly believe (because JB was gaining popularity) Bob used her to also gain more of was he was looking for! It’s known he sold his soul to the devil. It might sound stupid mentioned, but there is an interview where he said it, just like many others at the time!
@@Lizard-of-Oz That's right -- he DID say it -- and then years later, he became a "Christian" -- maybe so. But more and more have been coming out about who and what really runs our music industry (and everything else, through its monopoly on the money-making power), and P. Diddy is just the tip of the iceberg.
Joan had not heard from Bob for years ... and he called (from a phone booth in the midwest) to play his song "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts". A very touching song and a beautiful review.
You need to understand that in the early 60s, Joan was already an established figure in the folk music genre. When they met Dylan was the newbie trying to make it in the NYC coffee and club folk scene. Joan gave him a lot of guidance, they started playing together, and they fell in love. They were the central figures in the 1963 March on Washington, a historic Civil Rights racial justice event where they played. As Bob exploded on the folk scene, with Joan's help, influence and guidance, their relationship drifted a bit. Joan took the relationship more seriously than Bob did. By the mid 60s, they had moved on their separate paths. This song was written 10 years later. Bob contacted Joan about playing in his traveling band called Rolling Thunder Revue, and everything came flooding back for her. This song is Joan's description of her conflicted feelings left over from what she felt was an unfinished love affair. She clearly loved him, she agreed to go on the 1975 and 76 Rolling Thunder Revue Tours, which recreated that feeling of 1960s comradery, social activism etc. They sang duets of Bob's classic tunes like Blowin in the Wind etc and traveled from town to town like a circus troupe. Joan wrote this classic while on this tour, and actually performed it during her solo set. "Awkward". This tune became her signature tune and she played it probably at every concert to the end of her career. I saw Joan Baez 3 times and her voice remained clear and strong until the end, even into her 70s. She was a beautiful woman, she was a true social justice advocate her entire career, and she always carried herself with class, a very regal dignity. A huge icon for women especially.
I was fortunate enough to see Joan at the York Barbican (England) a few years ago. Just her, a guitar and microphone. Her voice has only got better in later years. Stunning, and this for me was a definite highlight of the concert
I just love you two. You're so real and insightful. Another great song by Joan is "Love is Just a Four Letter Word". It was actually written by Dylan. Keep up the great work.
You might check out her version of "The President Sang Amazing Grace" "It was inspired by the Charleston church shooting of 2015. The song recounts the moment when President Barack Obama broke into an impromptu performance of the hymn "Amazing Grace" while delivering the eulogy for Clementa C. Pinckney. Obama delivered the eulogy for Clementa C. Pinckney at the TD Arena of the College of Charleston on 26 June 2015.[2] Pinckney was one of the nine victims of the June 2015 shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. During his eulogy Obama recited the words of the hymn "Amazing Grace" before breaking down in tears and singing the hymn unprompted.[1] The song was written by the folk singer and songwriter Zoe Mulford. " wikipedia
Thanks for this beautiful song. Joan is a national treasure, who has for a long time been on the right side of history. You might be interested in Richard and Mimi Farina’s song “ Morgan the Pirate” about Dylan. Mimi was Joan’s younger sister, and the song is supposedly an answer to Dylan’s, Positively 4th Street. Joan is one of a kind.
I saw her live in 1986 at an Amnesty International concert - It was called the Conspiracy of Hope tour. I love this song. She does a very good cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
Joan Baez does some of the best Dylan covers, on the album "Any Day Now". Her a cappella version of "Tears of Rage" is amazing. I was just below the stage for her set at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. She sang "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" a cappella there. What a voice!
Joan covered so many of Bob Dylan's songs. One of the best, I think is "North Country Blues", it's one of his great storytelling songs, which he himself sang, but it's actually a woman speaking so an ideal vehicle for Joan, and very moving.
I'm always speechless at trying to explain everything I love about this song and so I don't even try... It's just too overwhelmingly beautiful. Another one of her's I think you'll really like is "Blessed Are".
