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66-586: Gulf Winds is the only Baez album without any covers; each song was written by Baez herself. From the album's liner notes : All tracks composed by Joan Baez Side One Side Two "Special thanks to Carlos Bernal" Joan Baez Joan Chandos Baez ( / b aɪ z / BYZE , Spanish: [ˈbaes] ; born January 9, 1941 ) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice . Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums. Baez

132-673: A 23-minute title song which took up all of the B-side of the album. Half spoken word poem and half tape-recorded sounds, the song documented Baez's visit to Hanoi , North Vietnam , in December 1972 during which she and her traveling companions survived the 11-day-long Christmas Bombings campaign over Hanoi and Haiphong . (See Vietnam War in Civil rights section below.) Gracias a la Vida (1974) (the title song written and first performed by Chilean folk singer Violeta Parra ) followed and

198-468: A Spanish-speaking congregation. Albert first considered becoming a minister but instead turned to the study of mathematics and physics and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1950. Albert was later credited as a co-inventor of the X-ray microscope . Joan's cousin, John C. Baez , is a mathematical physicist . Her mother, Joan Chandos Baez (née Bridge), referred to as Joan Senior or "Big Joan",

264-459: A Time , like David's Album , featured a decidedly country sound. Baez's distinctive vocal style and political activism had a significant impact on American popular music. She was one of the first musicians to use her popularity as a vehicle for social protest, singing and marching for human rights and peace. Pete Seeger , Odetta , and decades-long friend Harry Belafonte were her early social justice advocate influences. Baez came to be considered

330-426: A Voice to Sing With is "I was born gifted" (referring to her singing voice, which she explained was given to her and for which she can take no credit). A friend of Joan's father gave her a ukulele . She learned four chords, which enabled her to play rhythm and blues , the music she was listening to at the time. Her parents, however, were fearful that the music would lead her into a life of drug addiction . When Baez

396-647: A benefit for her sister Mimi's Bread and Roses organization. She later returned for another concert in 1996. Beginning in 2001, Baez has had several successful long-term engagements as a lead character at San Francisco's Teatro ZinZanni . In August 2001, Vanguard began re-releasing Baez's first 13 albums, which she recorded for the label between 1960 and 1971. The reissues, being released through Vanguard's Original Master Series, feature digitally restored sound, unreleased bonus songs, new and original artwork, and new liner-note essays written by Arthur Levy. Likewise, her six A&M albums were reissued in 2003. In 2003, Baez

462-629: A classical music composer, who provided classical orchestration for her next three albums: Noël (1966), Joan (1967), and Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time (1968). Noël was a Christmas album of traditional material, while Baptism was akin to a concept album , featuring Baez reading and singing poems written by celebrated poets such as James Joyce , Federico García Lorca , and Walt Whitman . Joan featured interpretations of work by contemporary composers, including John Lennon and Paul McCartney , Tim Hardin , Paul Simon , and Donovan . In 1968, Baez traveled to Nashville, Tennessee , where

528-529: A contract with a major label, Virgin Records , recording Play Me Backwards (1992) for Virgin shortly before the company was purchased by EMI . She then switched to Guardian, with whom she produced a live album, Ring Them Bells (1995), and a studio album, Gone from Danger (1997). In 1993, at the invitation of Refugees International and sponsored by the Soros Foundation , she traveled to

594-612: A dissident human-rights group, which resulted in her microphone being shut off abruptly. Baez then proceeded to sing a cappella for the nearly four thousand gathered. Havel cited her as a great inspiration and influence in that country's Velvet Revolution , the revolution in which the Soviet-dominated Communist government there was overthrown. Baez recorded two more albums with Gold Castle: Speaking of Dreams , (1989) and Brothers in Arms (1991). She then landed

660-501: A few friends, resulting in eight patrons. Baez was paid ten dollars before she was later asked back and began performing twice a week for $ 25 per show. A few months later, Baez and two other folk enthusiasts made plans to record an album in the cellar of a friend's house. The trio sang solos and duets and a family friend designed the album cover, which was released on Veritas Records that same year as Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square . Baez later met Bob Gibson and Odetta , who were at

