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August 13, 2000

This Day in Rock

Baez Banned
August 25, 1998

Newport Folk Fest Spices Up Motor City

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From Every Stage

While this two-record live set will delight Baez devotees, it is not likely to win new friends or influence new people. To succeed, a live album must have a higher energy level than a studio set, which was the aesthetic logic behind the release of Dylan's crude but thrilling Before the Flood. On...

1993 RS: Not Rated

Rare, Live And Classic

1993

Play Me Backwards

1992

Blowin' Away

1977

Come from the Shadows

1972

Blessed Are...

1971

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Biography

Joan Baez's musical and political significance are so intertwined that it's hard to assess her impact solely on aesthetic grounds. A leading participant in the '60s cultural revolution, she lent intelligent credibility to radical ideas; and not only did her perfectly enunciated versions of Bob Dylan and Tim Hardin songs win highbrow listeners over to the new music, but her chaste -- if sometimes o...

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