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...each other's arms.") It's true that songs of emotional defiance had been a sub-genre of blues. In folk music, John Jacob Niles, the Kentucky balladeer with the dramatic delivery and the pure falsetto, had written "Go Away from My Window," covered by Harry Belafonte and Joan Baez - and adapted by Dylan...
...murder of four people in 1979 became renowned for his antiviolence work, including a series of books he wrote urging children to stay away from gangs; by lethal injection; despite his claims of innocence and appeals for clemency, supported by such activists as Snoop Dogg and Joan Baez but denied by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Supreme Court; in San Quentin, Calif...
...Leventhal's credentials: pushing a scruffy 21-year-old Bob Dylan on stage for his first major concert-hall appearance; bringing Jacques Brel and Ravi Shankar to American audiences; and representing, at one time or another, every major figure of the 1950s-and-'60s folk-music revival, including Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. A producer of Alice's Restaurant and other movies, he was the inspiration for the central character of Irving Steinbloom in the 2003 film spoof A Mighty Wind...
...JOAN BAEZ, 64 The celebrated folk singer continues to tour and raise her voice in support of environmentalism...
...Among Leventhal's credentials: pushing a scruffy 21-year-old Bob Dylan onstage for his first major concert-hall appearance; bringing Jacques Brel and Ravi Shankar to American audiences; and representing, at one time or another, every major figure of the 1950s-and-'60s folk-music revival, including Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. A producer of Alice's Restaurant and other movies, he was the inspiration for the central character of Irving Steinbloom in the 2003 film spoof A Mighty Wind...