I was living in my first apartment in '76 and got this LP via the Columbia House Record Club (remember that outfit ?). I knew a little about her - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, but not much more. I put this record on and listed to both sides then listened to it again. What a treasure it is. It's as fresh as if it was recorded yesterday. So glad to see younger people discovering this amazing singer.
Seldom sailed waters from her 1975 same-named album. And in the prior year, she delivered a masterpiece of an album GRACIAS A LA VIDA, songs in Spanish she grew up with. Seminal. And no one's paid attention to it for a couple of decades... what a shame. "Speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there." Poetry.
I wonder if you could tell us what native-language phrase would replace her opening line: "Well, I'll be damned-!" Half-shock (not pleasant) and half surprise (mostly pleasant, depending on the tone as spoken). Literally, this would be "Sometimes in the future, I can be cursed or damned but, for now - wow - I'm probably going to be happy."
By the way, Joan was mostly famous in lower Manhattan's Greenwich Village of the late '50s/early '60s. This was the transition from "Beatnik Culture" into a more national (USA/Canada) movement that was unleashed instead of being restricted to Just New York City. "Robert Zimmerman" arrived to that scene and Joan was one of his first - and probably his most famous 'fan'. She opened doors for him, introduced him to 'the right people', etc. I've always thought she started writing this song in 1963-1964 when Dylan was well past entering his own fame. And he didn't want to be restricted to just hers. AND she was famously married as well.
There's a great live-performance of this from the mid 70s. You may not know that she was a successful musician with a record contract and two albums already that had sold very well. He'd been around the folk scene and was well-regarded, but not yet at her professional level. When she brought him out to perform with her at the influential Newport folk festival, his career started to take off. (the new Timothy Chalomet movie covers this time period). When he toured England in 1965, she came with him (there are two very good documentaries covering this time period: DA Pennebaker's "Don't Look Back" (filmed on the tour) + Martin Scorcese's "No Direction Home,".which covers '61-'66. "Positively 4th Street" is the name of a good read about the relationshps Joan Baez was hurt that Dylan didn't invite her to share the stage in England and give her a boost there. He was already moving out of the folk scene and thought she'd hold him back. In the middle of the tour, Sara, the woman Dylan would marry, arrived in London and Joan didn't know about her! Joan flew back to the states and they didn't have direct contact for a few years. Messy.
Great reaction. On Christmas Day the biopic A Complete Unknown, will be released. It covers the early part of Bob Dylans career. His relationshjp witn Joan Baez is a key component.
아! 이 노래 오래간만에 듣네요. 덕분에 ^.*~ My favorite Bob Dylan & Joan Baez singers. I have this album(LP) THANKS for remember it again. Life is like that.. sometimes are diamonds and sometimes are rust... I often looking for your channel... I'm in SoHyang, Forestella's Country. thank you so much... 감사합니다. 대한민국에서 ^^
Bob Dylan was indeed a punk to Joan. He does owe her a debt of gratitude for recording his first songs and getting him noticed. This song was released in 1975 about Joan and Bob's relationship in 1962-1964 thus all the B&W photos of them together.
J.B. is kinda a mega musical talent. (She's playin the guitar ) this album - about the same time She was on a tour with Dylan 'rolling thunder'. maybe 15 years ago. PBS tv did a special on Her, including short clips singing in a coffee house in Boston, maybe 17. the entire package. ps. of Course Baez ' mind was always in the good, marching with M.L.King (putting her life on line ). anti 'Nam. etc. double ps - U.T. of course has a concert video. ' Joan Baez. diamond & rust live 1975......
Maybe the best love song ever, why is lost love the most intense ? Maybe because that intensity is impossible to maintain and when it fades you can't caryy on at a calmer level .
