Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Báez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) is an American folk singer and songwriter, known for her distinctive vocal style as well as her outspoken political views. Her family was Quaker, and her father Albert Baez, a physicist, refused lucrative war industry jobs.

Baez's professional career began at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival and recorded her debut, Joan Baez, the following year on Vanguard Records. The album was a collection of ballads performed in a traditional style, and it sold moderately well. Her second release, Joan Baez, Vol. 2, was released in 1961. It went gold, as did 1962's Joan Baez in Concert. From the early to mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival alongside contemporaries like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell.

Like Dylan, Baez was profoundly influenced by the British Invasion and began augmenting her acoustic guitar on 1965's Farewell Angelina just after Dylan began experimenting with folk-rock. Later in the decade, Baez experimented with poetry (1968's A Journey Through Our Time) and country music (1968's Any Day Now). In 1968, Baez married David Harris, a prominent anti-Vietnam War protester who was eventually imprisoned for draft evasion. Harris, a country music fan, turned Baez towards more complex country rock influences beginning with 1969's David's Album. Her 1971 cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) was a top 10 hit in the US.

With 1972's Come from the Shadows, Baez switched to A&M Records and began flirting with mainstream pop music as well as writing her own songs for her best-selling 1975 release Diamonds & Rust. She then switched to CBS Records briefly, and then found herself without an American label for 1980's European Tour. She didn't have an American release until 1987's Recently on Gold Castle Records, and then switched to Virgin Records for 1992's Play Me Backwards. She then worked with the Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter and continued recording throughout the 90s. Her latest album is 2003's Dark Chords on a Big Guitar.

She lives in Woodside, California.

Joan Baez is not to be confused with the mathematician John Baez, her cousin.

Toured with Bob Dylan during his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour.

References

Baez, Joan. 1988. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Century Hutchinson, London. ISBN 0-7126-1827-9


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Her latest album is 2003's Dark Chords on a Big Guitar. The Blessed Hellride (2003). She then worked with the Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter and continued recording throughout the 90s. 1919 Eternal (2002). She didn't have an American release until 1987's Recently on Gold Castle Records, and then switched to Virgin Records for 1992's Play Me Backwards. Alcohol Fueled Brewtality (2001). She then switched to CBS Records briefly, and then found herself without an American label for 1980's European Tour. Stronger Than Death (2000).

With 1972's Come from the Shadows, Baez switched to A&M Records and began flirting with mainstream pop music as well as writing her own songs for her best-selling 1975 release Diamonds & Rust. Sonic Brew (1999). Her 1971 cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) was a top 10 hit in the US. Harris, a country music fan, turned Baez towards more complex country rock influences beginning with 1969's David's Album. In 1968, Baez married David Harris, a prominent anti-Vietnam War protester who was eventually imprisoned for draft evasion.

Later in the decade, Baez experimented with poetry (1968's A Journey Through Our Time) and country music (1968's Any Day Now). Like Dylan, Baez was profoundly influenced by the British Invasion and began augmenting her acoustic guitar on 1965's Farewell Angelina just after Dylan began experimenting with folk-rock. From the early to mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival alongside contemporaries like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. It went gold, as did 1962's Joan Baez in Concert.

2, was released in 1961. Her second release, Joan Baez, Vol. The album was a collection of ballads performed in a traditional style, and it sold moderately well. Baez's professional career began at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival and recorded her debut, Joan Baez, the following year on Vanguard Records.

Her family was Quaker, and her father Albert Baez, a physicist, refused lucrative war industry jobs. Joan Chandos Báez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) is an American folk singer and songwriter, known for her distinctive vocal style as well as her outspoken political views.