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Joan Baez was born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York, the second of three daughters to Dr. Albert Baez, a physicist, and Joan Bridge Baez. Her mother was English-Scotish, the daughter of an Episcopalian Minister and a professor of drama who had migrated to the United States, and her father was of Mexican parentage, the son of a minister. Her father's activities as a physicist, researcher and UNESCO consultant took him to many parts of the country, and Joan's childhood was spent first in the small town of Clarence Center, New York, and then in Redlands, California. She developed both her social consciousness and her love for music at a relatively tender age. Picking up the ukulele, Baez made her performing debut at a high school talent show when she was More... (Submit New Joan Baez Lyrics) (Submit New Joan Baez Lyrics) Review about Joan Baez Perhaps the greatest of Joanie's folk songs | Reviewer: Doug C. ------ About the song Silver Dagger performed by Joan Baez I have loved her rendition of this song since I first heard her sing it, live, in 1958. No other version by any other singer comes close to the impact Joanie's voice gives it -- her sweet yet powerful, clear-as-diamond soprano with its subtle vibrato can still summon goose flesh. Later on in her career, she would develop more range in her voice, or perhaps use the greater range that was always there, but she would never again use the purity of her high registers as effectively as in this song. It's a fine old ballad, that speaks to the condition of human beings, and our mutual disappointments in love. I don't think one needs to ascribe a feminist interpretation to it to enjoy it, or to understand it. In fact, I think doing so detracts from its simple majesty and concise statement about the limitations of love. It is enough to let the pure artistry of the words, the music and Joanie's voice enter your heart like a silver dagger. amazing | Reviewer: Becca ------ About artist/band Joan Baez Joan has captured the hearts of many people young and old with her lyrics, and her beliefs. I believe her music will carry her on for ever. It moves you, and she sings from the heart. She is a truelly amazing woman. Thanks for Singing Joe Hill in Bayfield, Joan! | Reviewer: AnotherWob ------ About the song Joe Hill performed by Joan Baez One of my earliest memories is of folks coming to my parents house on a weekend evening, bringing guitars and mandolins and banjos. They'd sing Joe Hill, Solidarity Forever (all the verses!) and so many songs that I love. They shaped my life - friends and songs. Thanks for keeping the songs alive, Joan! Awesome | Reviewer: Vinnette ------ About the song No Man Is an Island performed by Joan Baez This song is beyond words to explain its beauty both lyrics and music. I am entralled by it and I would like permission from the artist to sing it for a festival if I should be lucky to be selected as a contestant. Great artist you are Ms Joan Baez! Best wishes and continued success. "just" a four letter word | Reviewer: lee ------ About the song Love Is a Four-Letter Word performed by Joan Baez Dylan likes to lurk in the shadows of meaning, actually play in the shadows of meaning to be more accurate. The title "four letter word" sounds like disappointment, coming back from belief in the healing, salvation quality of love, and seeing that the hope of expectations was created by him and from nowhere else. This is a very sane and open view of reality, because we are mostly assigning blame to so-called external conditions for our own disappointments, without realizing that we are everything we experience. So the conclusion of the song, seeing that "love is just a four letter word" is not a statement of resignation or cynicism. Rather it is a statement of fact, that the meaning of love is assigned out of hope or fear by us, and in reality in fact, it's just a word that has four letters. Period. the unwashed phenomenon | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Diamonds and Rust performed by Joan Baez I love old Joan singing "if you're offering me diamonds and rust... ... well, I'll take the diamonds!" She is very touching, and Dylan was never so kind to her in his songs. But when she sings Baby Blue, imitating Dylan's voice with a delighted sarcastic glint in her eyes... she really looks like a winner. He's Right and He's Wrong | Reviewer: Mike ------ About the song Love Is a Four-Letter Word performed by Joan Baez Yes it is a great song, one of Dylans' best, but it's a temporary piece for all of us who get bitter with life when love falls upon a bare rock. But it isn't the whole truth. Dylan didn't believe the title either. He married at least twice and has never stopped singing about love, not all of it negatively. If you believe the tabloids he never stopped falling in love either. So...hey, wait til the despair passes - then go out and fall in love again. Sing the song on your way home but get up in the morning ready for more. Faith and Hope first and then you'll find Charity. Dylan, you old cynic you, write a reprise, tell us what you really think. Old memories surface | Reviewer: JB Matthews ------ About the song Donna Donna performed by Joan Baez At 10:00 Pat Garvey called me as i was drifting to sleep. Wanting the lyrics to this song. Now, I'm thrilled as Pat had had a stroke and is partially paralyed on the left side and been in recovery homes for several years unable to play guitar or sing his own songs. It tells me that his memory is coming back as well as his abilities to talk and move around more. My old sweet memories :) | Reviewer: Amer ------ About the song Donna Donna performed by Joan Baez My mom use to sing this song for me befor i sleep when i was 4 years old, now im 29 and my mom pass away 7 years ago:( i love this song so much and it made me cray to hear it after ally thoes years! such an amazing meaningful song :) Memory of old days | Reviewer: Miftah al Zaman ------ About the song Donna Donna performed by Joan Baez First, I knew only the instrumental play of this song as the part of compilations : Soft & Beautiful. This song was one of my favorites. The music is so