She IS calling him out. She's rejecting what he is offering: she already bought and paid for it (the hard way.) This is an incredible kind-of "diss" song as the younger generation puts it. He apparently did not treat her well at the end. But Wow! what a beautiful song came out of it.
if you ever want to check out more Joan, go to an album simply called "5" and pick a song...any song. for me, her defining album. there is this little tune from my obscure archive that i think might be right in your wheelhouse. it's called "The Ferryman" by Ralph McTell
Joan Baez(By as) actually gave Bob Dylan his first start in front of a large audience she was known better than he was at that time and there wasn't a good cause that she wouldn't give her time to she helped any way she could for the Common person
She was more famous than he was at the beginning. Then his star eclipsed her's, and he moved on from the relationship. It's a very complex song emotionally.
PS: When I wrote the above I was thinking I was writing on a Dire Straits reaction {like this duo usually do!). Obs. by Knopfler... a tongue-in-cheek fail. JB's voice suits the song of course. There's also a site where someone adds Knopfler guitar (a 'copy' of) to JB's voice but I think that's overkill and the JB versoipn stands as an alternative interpretation.
I feel so harrowingly how much he hurt her with his callous and mercenary use of her and his abandonment, in this song. And that she still loves him -- and how at the time, in 1975, he was only just beginning to really learn how to properly love her. She is violated and angry, but STILL so tender and loving toward him -- but still doesn't trust him either. It hurts so good, this song -- ouch.
To have spurned and hurt someone like Joan Baez you better reckon that she is going to turn that into a scathing and beautiful thing. She really had Dylan's number.
Beautiful song indeed - up until now, I had only heard the amazing live version of this some performed by Blackmore's Night (Richie Blackmore from Deep Purple's Celtic folk band along with the gorgeous voice of his wife, Candice Knight) and I have included the link to their video in case you might want to take a look ---- th-cam.com/video/D1aB4Be--Jc/w-d-xo.html
He couldn’t live up to her expectations …..that was a big part of it I think. She wanted him to join her in her activism, and he didn’t want to go that route
This song is so beautiful and heart felt by Joan! This is also her playing the guitar. She is a fabulous player.
She pegged him perfectly with "You who are so good with words and at keeping things vague."
Agree! She pegged him in so many ways in this iconic song. He likely deserved it. ☺
Aren't we all?
@johnperrigo6474
No, I don't think we are all "Bob Dylans".
I have chills and tears every time I hear this. Joan's voice is ethereal and takes you on a trip.
The most real love song ever written.
Joan herself is a musical legend and an iconic voice. Thanks for the great reaction. This song is truly an all time masterpiece.
When you talk about a seemingly insignificant moment between you and another person and say that you "could have died right then and there" (and presumably your life would have been filling), you're telling the world how deeply you felt about that person even though, based on them going in another direction, they didn't feel the same. That's so heart breaking. Ironically in her early career, Joan Baez had sung an old ballad called Lady Mary, which included the line, "I was nothing to you, but you were the world to me."
Just hearing that voice is a time capsule fir me. It was such a part of my life all through the 60’s…..that amazing voice…..seemingly always present during those turbulent years in the US. She sang Amazing Grace at Woodstock in ‘69. Just beautiful.
One of her great musical gifts to us was her covering of Dylan songs, combining his amazing lyrics with her gorgeous voice.
You really should listen to some of her early albums……just for yourselves at home. Fill the house with her soaring voice.
The Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
I played this album so much that I wore it out. She is a fabulous musician.
Joan was a true traditional folk singer of the Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger tradition.
This is haunting🤘❤️joan took bob under her wings and out of his shyness. If he had not known her, who knows where dylan would’ve ended up😊
Baez was renowned for her clear, high soprano and her full vibrato. She sang from a teen….starting in coffee houses in the early 60’s. She was part of the early folk movement …..her first album….a collection of traditional folk songs, both American and British, came out in 1960. I had that album. I had her songbook, with the chord charts so that I could sing and play along. She was HUGE in the civil-rights movement, and later the anti-war movement in the US, lending her voice to many of demonstration.