726-462: A guest spot on their subsequent Human Rights Now! tour. Baez found herself without an American label for the release of Live Europe 83 (1984), which was released in Europe and Canada but not released commercially in the U.S. She did not have an American release until the album Recently (1987) on Gold Castle Records . In 1987, Baez's second autobiography, called And a Voice to Sing With ,

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792-419: A live album that had Baez performing songs "from every stage" of her career, Baez again parted ways with a record label when she moved to CBS Records for Blowin' Away (1977) and Honest Lullaby (1979). In 1980, Baez was given honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees by Antioch University and Rutgers University for her political activism and the "universality of her music". In 1983, she appeared on

858-656: A marathon recording session resulted in two albums. The first, Any Day Now (1968), consists exclusively of Dylan covers. The other, the country-music-infused David's Album (1969), was recorded for husband David Harris , a prominent anti- Vietnam War protester eventually imprisoned for draft resistance . Harris, a country music fan, turned Baez toward more complex country-rock influences beginning with David's Album . Later in 1968, Baez published her first memoir, Daybreak (by Dial Press ). In August 1969, her appearance at Woodstock in upstate New York raised her international musical and political profile, particularly after

924-567: A musician. Though primarily an album artist, several of Baez's singles have charted, the first being her 1965 cover of Phil Ochs ' "There but for Fortune", which became a mid-level chart hit in the U.S. and Canada, and a top-ten single in the United Kingdom. Baez added other instruments to her recordings on Farewell, Angelina (1965), which features several Dylan songs interspersed with more traditional fare. Deciding to experiment with different styles, Baez turned to Peter Schickele ,

990-601: A songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work, having recorded many traditional songs and songs written by the Allman Brothers Band , the Beatles , Jackson Browne , Leonard Cohen , Woody Guthrie , Violeta Parra , the Rolling Stones , Pete Seeger , Paul Simon , Stevie Wonder , Bob Marley , and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in

1056-594: A viral hit. On April 7, 2017, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . On March 2, 2018, she released a new studio album entitled Whistle Down the Wind , which charted in many countries and was nominated for a Grammy, and undertook her "Fare Thee Well Tour" to support the album. On April 30, 2019, Baez told Rolling Stone that she had been approached to perform at the Woodstock 50 festival, but had turned

1122-457: Is generally regarded as a folk singer , but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock , pop, country , and gospel music . She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez , Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert , all achieved gold record status. Although

1188-514: The New York Times , praised the concert, saying, "That superb soprano voice, as lustrous and rich as old gold, flowed purely all evening with a wondrous ease. Her singing (unwound) like a spool of satin." Years later when Baez thought back to that concert, she laughed, saying: "I remember in 1961 my manager sending me this newspaper (clipping) in the mail (which) read, 'Joan Baez Town Hall Concert, SRO.' I thought SRO meant 'sold right out.' I

1254-532: The Grammy Awards , performing Dylan's anthemic " Blowin' in the Wind ", a song she first performed twenty years earlier. Baez also played a significant role in the 1985 Live Aid concert for African famine relief, opening the U.S. segment of the show in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. She has toured on behalf of many other causes, including Amnesty International 's 1986 A Conspiracy of Hope tour and

1320-564: The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award . The day after receiving the honor, she appeared at the Grammy Awards ceremony and introduced a performance by the Dixie Chicks . September 2008 saw the release of the studio album Day After Tomorrow , produced by Steve Earle and featuring three of his songs. The album was Baez's first charting record in nearly three decades. On June 29, 2008, Baez performed on

1386-724: The International Society for Optical Engineering awarded him and Kirkpatrick the Dennis Gabor Award for pioneering contributions to the development of X-ray imaging microscopes and X-ray imaging telescopes. In 1995, the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) established the Albert V. Baez Award for Technical Excellence and Service to Humanity. Báez himself was inducted into

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1452-843: The PBS series American Masters , is the true core of her life, "looming larger than music". Baez spent much of her formative youth living in the San Francisco Bay area , where she graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1958. Here, Baez dated Michael New, a fellow student described as " Trinidad English" whom she met at her college in the late 1950s, and occasionally introduced as her husband. Baez committed her first act of civil disobedience by refusing to leave her Palo Alto High School classroom in Palo Alto, California for an air raid drill . She remained close to her younger sister Mimi up until Mimi's death in 2001 and mentioned in

