Word: baez
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...people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince of protest when he delivered his new song, Hurricane. Also on hand: Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Ronee Blakley and Roberta Flack. Sixty miles away in the Clinton, N.J., Correctional Institution, Carter listened to the concert by telephone-and continued to wait for the Governor to act on his appeal for a retrial...
...group" is a comfortable array of friends, mostly old with a few new -Folksinger Joan Baez, ex-Byrd Roger McGuinn, Nashville Star Ronee Blakley and even Poet Allen Ginsberg. "We were all very close," Dylan told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "We had this fire going ten years ago, and now we've got it burning again...
Free and Loose. It became apparent that Dylan, now 34, has not been this free and loose since the days when he was putting folk rock on the map, way back in 1965. He seemed most carefree when he and Baez joined to sing such old Dylan classics as Blowin' in the Wind and I Shall Be Released. And why not? As they put their heads together in front of the mike, Joan would put her arm around Bob, mop his brow, kiss his cheek. Most important were several new songs that indicate that the creative fires...
...Baez did not seem at ease. She was very sensitive to the crowd, sometimes even responding to the things people shouted out. "Do you remember Newport?" "Yeah, I remember Newport. All that madonna stuff. What a bore." The audience was content to listen to her but she was jumpy, assuring everyone not to worry, her would be back soon. "I've never been to a rock concert before, do people sing along at these things?" -- she was a little bit bitchy. The material was exactly what you would expect: "Joe Hill," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down...
...entire revue sang Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land," lending the show a people's bicentennial tone without being too corny. Baez discouraged requests for an encore, "because we don't know any more songs." And the crowd thinned out, satiated by the three-hour show, emotionally drained by two hours of Dylan...