She supported Dylan in his early career, sharing the stage with him. Then he became famous and went his own way. She wanted him to be an activist too, and work with her for equal rights and against the war. Dylan did NOT want to be drafted into being the “troubadour for a generation”. He just wanted to do his music. In spite of his rejection of that title, it has stuck to him all these decades, and is still how he is viewed by those of us who lived through that time.
Dylan and Baez have remained friends. Both now in their 80’s….Baez retired from touring a few years ago…..concentrating on her painting. She has done several paintings of Dylan, btw.
Thank you for the info 🙂
Joan was a treasure. My favorite song that she sang is The Night They Drove Old dixie Down. She didn't write it, but I love her version of that one. Thanks for sharing this.
Always a hauntingly beautiful voice. Love this melancholy song and the lyrics. Thank you for your reaction!
My favorite Joan Baez song by far. The lyrics and her beautiful voice together are incredible.
From what I have read, she initially shared her stage with him. He gained more popularity and suddenly did his own thing without her and disappeared from her life without explanation. Beautiful song.
I honestly believe (because JB was gaining popularity) Bob used her to also gain more of was he was looking for!
It’s known he sold his soul to the devil. It might sound stupid mentioned, but there is an interview where he said it, just like many others at the time!
@@Lizard-of-Oz That's right -- he DID say it -- and then years later, he became a "Christian" -- maybe so. But more and more have been coming out about who and what really runs our music industry (and everything else, through its monopoly on the money-making power), and P. Diddy is just the tip of the iceberg.
@@Kairon111161yes! And everything it’s more, and more exposed, as if the industry doesn’t care or enjoy being cynical, almost saying “fuck it’
That's not literally accurate. Oversimplified.
Joan is an amazing artist and activist. Such a heart. And so few singers can match her - she's my favorite.
Joan said her voice was a gift. SHE HAD NO VOICE TRAINING
Joan had not heard from Bob for years ... and he called (from a phone booth in the midwest) to play his song "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts". A very touching song and a beautiful review.
Joan does a phenomenal job w Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts on her double live album, From Every Stage
I've always loved this Song ❤❤
You need to understand that in the early 60s, Joan was already an established figure in the folk music genre. When they met Dylan was the newbie trying to make it in the NYC coffee and club folk scene. Joan gave him a lot of guidance, they started playing together, and they fell in love. They were the central figures in the 1963 March on Washington, a historic Civil Rights racial justice event where they played. As Bob exploded on the folk scene, with Joan's help, influence and guidance, their relationship drifted a bit. Joan took the relationship more seriously than Bob did. By the mid 60s, they had moved on their separate paths.
This song was written 10 years later. Bob contacted Joan about playing in his traveling band called Rolling Thunder Revue, and everything came flooding back for her. This song is Joan's description of her conflicted feelings left over from what she felt was an unfinished love affair.
She clearly loved him, she agreed to go on the 1975 and 76 Rolling Thunder Revue Tours, which recreated that feeling of 1960s comradery, social activism etc. They sang duets of Bob's classic tunes like Blowin in the Wind etc and traveled from town to town like a circus troupe. Joan wrote this classic while on this tour, and actually performed it during her solo set. "Awkward".
This tune became her signature tune and she played it probably at every concert to the end of her career. I saw Joan Baez 3 times and her voice remained clear and strong until the end, even into her 70s. She was a beautiful woman, she was a true social justice advocate her entire career, and she always carried herself with class, a very regal dignity. A huge icon for women especially.
She is an angel
I absolutely adore this era Joan Baez. Prison Trilogy and Please Come To Boston are two of my favourites.
It's a love song obviously ,but it's a conversation too from Ms Baez to Bob Dylan ...from the bottom of her heart .
Yes, agreed 💚
I so love her beautiful voice.
What an amazing song. It falls out of my life for years and then comes back and it makes me so happy
I was fortunate enough to see Joan at the York Barbican (England) a few years ago. Just her, a guitar and microphone. Her voice has only got better in later years. Stunning, and this for me was a definite highlight of the concert
Everything about the song is amazing... the writing, the singing, the instrumentation! It's timeless.
i got to see Joan Baez in 1984 at the Celebraty Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. she was so good. such a beautiful voice. i always loved her.
