Joan Baez is an enormous talent and helped Dylan get started. Joan was on the cover of Time magazine and much better known than Dylan at the time. She marched with Martin Luther King Jr and dedicated her life to the voiceless, against the Vietnam War, for people of color, for prisoners, for women, for lgbtq...she is still active.
There were a good sized group of female singers, one of which was her, who set the tone for our generation with their beautiful work. Absolute nostalgia for who what and when of that time...