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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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Day After Tomorrow

"I believe in prophecy," Baez sings on her new album. For five decades, her ringing soprano has been a prophetic sound, summoning the earnestness and anger — and, a bit too often, the self-righteousness — of the folk revival that made her its poster child. For her 24th studio release,...

2008 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Rare, Live And Classic

1993

Play Me Backwards

1992

Blowin' Away

1977

From Every Stage

1976

Come from the Shadows

1972

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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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