Wow! I did not know about the song's connections. Thank you for sharing!
I just love you two. You're so real and insightful. Another great song by Joan is "Love is Just a Four Letter Word". It was actually written by Dylan. Keep up the great work.
My fave from Joan
I love this song so much thanks for this reaction
Andrei, you are such a lovely human, I wish more people could have a likely spirit! Thank you again for this beautiful reaction from your heart.
Thank you too! 😊
You might check out her version of "The President Sang Amazing Grace"
"It was inspired by the Charleston church shooting of 2015. The song recounts the moment when President Barack Obama broke into an impromptu performance of the hymn "Amazing Grace" while delivering the eulogy for Clementa C. Pinckney.
Obama delivered the eulogy for Clementa C. Pinckney at the TD Arena of the College of Charleston on 26 June 2015.[2] Pinckney was one of the nine victims of the June 2015 shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. During his eulogy Obama recited the words of the hymn "Amazing Grace" before breaking down in tears and singing the hymn unprompted.[1]
The song was written by the folk singer and songwriter Zoe Mulford. " wikipedia
Joans set at Woodstock is really good, "Joe Hill" especially.
This song is awesome!
This is one of my all time favourite songs. So glad you loved it. I loved your reaction ❤
The most ironic of haunting love songs. My favorite Baez song.
Thanks for this beautiful song. Joan is a national treasure,
who has for a long time been on the right side of history.
You might be interested in Richard and Mimi Farina’s song “ Morgan the Pirate” about Dylan. Mimi was Joan’s younger sister,
and the song is supposedly an answer to Dylan’s, Positively 4th Street. Joan is one of a kind.
Great reaction!
Beautiful song loved it, thank you x
I saw her live in 1986 at an Amnesty International concert - It was called the Conspiracy of Hope tour. I love this song. She does a very good cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
Joan Baez does some of the best Dylan covers, on the album "Any Day Now". Her a cappella version of "Tears of Rage" is amazing. I was just below the stage for her set at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. She sang "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" a cappella there. What a voice!
Her version of Tears of Rage is AMAZING
I love her cover of Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands.
Judas Priest did a wonderful interpretation of this song.
Unleashed in the East is a great live album.
Have you ever heard anything so beautiful, saw her at UCLA in 1966/67, brings tears to my eyes.
How wonderful your doing this beautiful song🎉
Joan covered so many of Bob Dylan's songs. One of the best, I think is "North Country Blues", it's one of his great storytelling songs, which he himself sang, but it's actually a woman speaking so an ideal vehicle for Joan, and very moving.
Love the guitar work and arrangement on this!
One of my all time favourite songs - beautiful reaction from a beautiful couple
Wonderful
Her description of the snatches of memories are like photos that pop up in my head. Like they were my memories
I'm always speechless at trying to explain everything I love about this song and so I don't even try... It's just too overwhelmingly beautiful. Another one of her's I think you'll really like is "Blessed Are".
I was living in my first apartment in '76 and got this LP via the Columbia House Record Club (remember that outfit ?). I knew a little about her - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, but not much more. I put this record on and listed to both sides then listened to it again. What a treasure it is. It's as fresh as if it was recorded yesterday. So glad to see younger people discovering this amazing singer.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful memories 💚
If you want chills listen to Joan Baez covering Bob Dylan’s Hard Rain’s a gonna Fall
Seldom sailed waters from her 1975 same-named album. And in the prior year, she delivered a masterpiece of an album GRACIAS A LA VIDA, songs in Spanish she grew up with. Seminal. And no one's paid attention to it for a couple of decades... what a shame. "Speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there." Poetry.
I wonder if you could tell us what native-language phrase would replace her opening line: "Well, I'll be damned-!" Half-shock (not pleasant) and half surprise (mostly pleasant, depending on the tone as spoken). Literally, this would be "Sometimes in the future, I can be cursed or damned but, for now - wow - I'm probably going to be happy."
