Today in Labor History March 18, 1968: The staff of San Francisco's "progressive" rock station KMPX-FM walked out on strike citing a lack of control over programming & "hassles over the whole long-hair riff." Performers like the Rolling Stones, Joan Baez, the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead requested the station not play their music as long as the station was run by strikebreakers.
For @loewe's #MusicWomenWednesday, Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust, a song refering to her relationship with Bob Dylan. Written/composed by her in 1974 and released in 1975. My favorite Joan Baez song 💞
“Now the sun's gone to hell and
The moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms”
Funny thing to find in a grocery store … for $2.
Kidding. It was an antique shop in Pomona - which is still open for business 40 years later.
I have a few Be Bop Deluxe albums and some Python; not sure why I would have bought Joan Baez at that time, but there it is in my stacks.
Inside the double sleeve was the receipt, and stuck way in the back was the promised 7" 33 1/3 RPM single that I never noticed in all these years. It has a Woody Guthrie track on it with lyrics that bite. That man knew what was what - in 1961.
#GreatAlbums1960s - #JoanBaez – Joan Baez (1960). Before Dylan moved in, Baez was New York’s most important young interpreter of traditional folk material. Her clarion vocal delivery and assured acoustic fingerpicking enliven British broadsides (“Mary Hamilton,” “Henry Martin”), American folksongs (“Silver Dagger,” “House of the Rising Sun”), and the Mexican ballad “El Preso Nùmero Nueve.” The start of a luminous 60-year career, Baez's debut was a folk revival landmark.
"I Am a Noise," a new documentary about the iconic Joan Baez, opens in theaters on Oct. 6. Smithsonian Magazine's Jennie Rothenberg Gritz talked to Baez about her life as an activist and musician, Bob Dylan, motherhood, and her move away from the spotlight and towards her art. "I have not missed being on the stage for a second,” she says.
Part one of a three day retrospective of Woodstock.
“Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
A long
Way
From my home
Yeah, yeah”