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Joan Baez artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music
Just one year after her first Newport appearance, Baez released her self-titled debut and began a decades-spanning career that traversed not only American folk styles, but also a broad assortment of social issues. It would become the mark of her music that it was inextricably linked to social and political change.
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Half a century after it was founded, the Newport Folk Festival is celebrating its 50th birthday with an eclectic mix of artists, from towering figures like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez to Neko Case, The Decemberists and Mavis Staples. NPR Music will be there to webcast and broadcast the full slate of concerts, with dozens of live performances starting at noon ET on Saturday. All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen recently spoke with festival producer Jay Sweet about what's in store for the weekend celebration.
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On Day After Tomorrow, Joan Baez's first album in five years, she takes on songs written by composers as diverse as Steve Earle, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits and Patty Griffin. Here, the legendary folksinger plays songs and discusses her early Quaker influences, as well as her experience meeting Martin Luther King Jr.
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Joan Baez's sterling voice, the songs she sings and her commitment to society's underdogs have had a profound influence on American culture. Baez talks about her new record, Day After Tomorrow, and performs songs from the album at NPR's New York studio.
()Joan Baez was in her late teens when her performance at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival and her self-titled debut album of traditional folk songs thrust her into the spotlight. Four decades later, the voice on her new CD — the first from her in six years — is huskier, a bit rougher perhaps, but no less powerful. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Baez about Dark Chords on a Big Guitar.
()Writer David Hajdu is the author of the new book, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina. (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux). The book focuses on the early 1960s when the four of them changed the nature of popular music. Hajdu is also the author of the award-winning biography, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn. Hajdu also writes for The New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair.
()Half a century after it was founded, the Newport Folk Festival is celebrating its 50th birthday with an eclectic mix of artists, from towering figures like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez to Neko Case, The Decemberists and Mavis Staples. NPR Music will be there to webcast and broadcast the full slate of concerts, with dozens of live performances starting at noon ET on Saturday. All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen recently spoke with festival producer Jay Sweet about what's in store for the weekend celebration.
()A new book by David Hadju describes the heyday of folk music in Greenwich Village and the relationships between stars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Richard and Mimi Farina. NPR's Melissa Block takes a tour through today's Village with the author of Positively 4th Street, and talks to some of its denizens.
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