By the way, Joan was mostly famous in lower Manhattan's Greenwich Village of the late '50s/early '60s. This was the transition from "Beatnik Culture" into a more national (USA/Canada) movement that was unleashed instead of being restricted to Just New York City. "Robert Zimmerman" arrived to that scene and Joan was one of his first - and probably his most famous 'fan'. She opened doors for him, introduced him to 'the right people', etc. I've always thought she started writing this song in 1963-1964 when Dylan was well past entering his own fame. And he didn't want to be restricted to just hers. AND she was famously married as well.
Bread and roses is fabulous
There's a great live-performance of this from the mid 70s. You may not know that she was a successful musician with a record contract and two albums already that had sold very well. He'd been around the folk scene and was well-regarded, but not yet at her professional level. When she brought him out to perform with her at the influential Newport folk festival, his career started to take off. (the new Timothy Chalomet movie covers this time period).
When he toured England in 1965, she came with him (there are two very good documentaries covering this time period: DA Pennebaker's "Don't Look Back" (filmed on the tour) + Martin Scorcese's "No Direction Home,".which covers '61-'66. "Positively 4th Street" is the name of a good read about the relationshps
Joan Baez was hurt that Dylan didn't invite her to share the stage in England and give her a boost there. He was already moving out of the folk scene and thought she'd hold him back. In the middle of the tour, Sara, the woman Dylan would marry, arrived in London and Joan didn't know about her! Joan flew back to the states and they didn't have direct contact for a few years. Messy.
Great reaction. On Christmas Day the biopic A Complete Unknown, will be released. It covers the early part of Bob Dylans career. His relationshjp witn Joan Baez is a key component.
아! 이 노래 오래간만에 듣네요. 덕분에 ^.*~ My favorite Bob Dylan & Joan Baez singers. I have this album(LP) THANKS for remember it again. Life is like that.. sometimes are diamonds and sometimes are rust... I often looking for your channel... I'm in SoHyang, Forestella's Country. thank you so much... 감사합니다. 대한민국에서 ^^
You guys should find the clip where she does the song right in front of him. She toured with him in 75-76.
Another Dylan song Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. It is long but beautiful. Check into Dylan's history of this song. Joan's voice is unique.
Baez cover of that is beautiful
yes missed it yesterday, great!
The reference of "the girl on the half shell" refers to Botticelli's famous painting "The Birth of Venus".
❤❤❤
GREAT CHOICE!!!
"I once loved you dearly" ...
Great pick. There is no reason you should know, but the performer's name is pronounced 'by as'
Alway impressed by your thoughtful reviews.
Or maybe BAI - yezz.
Thank you 😊
@@RoSaWa386-33 That's better than my attempt
Joan wrote this about her one time love Bob Dylan.
She also wrote/sang Prison Trilogy which is also a great song.
Bob Dylan was indeed a punk to Joan. He does owe her a debt of gratitude for recording his first songs and getting him noticed. This song was released in 1975 about Joan and Bob's relationship in 1962-1964 thus all the B&W photos of them together.
Another Baez song that you might like is Love Is Just a Four Letter Word (lyrics by Dylan, but not a cover, he wrote it for her to sing)
Their love was epic. But it couldn't last.
I’ve been waiting for you to do this song. 🙂
According to her biography, her vibrato was self-taught in high school.
A nickname for Baez back then was the Madonna
Her best performance in my opinion is the 1975 live performance.
I’m so glad you are reacting to songs that I grew up with, but forgot. So sad on my part. I enjoy her music.
J.B. is kinda a mega musical talent. (She's playin the guitar ) this album - about the same time She was on a tour with Dylan 'rolling thunder'. maybe 15 years ago. PBS tv did a special on Her, including short clips singing in a coffee house in Boston, maybe 17. the entire package. ps. of Course Baez ' mind was always in the good, marching with M.L.King (putting her life on line ). anti 'Nam. etc.
double ps - U.T. of course has a concert video. ' Joan Baez. diamond & rust live 1975......