melodius and beautiful, and the lyrics are also inspiring. I used to listen to this song when I was at junior high, at the time when parents were still there. Nice memory of mine. Now they have all gone and this song is here reminding me to them. Silvewing | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Donna Donna performed by Joan Baez I don't know the song's lyrics when I first hear it but I love it at the first time, it's like a song from far away . Yes, you must learn to fly to treasures the freedom. Everyone have wings of their own, only the one who loves freedom will try to fly. Thank you . mystery song | Reviewer: Gail White ------ About the song Danger Waters performed by Joan Baez I always loved this song, but never understood the lyrics until I saw them printed here. The words "tortoise boy" particularly mystified me. I wonder if this is a Caribbean song? Anyway, it's beautiful as she sings it. Www.gailwhite.org lifelong companions | Reviewer: Franz ------ About the song Love Song to a Stranger performed by Joan Baez There are a couple of songs that from the moment you hear them first stay with you your whole life long, expressing a certain feeling and articulating and influencing the moods you're in; and you keep on listening to them frequently. For me, Joan Baez sings some of them. And of these, Lovesong to a stranger is one of the best, equal to 'Diamonts and Rust' and 'Forever young'. We should all live by these words | Reviewer: Sherrie Jones ------ About the song No Man Is an Island performed by Joan Baez I first hear this song when I attended school briefly in the Caribbean. It was sang at morning devotions, I thought it was silly , but now that I am back in the USA, I finally understand the song. The words are powerful and a will bring tears to your eyes This is not an opera | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 -- Aria performed by Joan Baez So, in response to another reviewer here, why does it matter whether or not the singer "has an operatic voice"? Seems her voice is perfectly suited to the piece, ESPECIALLY since she may not have a cookie cutter "operatic" voice. Also, is this piece done in opera houses? Why would she be on an opera house stage, singing about dead opera singers? Anyone? Sigh. That last bit was me sighing, by the way. Poor, poor dead opera singers. Apparently, she's singing for you. mariah samad STF | Reviewer: Rom ------ About the song Donna Donna performed by Joan Baez I first heard this song being played by a very beautiful girl maybe her name is Mariah Samad, an upper six Sekolah Tun Fatimah JB in early 70s. She sang this song as she played the guitar. I thought the song was as beautiful as the singer.... and I still love this song to this day. A haunting performance | Reviewer: Brian ------ About the song Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 -- Aria performed by Joan Baez This is a very early recording of Joan Baez in the Vanguard Records catalogue. Joan Baez does not have an operatic voice. Yet, her performance gives the piece a haunting feel. When I hear it I have visions of a once great city built during a boom in the heart of the Amazon. The only inhabitants now are Amazonian Indians. It is evening, there is a mist in the air. I see Joan, standing on an empty stage in a glorious opera house, now lost in a era now long gone. There is no audience, only the ghosts of great opera singers, now long dead. Yet there is a beauty. The jungle is slowly resurrecting itself where it had been destroyed by profiteers seeking riches from rubber trees. There is joy in the natural return to balance. I don't listen to it very much these days. Other voices have stepped into the spotlight. Yet whenever I see this art song title, I always hear Joan Baez before any of the more developed voices who have sung it. Love This! | Reviewer: Oboque ------ About the song Donna Donna performed by Joan Baez I love this song! I heard this for the very first time, when an Indonesian film entitled 'GIE' took it as one of the soundtrack. And, you know, this song has built up my spirit and my sense of nationalism. Great! Remember, Whoever treasures freedom, Like a swallow has learned to fly.. One of those truths that is stranger than fiction | Reviewer: Penny ------ About the song Love Is a Four-Letter Word performed by Joan Baez I had to listen to this song many times before I really got it. It is a sad truth about love. When you fall in love you think it is forever and that nothing can ever come between you until it does and then love just becomes another four letter word. This song really says it all. We travel through life and experience many different loves and in the end they all become four letter words because nothing lasts forever. Beautiful and very sad song... | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti performed by Joan Baez it is about 2 men that were executed even though they were innocent. On August 23, 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation declaring, "any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti." Dukakis said, "We are not here to say whether these men are guilty or innocent. We are here to say that the high standards of justice, which we in Massachusetts take such pride in, failed Sacco and Vanzetti." Their controversial trial attracted enormous international attention, with critics accusing the prosecution and presiding Judge Webster Thayer of improper conduct, and of allowing anti-Italian, anti-immigrant, and anti-anarchist sentiment to prejudice the jury. Prominent Americans such as Felix Frankfurter and Upton Sinclair publicly sided with citizen-led Sacco and Vanzetti committees in an ultimately unsuccessful opposition to the verdict. Sacco's and Vanzetti's execution elicited mass-protests in New York, London, Amsterdam and Tokyo, worker walk-outs across South America, and riots in Paris, Geneva, Germany and Johannesburg. May they rest in peace!!!! You could review the artist/band Joan Baez in Biography page You could review Joan Baez album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Joan Baez song by clicking the song which you like  Download "Joan Baez" Music | |
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