Joan Baez
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Joan Baez

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Joan Chandos Baez (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 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 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 songs by Bob Dylan in 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 by each of them 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 songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She also recorded "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 the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017.

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Films Featuring Joan Baez

Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

19677.4

Merton: A Film Biography

19848.5

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

20236.6

Woodstock

19707.6

Slacker Uprising

20075.3

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

20077.0

Berkeley in the Sixties

19906.0

Live Aid

19857.9

Ennio

20228.3

Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

20097.6

Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival

19966.8

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

20096.0

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

201310.0

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival

20078.1

The Big T.N.T. Show

19658.5

Sing Sing Thanksgiving

19728.0

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work

19937.0

Wondering About Things

1971

Renaldo and Clara

19787.9

Carry It On

1970

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

20138.0

A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings

2021

Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited

2014

Celebration at Big Sur

19713.7

Joan Baez - Blessed Are

1971

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain

19769.5

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

20057.8

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

20228.2

Dynamite Chicken

19715.5

The Making of Silent Running

19728.0

The March

19647.0

Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends

20216.6

Festival

19676.0

Scruggs: A Festival of Music

Scruggs: A Festival of Music

1972

Woodstock: Untold Stories

2009

The Return of Bruno

19876.5

The Memory of Justice

19766.8

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

20096.7

Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration

20167.0

King in the Wilderness

20186.9

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

2014

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

20024.5

Bulles de Vian

20095.0

Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019

20196.3

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

20116.6

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

20197.0

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

20197.3

Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

2019

In Remembrance of Martin

19868.0

Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort

20201.0

The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973

19737.0

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'

19846.5

Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology

2004

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

19707.3

Live Aid

20049.2

65 Revisited

20079.4

Sing Sing Thanksgiving

19749.5

Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live

20158.4

Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976

1976

Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony

2024

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

20255.0

... Sings Dylan II

20157.8

Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film

2019

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017

2018

Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center

2024

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

2025

Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley

20247.5

Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland

Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland

We Shall Overcome

19897.0

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

19945.7

An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

1986

Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley

2016