Word: baez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faithful hummed, strummed and tapped sneakers as a single unit, outfitted not only with identical uniforms but with a mutual set of convictions that decry the injustices of war, segregation and cheating hearts. One by one, the cult's high priests (Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Odetta) filled the cloudy sky with music. And none did it with more urgency or passion than the slight blonde girl in the pink dress who hoisted a guitar twice her size and greeted the first drops of rain with a voice that built a shelter for her audience...
...wryly exaggerated Silver Dagger Song, she displayed occasional flashes of bitter humor ("This is a sort of 'Happy Birthday, Mississippi' song," she said, introducing Hey, Nelly Nelly). More important, she exhibited a fine facility for dramatic phrasing and a rich, bell-clear alto voice stronger than Joan Baez' and in some ways more interesting. Her ecstatic audience was not surprised, for Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow no longer but a major contender...
...Joanie Baez, Petie Seeger, Burlie Ives, Won't you come and buy my tickets? Who is phony? Is it me or is it just...
There were fleeting moments on a higher plane. Operatic Soprano Anna Moffo, aglitter in gold, thrilled with a selection from La Traviata. Folk Singer Joan Baez, musically effective if a bit maudlin, dedicated All My Trials and its plea, "Hush, little baby, don't you cry," to Jacqueline Kennedy. The show crashed to a close as a huge red heart emblazoned U.S.A. LOVES L.B.J. drifted from the ceiling and the crowd chorused an Allan Sherman parody to the tune Once in Love with Amy. Sample lyric...
JUDY COLLINS #3 (Elektra). Joan Baez is still queen, but many of her subjects owe allegiance to Collins as well. Her voice is less pure, but it has body and conviction, and she has a good repertory of songs that are more indigenous to Greenwich Village than her native Colorado. In her third and best album, she sings Dylan and Seeger, but her stopper is a haunting new ballad about an ancient injustice done to a girl named Anathea, in bed, of all places...