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   Joan Baez: General Info
Member Since3/21/2007
Band Websitewww.joanbaez.com
Band MembersJoan Baez - guitar, vocals
John Doyle - guitar, vocals
Dirk Powell - fiddle, banjo, mandolin, accordian
Todd Phillips - bass
Gabriel Harris - percussion

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You are invited to be part of a special Amazon listening party. Get an exclusive preview of select tracks from Joan's upcoming American Masters documentary "Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound" here! Enjoy!

October 14th is the date that PBS's American Masters series premieres "Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound," the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle her life and career. This film examines Joan's history as a recording artist and performer, as well as her remarkable journey as the conscience of a generation. The documentary's premiere television airing coincides with the DVD/CD release on October 13th, featuring bonus content and an audio soundtrack, in addition to rare performance footage, home videos and candid interviews with artists such as David Crosby, Bob Dylan, David Harris, Steve Earle, Reverend Jesse Jackson and Roger McGuinn. You can pre-order your own copy from Amazon: CD (soundtrack), DVD, or DVD/CD deluxe combo.

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Joan's song for the people of Iran.

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Twenty-two years after its original release, Joan's autobiography And A Voice To Sing With will be re-released as a trade paperback on July 21, 2009, by Simon & Schuster. Joan's is a journey of the spirit, told with intimacy and passion as she shares her introduction to folk music and her baptism as its first female star in the coffee houses of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She recounts her musical and personal entwinement with Bob Dylan; her marriage to David Harris, and their painful breakup; and the joy she found upon the birth of her son, Gabriel. With a new introduction by acclaimed music critic Anthony DeCurtis, this book is the story of an American cultural icon. Marked by the openness and vulnerability that have touched us in her music, and the passion and integrity that have informed her politics, this is a disarmingly frank and stirring memoir of the life and work of one of the most extraordinary performers of our time. You can pre-order yours at Amazon

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On April 28th, the Collector's Editions of both Gone From Danger and Ring Them Bells were released. Gone From Danger includes a bonus CD of Joan's 1997 performance on public radio's Mountain Stage. Joining Joan on eight of the ten songs from the album are Dar Williams, Sinead Lohan, Betty and Gene Elders, and Richard Shindell. Ring Them Bells (previously released in the UK), features an additional six tracks, including three solo songs, and one additional song with Tish Hinojosa, one additional song with Indigo Girls and one additional song with Mary Chapin Carpenter. Both Collector's Edition CDs are on Joan's label, Bobolink, and distributed by Razor & Tie.

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March 24 was the release date for Grammy-winning classical guitarist Sharon Isbin's Journey To The New World, which includes the "Joan Baez Suite: Opus 144," a piece by John Duarte comprised of songs from Joan's early career: "Once I Had A Sweetheart," "Rambler Gambler," "House of the Rising Sun," "The Lily Of The West," "The Unquiet Grave," "Silkie," "Where Have All The Flowers Gone," "Rake and Rambling Boy,&" "Wildwood Flower," and "The Trees They Do Grow High." The Sony Classical label CD also features Joan's vocals on"I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "Go 'Way From My Window." Click here to order from Amazon.

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Joan's new CD, DAY AFTER TOMORROW, is in stores (online and offline) now, on the Bobolink label (distributed by Razor & Tie). Produced by Steve Earle, the album includes "Day After Tomorrow" (Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan), as well as three songs by Steve Earle, two by Eliza Gilkyson, one each by Thea Gilmore, Patty Griffin, Diana Jones, and Elvis Costello/Joseph Henry Burnett ("Scarlet Tide").

Click on the iTunes image below to buy!

Day After Tomorrow

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Joan and Steve on DAY AFTER TOMORROW

Joan Baez and Steve Earle discuss working together on Joan's CD, DAY AFTER TOMORROW.

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On July 22nd, Telarc Records released the new Maria Muldaur CD called Yes We Can! This album showcases the work of some of the most socially conscious songwriters of the past half-century, and along with Joan as a special guest, features appearances by Bonnie Raitt, Odetta, Jane Fonda, Holly Near and Phoebe Snow.

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Wildflower Records releases Born To The Breed: A Tribute To Judy Collins on October 14. Joan is among the 15 artists contributing a track, offering a beautiful version of Collins' "Since You've Asked."

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Look for Joan's guest appearance on the new Thea Gilmore CD, Liejacker. Joan duets with Thea on the song, "The Lower Road." And Thea returns the favor on Joan's Day After Tomorrow.

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On February 10, 2007, Joan was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award by NARAS (The Recording Academy). The following evening she appeared on the Grammy Awards television broadcast introducing a performance by the Dixie Chicks.

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Record LabelBobolink/Distributed by Razor & Tie and Proper
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Joan Baez

Joan Baez is so ingrained in the collective consciousness as the archetypal coffeehouse folksinger that it's hard to remember that unless you happened to be hanging around Harvard Square at the close of the 1950s, you never got the chance to hear her perform in an intimate room. While still a teenager, Joan Baez appeared at the Newport Folk Festival in 1959, a musical watershed that - while lacking the galvanizing electricity of Elvis' hips, the Beatles' haircuts, or Bob Dylan's ellipsis and amplification - has had just as profound and durable an influence on American and international music mores. What makes the musical revolution Joan Baez pioneered so particularly remarkable is that it occurred so quietly and with so much personal restraint, grace, and humility that, to this day, as it continues to move forward in gentle organic rhythms, it seems too much in harmony with the natural order to feel like a cataclysm.

