Features
Tuesday, December 9 2008
In Praise of Older Women: The Best Records of 2008 by Women 45 Years Old and Over
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.
Reviews
Friday, November 20 2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
A long-awaited survey of the life and times of a cultural icon.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Joan Baez: Joan Baez / Vol. 2
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.
News
Thursday, November 3 2011
Joan Baez on the new protest era: The whole world’s watching
CHICAGO — Joan Baez is calling from Paris the morning after a sold-out concert, and she’s seen the news reports coming out of Chicago. “You…
Thursday, February 11 2010
The song remains the same for Joan Baez
PASEDENA — Joan Baez was an important, albeit late, addition to Thursday night's "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the…
Tuesday, November 11 2008
On new album, folk legend Joan Baez revisits the life-affirming balladry of her debut
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."…
Tuesday, November 4 2008
Folk legend Joan Baez voices hope for tomorrow
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…