1518-615: The University of Redlands , where he continued his X-ray research. Baez took leave for a year to work with UNESCO in 1951, and stationed his family in Baghdad to establish the physics department and laboratory at Baghdad University . In 1956, Baez returned to Stanford and began to work with Jerrold R. Zacharias . Together, they worked on the Physics Science Study Committee, which was an effort to reshape

1584-619: The X-ray reflection microscope for examination of living cells. This microscope is still used in medicine . Baez received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford in 1950, and wrote his thesis titled "Principles of X-Ray Optics and the Development of a Single State X-Ray Microscope". [2] In 1948, while still a graduate student at Stanford, he developed concentric circles of alternating opaque and transparent materials to use diffraction instead of refraction to focus X-rays. These zone plates proved useful and even essential decades later only with

1650-720: The environment . Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. Baez was born in the Staten Island borough of New York City on January 9, 1941. Her grandfather, Alberto Baez, left the Catholic Church to become a Methodist minister and moved to the U.S. when her father was two years old. Her father, Albert Baez (1912–2007), was born in Puebla , Mexico, and grew up in Brooklyn , New York, where his father preached to – and advocated for –

1716-474: The feminist movement and is not a vegetarian. She is the subject of the 2023 documentary Joan Baez: I Am a Noise , in which she reflected on among other things her personal struggles, her political activism, and her personal and professional relationship with Bob Dylan. She also related that Mimi and she had struggled with depression and after years of therapy came to believe that they had been abused by their father. The opening line of Baez's memoir And

1782-478: The "most accomplished interpretive folksinger/songwriter of the 1960s". Her appeal extended far beyond the folk music audience. Of her fourteen Vanguard albums, thirteen made the top 100 of Billboard's mainstream pop chart, eleven made the top forty, eight made the top twenty, and four made the top ten. After eleven years with Vanguard, Baez decided in 1971 to cut ties with the label that had released her albums since 1960. She delivered Vanguard one last success with

1848-428: The 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Following that appearance, she recorded her first album for Vanguard, Joan Baez (1960), produced by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers , who produced many albums by folk artists. The collection of traditional folk ballads , blues, and laments sung to her own guitar accompaniment sold moderately well. It featured many popular Child Ballads of the day and was recorded in only four days in

1914-567: The 2009 American Masters documentary that she had grown closer to her older sister Pauline in later years. Presently, Baez is a resident of Woodside, California , where she lived with her mother until the latter's death in 2013. She has said that her house has a backyard tree house in which she spends time meditating, writing, and "being close to nature". Since stepping down from the stage in 2019, she has devoted herself to portraiture. Owing to false assumptions that have been promoted about her, Baez stated in 2019 that she has never been part of

1980-491: The Band 's " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ". She is also known for " Farewell, Angelina ", " Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word ", " Forever Young ", " Here's to You ", " Joe Hill ", " Sweet Sir Galahad " and " We Shall Overcome ". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence , civil rights , human rights , and

2046-521: The HENAAC Hall of Fame in 1998. Báez was the father of folk singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña , whom he encouraged to enjoy music and the arts, and of Pauline Bryan; he also was the uncle of mathematical physicist John Baez . He had three grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. He died of natural causes on March 20, 2007, at age 94 in the Redwood City care home where he had lived for

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2112-632: The San Francisco area to Boston, Massachusetts after her father accepted a faculty position at MIT . At that time, it was in the center of the up-and-coming folk-music scene and she began performing near home in Boston and nearby Cambridge . She also performed in clubs and attended Boston University for about six weeks before she gave her first concert at the Club 47 in Cambridge. When designing

2178-592: The Southern states, she would play only at black colleges. Owing to her father's work with UNESCO , their family moved many times, living in towns across the U.S. as well as in England, France, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, and the Middle East, including Iraq . Joan Baez became involved with a variety of social causes early in her career, including civil rights and nonviolence . Social justice , she stated in