The 1960s were a period of cultural renaissance and political upheaval. Popular music, and especially rock and roll, began to articulate the exhilaration, conflict, yearnings and turbulence of the era. What Joan Baez introduced into the explosion was the strength, intelligence, and complexity of the feminine principal. Given an impossibly pure and crystalline soprano, a sense of personal integrity subject to confusion and endless questioning, acute intuition and painful instinct, Joan Baez, unlike the novas and divas of that, or any, era relied on something more deeply human that mere star-power. She could've been the big sister of everyone in the audience except she sang with the piercing clarity of an angel.

For the past nearly 50 years, as a singer, musician, social activist, and goodwill ambassador, Joan Baez has kept her pact with the spirit of her voice. Throughout her career, she has followed a pattern of mutual mentoring, begun when she first met Bob Dylan. She continues the pattern with striking results on recent tours that have included onstage collaborations with a range of talented young writers and performers, including Dar Williams, Eliza Carthy, and Josh Ritter among others.


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Dante Monno

Dante Monno



Dec 27 2009 5:53 PM

Merry Christmas and happy holidays Joan
Romano

Alejandro Romano



Dec 27 2009 5:53 PM

Querida y admirada Joan !!!!

Lo mejor en los escenarios como en la vida para este 2010 !!!

Abrazos y Felicidades

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sonia.stella

sonia stella



Dec 27 2009 5:53 PM

MUCHAS GRACIAS JOAN

BONNES FETES

BESITOS.
James Monahan

James Monahan



Dec 27 2009 5:53 PM

Joan;May God watch over you and bless your new year.For remember "Blessed are ".
BRUNO BISARO

BRUNO BISARO



Dec 27 2009 5:52 PM

J'écoute et je réécoute ton magnifique "day after tomorrow". C'est comme si je donnais un peu plus d'espace au garçon que j'aime pour qu'il entre dans ma vie. C'est l'un de tes plus beaux disques. Merci Joan pour ta musique et pour ta voix. Merci de m'accompagner dans ma vie si fortement, si intensément. Je t'aime. Bruno
Assy

Astrid Hillebrandt



Dec 27 2009 5:52 PM

Dear Joan, I wish you a blessing Sabbat and a nice weekend!
Greetings Assy
Aurore AJALBERT : Author, Director, script-Writer

Aurore AJalbert



Dec 27 2009 5:52 PM

Hi Joan,
I wish you a Wonderful HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
All the best.
Aurore.


CESVAINE

CESVAINE



Dec 27 2009 5:52 PM

Nedeleg Laouen Joan !
Andrew

Andrew Caffrey



Dec 27 2009 5:51 PM

Merry Christmas Joan.
saxmax

saxmax



Dec 27 2009 5:51 PM

Hello Joan!
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year!!!
Lots of love, Adrian



María Peyrú

María Peyrú



Dec 27 2009 5:51 PM

Felices Fiestas Joan! Gracias por tu música.
Karlheinz Fey

Karlheinz Fey



Dec 27 2009 5:51 PM

Dear Joan,
I wish you and your family a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy
new year! I do look forward to seeing you on your tour in Germany.
Best regards
Karlheinz
Red Army Brigade

Red Army Brigade



Dec 27 2009 5:50 PM

Thank you Joan Baez for being our friend, we are very grateful! We love your music very much!!
WEYÚ now on ITUNES

WEYÚ now on ITUNES



Dec 27 2009 5:50 PM

Hello!
Just saw your part in "no direction home/bob Dylan" - and wanted to express how much I appreciate your actions. Here in Austria, I am kind of rebel too (with my spanish lyrics) but sometimes it is important to wake them up a bit and to standout (since here everybody expects me to sing in english - and theat's not less strange, to me, because our main language here is german...) -
love from Vienna and thanks fro your inspiration,
Esther
David

David Bradlee Slatton



Dec 27 2009 5:50 PM

Merry Christmas Joan.....David
Lee Silby

Lee Silby



Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

Hi Joan, Sending you All Gods Love and And a Very Merry Christmas to You & Yours!
All Peace & Love Lee
Ken

Ken



Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

Hello Joan...
You are still so beautiful, and still sing GREAT !! I am glad to see you have your son with you in the band.
I have seen you many times, and enjoyed your show and your sense of humor....
KEEP SMILING that beautiful smile..
I hope YOU & YOURS have a safe, blessed, HAPPY CHRISTMAS ....
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“HAPPY CHRISTMAS (War Is Over)”
By John Lennon & Yoko Ono

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun

And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong

And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun

And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

War is over
If you want it
War is over
Now

MsJoys

MsJoys



Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

Hi Joan! Just stopped by to wish you a very Merry Christmas! Never forget "why" we celebrate!
Ricky Edbert (RIP THE REV)

Ricky Edbert Thornando



Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

i love you joan
your song, donna donna inspire me to make a song
and inspired my hero, soe hok gie! long live joan
-indonesia-
Gerard Fandango

Gerard Fandango



Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

Hello Joan:-)

Thx for your beautiful music :-)
Happy holidays and a great and musical 2010 !

Greetings Gerard
Antwerp Begium
Assy

Astrid Hillebrandt



Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

Dear Joan, I wish you a blessing Sabbat and a nice weekend!
Greetings Assy
Marls

Marls



Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

The most wonderful singer of our time. A lovely, gracious lady who has time for her fans. May you and your loved ones enjoy a happy, joyful and peaceful Christmas.
Aurora

Aurora Marini



Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

Merry Xmas full of peace love and harmony
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Dec 27 2009 5:49 PM

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Richard Harris

Richard Harris



Dec 27 2009 5:47 PM

Joan Baez,

Just checking in on you my friend and hoping you are well !

A THOUGHT FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON ...

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."

~ Hamilton Wright Mabi

MAY YOUR HEART BE FILLED WITH THE JOYOUS SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS ALL YEAR LONG!

Please stay in touch from time to time and let me know how you are!

Your friend,

Richard

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