The Rolling Thunder Revue Tour was 1975-76. Almost 50 years ago, not 15.
@@kbrewski1 ooops. yep. the PBS show was ' about' 15 years ago.....
Maybe the best love song ever, why is lost love the most intense ? Maybe because that intensity is impossible to maintain and when it fades you can't caryy on at a calmer level .
You can tell she was in love by the way she looked at him.
I decided THIS!! ❤ yeahh this was my petition ...! When the Joni Mitchell reaction! Joan mexican roots and pride!! ❤
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You should play "king Harvest" by The Band. There is a film when they p,at this song in studio in Woodstock in 1969.
She IS calling him out. She's rejecting what he is offering: she already bought and paid for it (the hard way.) This is an incredible kind-of "diss" song as the younger generation puts it. He apparently did not treat her well at the end. But Wow! what a beautiful song came out of it.
Pls check out a live version of this song. She's a great guitarist. Dylan said he wanted to pick like Joan but never could learn 🎶🎵💚
if you ever want to check out more Joan, go to an album simply called "5" and pick a song...any song. for me, her defining album. there is this little tune from my obscure archive that i think might be right in your wheelhouse. it's called "The Ferryman" by Ralph McTell
Judas Priest does an amazing cover of this song.
1979 best versión, but the Ripper Owens version and the acoustic are Amazing!!
@@antoniocarlin5026 Unleased in the East live!
You must listen to the cover by Blackmore' s Night: it'amazing, really!
@@marcodimaio6106 YES!!! Live is Better!
Dylan rang her , from the midwest, and ask og she would tour with him again ( after ten years), and she did.
React to Joan Baez live at Woodstock
A great reaction, as I expected! What happened to Dominica? She seems rejuvenated ...
Ohh, thank you 😊
Her best. I've always heard her name pronounced Buy - az.
Thank you 👍
Joan Baez(By as) actually gave Bob Dylan his first start in front of a large audience she was known better than he was at that time and there wasn't a good cause that she wouldn't give her time to she helped any way she could for the Common person
She was more famous than he was at the beginning. Then his star eclipsed her's, and he moved on from the relationship. It's a very complex song emotionally.
Joan Baez's stunning cover of Brothers in Arms shows what a fine protest song it is. Can't remember who wrote it.
Original is by Dire Straits. The a cappella group Home Free also does an incredible cover of the song.
Dire Straits
PS: When I wrote the above I was thinking I was writing on a Dire Straits reaction {like this duo usually do!). Obs. by Knopfler... a tongue-in-cheek fail. JB's voice suits the song of course. There's also a site where someone adds Knopfler guitar (a 'copy' of) to JB's voice but I think that's overkill and the JB versoipn stands as an alternative interpretation.
I feel so harrowingly how much he hurt her with his callous and mercenary use of her and his abandonment, in this song. And that she still loves him -- and how at the time, in 1975, he was only just beginning to really learn how to properly love her. She is violated and angry, but STILL so tender and loving toward him -- but still doesn't trust him either. It hurts so good, this song -- ouch.
To have spurned and hurt someone like Joan Baez you better reckon that she is going to turn that into a scathing and beautiful thing. She really had Dylan's number.
Silver Dagger
Beautiful song indeed - up until now, I had only heard the amazing live version of this some performed by Blackmore's Night (Richie Blackmore from Deep Purple's Celtic folk band along with the gorgeous voice of his wife, Candice Knight) and I have included the link to their video in case you might want to take a look ---- th-cam.com/video/D1aB4Be--Jc/w-d-xo.html
PLEASE listen to her a cappella cover of the Dylan song Tears of Rage. You will be dumbfounded at her voice
Definitely a one sided love story - he treated her badly and left her ‘behind’.
He couldn’t live up to her expectations …..that was a big part of it I think. She wanted him to join her in her activism, and he didn’t want to go that route
This is a gorgeous song, but it does not showcase Baez’ voice. She had a high clear soprano that was magnificent.
Try. Mexican singer "lypita dalesio.