2244-633: The acoustic stage at the Glastonbury Festival playing out the final set to a packed audience. On July 6, 2008, she played at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux , Switzerland. During the concert's finale, she spontaneously danced on stage with a band of African percussionists. On August 2, 2009, Baez played at the 50th Newport Folk Festival , which also marked the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough performance at

2310-522: The ballroom of New York City's Manhattan Towers Hotel. The album also included " El Preso Numero Nueve ", a song sung entirely in Spanish, which she would re-record in 1974 for inclusion on her Spanish-language album Gracias a la Vida . She made her New York concert debut on November 5, 1960, at the 92nd Street Y and on November 11, 1961, Baez played her first major New York concert at a sold-out performance at Town Hall . Robert Shelton, folk critic of

2376-700: The choir in the finale of " O Holy Night ". In February 2007, Proper Records reissued her 1995 live album Ring Them Bells , which featured duets with artists ranging from Dar Williams and Mimi Fariña to the Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter . The reissue features a 16-page booklet and six unreleased live tracks from the original recording sessions. In addition, Baez recorded a duet of "Jim Crow" with John Mellencamp which appears on his album Freedom's Road (2007). Also in February 2007, she received

2442-473: The daughter of an Episcopalian priest, in 1936. The couple became Quakers . The two had three daughters (Pauline, Joan, and Mimi), then moved to California : Báez enrolled at Stanford's doctoral program in physics. Baez taught at Wagner College from 1940 to 1944, and then moved to Stanford University in 1944 where he taught undergraduate courses in physics and mathematics. In 1948, Báez co-invented, with his doctoral program advisor, Paul Kirkpatrick ,

2508-456: The development of sufficiently bright, high intensity, synchrotron X-ray sources. As the Cold War intensified in the 1950s, Báez's talent was in high demand in the burgeoning arms race , yet his family's pacifism moved him to refuse lucrative defense industry positions, and he devoted himself instead to education and humanitarianism . From 1950 to 1956, he held a professorship at

2574-553: The early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Her tumultuous relationship with Dylan later became the subject of songs from both and generated much public speculation. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams , Josh Ritter , Steve Earle , Natalie Merchant , and Joe Henry . Baez's acclaimed songs include " Diamonds & Rust " and covers of Phil Ochs 's " There but for Fortune " and

2640-660: The faculty at Harvey Mudd College . From 1961 to 1967, he served as the first director of the science education program for UNESCO in Paris. Here, he helped to develop projects in the basic sciences in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Arab states. Baez was the author of the textbook The New College Physics: A Spiral Approach (1967). He was the co-author of the textbook The Environment and Science and Technology Education (1987), and

2706-452: The father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña , and an uncle of John C. Baez . He made important contributions to the early development of X-ray microscopes , X-ray optics , and later X-ray telescopes . Albert Báez was born in Puebla , Mexico, in 1912 to Alberto B. Báez and Thalia Báez. His father was a Methodist minister and his mother was a social worker for the YWCA . Albert

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2772-480: The first festival. On October 14, 2009, PBS aired an episode of its documentary series American Masters , entitled Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound . It was produced and directed by Mary Wharton. A DVD and CD of the soundtrack were released at the same time. On April 4, 2017, Baez released on her Facebook page her first new song in 27 years, "Nasty Man", a protest song against US President Donald Trump , which became

2838-438: The funeral of Lou Rawls , where she led Jesse Jackson Sr., Wonder, and others in the singing of " Amazing Grace ". On June 6, 2006, Baez joined Bruce Springsteen on stage at his San Francisco concert, where the two performed the rolling anthem " Pay Me My Money Down ". In September 2006, Baez contributed a live, retooled version of her classic song "Sweet Sir Galahad" to a Starbucks 's exclusive XM Artist Confidential album. In

2904-596: The gold-selling album Blessed Are... (1971), which included a top-ten hit in " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ", her cover of the Band 's signature song. With Come from the Shadows (1972), Baez switched to A&M Records , where she remained for four years and six albums. Joan Baez wrote "The Story of Bangladesh" in 1971. This song was based on the Pakistani army crackdown on unarmed sleeping Bengali students at Dhaka University on March 25, 1971, which ignited

