Word: baez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe in war. I do not believe in the weapons of war. I am not going to volunteer the 60% of my year's income tax that goes to armaments. I am no longer supporting my portion of the arms race. Sincerely yours-Joan C. Baez...
Some of her work, like Bury Me in My Overalls, has become so charcoal-mellowed familiar that it is assumed to be true folk music. And of course she is a liberal and a ban-the-bomber. She wrote What Have They Done to the Rain, which Joan Baez and Pete Seeger have made into an international elegy...
...Club 47 to hear the music of McKenzie's spiritual heirs: Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band. On washtub, kazoo, stovepipe, scrub board and comb, Kweskin's band plays old-fashioned "good time" music that folk faddists have pronounced the most culturally significant phenomenon since Joan Baez...
Salt & Pepper. At the Memorial, the first order of business was a program of professional entertainment. Folk Singers Joan Baez, Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops against civil rights demonstrations. Author James Baldwin, Actors Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston made appearances. And onetime Folies-Bergère Star Josephine Baker looked out at the biracial crowd and snapped satisfiedly: "Salt and pepper-just what it should...
...dozen musicians including concert star Joan Baez, the Charles River Valley Boys, and the Jim Keveskin Jug Band had attracted a quiet crowd of some 150 sunbathers when the MDC officers drove up and scattered them. Miss Baez had appeared at the Donnelly Memorial Theatre Saturday night...