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Joan Baez

Last post Sat, Aug 23 2008, 7:55 PM by gotodd. 6 replies.
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  •  Fri, May 02 2008, 5:52 AM 916

    Joan Baez

    Steve's producing a Joan Baez record. Darrell Scott was called in to lend some help earlier this year. I'm sorta surprized that this hasn't been mentioned yet.
  •  Fri, May 02 2008, 11:08 AM 926 in reply to 916

    Re: Joan Baez

    Yes...I do believe we discussed this a while back (maybe in late November when they went to Tenn. to work on the recording) but it was on the New West forum.  That is probably why it hasn't appeared here from any of the "New Westers!"  Incidentally I am looking forward to giving the album a listen.  I have liked a bit of Joan's music over the years, but sometimes her voice grates on my nerves a little bit...hate to say it, but it's true for me! 


    A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us ~ Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
  •  Fri, May 02 2008, 9:32 PM 941 in reply to 926

    Re: Joan Baez

    Sorry. I'm new here. Didn't know about the other forum and I have been absent from any SE forum at all for a good while now... Since...I dunno... maybe since The Mountain. Thought I'd see where it's gone, whose still around, etc.  
  •  Wed, Aug 13 2008, 10:59 AM 3169 in reply to 941

    Re: Joan Baez

    Hi

    Thought this may be of interest to some of you, nice sound and pretty sure that's Steve on backing vocals.

    http://www.myspace.com/joanbaez

     

  •  Wed, Aug 13 2008, 12:50 PM 3170 in reply to 3169

    Re: Joan Baez

    Joan Baez is an icon to those of us who came of age in the sixties, hard to put in words what her songs and activism have meant over the years.

    Love that conversation about her trepidations about going to Nashville, resonates with the collaboration between black artists and the Steve Croppers, Duane Allmans back in those days - makes all this talk about "reaching across the aisle" in politics seem shallow.

    One of the things that impress me about SE's music - playing with Del McCoury one minute, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger the next.  Not everyone can carrry that off, or even try, that's the first step. Johnny Cash worked hard at that, maybe that's we all seem to respect him and love his music.

  •  Wed, Aug 13 2008, 8:22 PM 3176 in reply to 3170

    Re: Joan Baez

    Joan Baez and Steve Earle...how apropo...I've been waiting for this record.  I'm another aging (in physical years but fighting the rest of it all the way) flower child from the 60's...so her ballads have such special meaning to me.  Thanks, this link to her myspace is wonderful and harks back to that time.....yes indeed, politics today is shallow.  Joan Baez is authentic and credible.  Just like Steve. 
    "I got me a fearless heart"
  •  Sat, Aug 23 2008, 7:55 PM 3330 in reply to 3176

    Re: Joan Baez

    I saw Steve open for Joan in Reno in 2004...right as Revolution came out and the election was hanging...at the Robert Hawkins Amphitheater. One of the greatest and most intimate shows I've ever seen. Joan called out Steve - who promptly arrived and saluted - for a run through Jerusalem with her and that incredible band. A project between the two of them would be a beautiful connection not only of music, but history.
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