2970-696: The memoir, A Year in Baghdad (1988), written with his wife Joan. Báez made nearly a hundred films on physics from 1967 to 1974 for the Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corp. Báez chaired the Commission on Education of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources from 1979 to 1983. On 22 June 1974, Britain's Open University awarded Baez an honorary degree as Doctor of

3036-804: The moment she appeared on stage. Havel was a great admirer of both Baez and her work. During Baez's next visit to Prague, in April 2007, the two met again when she performed in front of a sold-out house at Prague's Lucerna Hall , a building erected by Havel's grandfather. On December 2, 2006, she made a guest appearance at the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir 's Christmas Concert at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland , California. Her participation included versions of " Let Us Break Bread Together " and "Amazing Grace". She also joined

3102-526: The new version, she changed the lyric "here's to the dawn of their days" to "here's to the dawn of her days", as a tribute to her late sister Mimi, about whom Baez wrote the song in 1969. Later on, October 8, 2006, she appeared as a special surprise guest at the opening ceremony of the Forum 2000 international conference in Prague . Her performance was kept secret from former Czech Republic President Havel until

3168-433: The offer down for "it was too complicated to even get involved in" and her "instincts" were telling her "no". On July 28, 2019, following dates across Europe, Baez performed her final concert at Madrid's Teatro Real. Albert Baez Albert Vinicio Báez ( / ˈ b aɪ . ɛ z / BY -ez , Spanish: [biˈnisjo ˈβaes] ; November 15, 1912 – March 20, 2007) was a Mexican-American physicist and

3234-464: The otherworldly voice, and it was this appearance that led to Baez signing with Vanguard Records the following year, although Columbia Records tried to sign her first. Baez later claimed that she felt she would be given more artistic license at a more "low key" label. Baez's nickname at the time, "Madonna", has been attributed to her clear voice, long hair, and natural beauty, and to her role as "Earth Mother". Her true professional career began at

3300-458: The poster for the performance, Baez considered changing her performing name to either Rachel Sandperl, the surname of her longtime mentor Ira Sandperl , or Maria from the song " They Call the Wind Maria ". She later opted against doing so, fearing that people would accuse her of changing her last name because it was Spanish. The audience consisted of her parents, sister Mimi, her boyfriend, and

3366-491: The prolonged nine-month Bangladesh Liberation War . The song was later entitled "The Song of Bangladesh" and released in a 1972 album from Chandos Music. During this period in late 1971, she reunited with composer Peter Schickele to record two tracks, "Rejoice in the Sun" and "Silent Running" for the science-fiction film Silent Running . The two songs were issued as a single on Decca (32890). In addition to this, another LP

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3432-408: The successful release of the documentary film Woodstock (1970). Beginning in the late 1960s, Baez began writing many of her own songs, beginning with " Sweet Sir Galahad " and "A Song For David", both songs appearing on her 1970 (I Live) One Day at a Time album; "Sweet Sir Galahad" was written about her sister Mimi's second marriage, while "A Song For David" was a tribute to Harris. One Day at

3498-478: The time two of the most prominent vocalists singing folk and gospel music . Baez cites Odetta as a primary influence along with Marian Anderson and Pete Seeger. Gibson invited Baez to perform with him at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival , where they sang two duets, "Virgin Mary Had One Son" and "We Are Crossing Jordan River". The performance generated substantial praise for the "barefoot Madonna" with

3564-485: The university. After his retirement, Báez occasionally delivered physics lectures and was the president of Vivamos Mejor /USA in 1986, an organization founded in 1988 to help impoverished villages in Mexico. Its projects include preschool education , environmental projects, and community and educational activities. His lectures often included the "importance of the 3 Cs- curiosity, creativity, and compassion." In 1991,

3630-544: The war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina region of former- Yugoslavia in an effort to help bring more attention to the suffering there. She was the first major artist to perform in Sarajevo since the outbreak of the Yugoslav civil war . In October of that year, Baez became the first major artist to perform in a professional concert presentation on Alcatraz Island (a former U.S. federal prison) in San Francisco, California, in

