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Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

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In Praise of Older Women: The Best Records of 2008 by Women 45 Years Old and Over

by Steve Horowitz

[9.Dec.08] :. The old music-industry adage is that if a woman doesn't have a hit by the time she's 22 years old, she should probably look for another career. That's obviously a load of blarney.

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On new album, folk legend Joan Baez revisits the life-affirming balladry of her debut

by Jon Bream [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[11.Nov.08] :. They seem an unlikely pairing - Joan Baez, the crystalline-voiced queen of folk, and alt-country hero Steve Earle, the once-notorious “last of the hardcore troubadours.” But at 67, Baez...

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Folk legend Joan Baez voices hope for tomorrow

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[4.Nov.08] :. From the outset of her career a half-century ago, Joan Baez has possessed a distinctive, spine-tingling three-octave voice. A vessel of purity and a tower of strength, her soprano helped spark the...

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Slacker Uprising

by Anthony Henriques

[28.Oct.08] :. With substandard picture quality and a lack of true eye-opening material, this will be regarded as a minor work in an otherwise impressive film canon.

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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[7.Aug.08] :. It sounds beautifully naïve - the notion that if one man could get everyone in the world to sing together, there’d be a lot less war and animosity among the citizens. Even more foolhardy...

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Joan Baez to receive ‘Spirit of Americana’ Free Speech Award

by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler [PopMatters.com]

[17.Jul.08] :. The Americana Music Association has announced that cultural icon and seminal American recording artist Joan Baez will receive the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award at the...

 

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

by John G. Nettles

[28.Oct.05] :. Martin Scorsese's film is about Dylan's early life among the Mister Joneses of his era, ahead of rock and roll's learning curve and suffering the judgments of the slower kids in his class.

 

Joan Baez: The Complete A&M Recordings

by Rob Horning

[5.Dec.03] :. It’s easy to see Joan Baez as a historical artifact, a nostalgic icon capable of evoking a misty, sanitized vision of social protest without forcing one to address any of the divisive politics...

 

Joan Baez: Dark Chords on a Big Guitar

by Hank Kalet

[23.Oct.03] :. Joan Baez was an icon of the early folk-revival movement, a popular concert attraction back in the early 1960s and the patron of Bob Dylan before Dylan became the sage of his generation. Baez...

 

Joan Baez: Joan Baez / Vol. 2

by John Kreicbergs

The folk singer is a dying breed. Most pundits point to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival as the precise moment the deathblow was struck by a certain unorthodox Minnesotan with the gift of reinventing himself and his craft.