3696-755: The way physics was taught in high schools. In 1959, Baez accepted a faculty position at MIT and moved his family to the Boston area. Baez worked on physics education with the Physical Science Study Committee , in particular, focused on producing films. In 1960, working with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge , he developed optics for an X-ray telescope. Later that year he moved his family to Claremont, California , where he joined

3762-497: Was Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 that featured Baez's first-ever Dylan cover. From the early to the mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival , where she introduced her audiences to the then-unknown Bob Dylan and was emulated by artists such as Judy Collins , Emmylou Harris , Joni Mitchell , and Bonnie Raitt . On November 23, 1962, Baez appeared on the cover of Time Magazine —a rare honor then for

3828-601: Was 13, her aunt took her to a concert by folk musician Pete Seeger , and Baez found herself strongly moved by his music. She soon began practicing the songs of his repertoire and performing them publicly. One of her very earliest public performances was at a retreat in Saratoga, California , for a youth group from Temple Beth Jacob, a Redwood City, California , Jewish congregation. A few years later, in 1957, Baez bought her first Gibson acoustic guitar. After graduating from high school in 1958, Baez and her family moved from

3894-426: Was a success in both the U.S. and Latin America. It included the song " Cucurrucucú paloma ". Flirting with mainstream pop music as well as writing her own songs for Diamonds & Rust (1975), the album became the highest selling of Baez's career and included a second top-ten single in the form of the title track. After Gulf Winds (1976), an album of entirely self-composed songs and From Every Stage (1976),

3960-569: Was also a judge for the third annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers. Her album, Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (2003), features songs by composers half her age, while a November 2004 performance at New York City's Bowery Ballroom was recorded for a live release, Bowery Songs (2005). On October 1, 2005, she performed at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park . Then, on January 13, 2006, Baez performed at

4026-508: Was better known as Mimi Fariña . The Baez family converted to Quakerism during Joan's early childhood, and she has continued to identify with the tradition, particularly in her commitment to pacifism and social issues. While growing up, Baez was subjected to racial slurs and discrimination because of her Mexican heritage. Consequently, she became involved in social causes early in her career. She declined to play in any white student venues that were segregated, which meant that when she toured

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4092-545: Was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second daughter of an English Anglican priest who claimed to be descended from the Dukes of Chandos . Born on April 11, 1913, she died on April 20, 2013. Baez was the second of three sisters, all of whom were political activists and musicians. The eldest was Pauline Thalia Baez Bryan (1938–2016), also known as Pauline Marden, and the youngest was Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña (1945–2001), who

4158-760: Was four when his father moved his family to the United States, first to Texas for a year and then to New York City. Albert, his sister Mimi and brother Peter were raised in Brooklyn where his father founded the First Spanish Methodist Church in New York . During his youth, Baez contemplated becoming a minister, but he followed his interests in mathematics and physics instead. Báez earned degrees in mathematics and physics from Drew University (BS, 1933) and mathematics from Syracuse University (MS, 1935). He married Joan Chandos Bridge,

4224-556: Was published and became a New York Times bestseller . That same year, she traveled to the Middle East to visit with and sing songs of peace for Israel and the Palestinians . In May 1989, Baez performed at a music festival in communist Czechoslovakia called Bratislavská lýra. While there, she met future Czechoslovak president Václav Havel , whom she let carry her guitar so as to prevent his arrest by government agents. During her performance, she greeted members of Charter 77 ,

4290-567: Was released on Decca (DL 7-9188) and was later reissued by Varèse Sarabande on black (STV-81072) and green (VC-81072) vinyl. In 1998, a limited release on CD by the "Valley Forge Record Groupe" was released. Baez's first album for A&M, Come from the Shadows , was recorded in Nashville, and included a number of more personal compositions, including "Love Song to a Stranger" and "Myths", as well as work by Mimi Farina, John Lennon, and Anna Marly. Where Are You Now, My Son? (1973) featured

4356-482: Was so innocent of it all." Her second release, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (1961), went gold , as did Joan Baez in Concert , Part 1 (1962) and Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 (1963). Like its immediate predecessor, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 contained strictly traditional material. Her two albums of live material, Joan Baez in Concert, Part 1 and its second counterpart were unique in that unlike most live albums, they contained only new songs rather than established favorites. It

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