Some of the most gorgeous lines ever written. I tear up every damn time: Now I see you standing With brown leaves falling all around And snow in your hair Now you're smiling out the window Of that crummy hotel Over Washington Square Our breath comes out white clouds Mingles and hangs in the air Speaking strictly for me We both could have died then and there
oh man.. this song stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it (probably from some compilation album they used to sell in the 70's) - such a voice.. I couldn't help but tear up.. and it still has that effect
This song always brings me to tears. It is hauntingly beautiful. She has always been such a treasure with her pure and stunning voice. Joni, Judy and Joan were the ultimate folk singers back in the day. Each beautiful and so very talented. Yes, this is her song about Dylan and their failed love affair. Heartbreaking🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
This is one of those songs where you remember exactly where you were when you first heard it. The lyrics came like poetry and the story unfolded in your mind. Outstanding.
It's so funny you should say that, because it's absolutely true: I do remember it and being stunned. It washes over you like an avalanche of beauty, emotion, passion and wit that's unmatched by any other song I know.
Even though it was about Bob Dylan, just the general tone of the lyrics can be relatable. Someone you loved and lost gets back in touch with you out of the blue. You meet with them and "It's all come back too clearly, yes I loved you dearly..." while you're speaking with them. Then you wished they'd never reached out to you.
The irony is that no one interprets Dylan's songs better than Baez. She did an album of Dylan covers - absolute classics. And he did break her heart, very cruelly. He has since acknowledged - though not to her - that he handled their breakup very poorly.
People seldom mention Joan's amazing guitar skills, so kudos to you. She's quite simply an amazing guitarist. She's also an amazing human being who has been active in so many causes that I couldn't name them all. She was arrested and sent to jail for protesting the Viet Nam War. The charges were Disturbing the Peace. She said, "I was trying to disturb the war." In case it wasn't obvious, she's one of my heroes. BTW Dylan loves this song.
First time listening this song in 1975 when my English was rudimentary, I couldn't understand the whole song but was totally enthralled by the beauty of her voice and guitar. ❤❤
Joan covered many of Dylan’s songs with hr beautiful and, to my generation, instantly recognizable voice. She actually has an entire album of Dylan covers which is gorgeous. She was the Queen of folk music starting in 1961 or so and gave BobDylan a big boost in his career by having him tour with her. I think she felt betrayed by him because when he hit big around 1965 or so, she was expendable. Also she wanted him to be more of an active fighter for civil rights and against the war, and Dylan was not interested. He let his music speak for himself, whereas Baez was in the front ranks of the protest movement. Around 80 at this point, she is still a beautiful lady who now concentrates on her painting.
Odetta, another amazing folk singer, and one of Joan's mentors, also put out an album of Dylan covers. There's an awesome video of Joan Baez and Odetta doing a blues improv duet sometime around the mid 1980s. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mCNtJ3LGBdM.html
Many years ago Joan Baez serenaded my class under our window. She was giving a free concert underneath a tree less than 50 feet away and our.absolute ass of a teacher refused to let us go, promising to FAIL any student who left.I have never hated a professor more in my life.
In this song, Baez captures what it's like to experience a beautiful love and then watch that love shatter. As y'all noted, the imagery she uses is amazing.
Both of your reactions hit the nail on the head! Joan was madly in love with him, and Bob Dylan broke her heart! Joan is one of the best folk singers of her time and knew how to make and sing songs from her poetry! Really and truly and great writer of poetry...
Fun fact: Dylan was "calling from a booth in the Midwest" to get Joan's opinion on some lyrics he had just written. They were for a song called "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts". A great song that Joan also covered. It's a long story-telling song. Dylan only performed it live once, and he had the lyrics taped to the back of his guitar and still skipped a verse. Joan performed it live from memory and it's one of my favorites.
This song has broken my heart over and over since she did it. It's now tied forever to my first husband....he was a complicated person of great intelligence, heart and beauty...and I left him because he would not stop drinking, broke my own heart to save my life...watched him from a distance....while he drank himself to death. He died on the couch of the home we had owned together...with a drink in his hand and a letter I had written him 20 years before.
Joan introduced Bob to the public by letting him perform at her concerts. My folks saw him in NY with her in ‘63 and didn’t know who the guy “ with the bad voice” was.
@@heidisprouse4290 For me, in his studio work, the rawness and in and out of tune quality of his voice seems to perfectly match the vibe of his lyrics, along with his harmonica and guitar playing. As for his live performances, pretty much everything I've heard was a disappointment, certainly later in his career.
Joan Baez Beautiful voice, Beautiful Talent. There were also two other ladies with equally beautiful talent who first showed up on the scene just a little later - Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell
My parents knew Joni Mitchell when she was Joni Anderson. Her ex-husband sang at their wedding about 5 months before she married him. Dad was a grad student at Wayne State University in Detroit when Joni and Chuck were living in midtown at the Verona on the corner of Cass and Ferry and performing in bars and coffeehouses. My mom was singing at the same bars and coffeehouses around the time all four of them met each other.
I believe that Dylan felt overwhelmed by the adoration of the folk crowds and their insistence that he continue to be their spokesman and Joan was part of that. He broke out by turning to the electric guitar and writing what interested him. He left that scene and Joan. I'm sure that she was shocked and didn't see it coming. Beautiful song. She didn't need anyone. Her talent was her own and still is.
Although her lyric talked about him coming onto the scene 'already a legend', Baez was already a huge star internationally, not just for her music, but her activities and campaigning in the Civil Rights movement with Dr King, and when Dylan came along he somewhat flew on her coat-tails for awhile, and was supported and promoted by her.
Love that you are finally listening to Joan. Check out "A Song for David" written for her husband who was imprisoned for dodging the draft. Another hauntingly beautiful song and yes, her poetry is amazing.
I was privileged to see her live in the Boston commons back in the 70s, I will never forget how her pure voice echoed off the skyscrapers all around. Brilliant!☮️❤️
Last weekend, Joni Mitchell performed at the Newport Folk Festival. It was her first public performance since before her aneurysm in 2015. I was in tears as I thought her musical career was over, and to see her come back after the setback she had is nothing less than phenomenal. Her performance was presided over by Brandi Carlisle and a couple dozen other musicians. He voice is very different now, but hearing her songs sung in the voice of an old woman adds poignancy. Videos of the performance are on RU-vid. You might consider seeing her sing "Both Sides Now" at this performance.
Joni Mitchell's fellow Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot doesn't sound like he did in his prime either. 95% of people who have an abdominal aortic aneurysm like he did in 2002 don't live to tell about it. He also had a minor stroke in 2007 that prevented him from playing the guitar for 6 months.
Joni Mitchell's ex-husband Chuck Mitchell sang at my parents wedding about 5 months before he married Joni. Dad was a grad student at Wayne State University at the time, and became friends with Chuck and Joni at The Alcove Bar on Woodward Ave. in Detroit near campus where they frequently performed in the mid to late 60s. Chuck and Joni divorced early in 1967 about a year before I was born.
Saw Joan live a couple of years ago, she apologised for only being at 50% due to having a cold, her 50% blew many other artists 100%clean out of the water. It was a stunning concert by a very talented and beautiful lady.
While Joan and I were on opposing sides over the Vietnam War, She, a war protester, and I, a soldier that returned from Vietnam at 19, I always loved her music. My favorite album she made is: Where are you now my son? It gives a brutally honest view from the other side of our war there. Side two has one song. It's called Windrose and is the most beautiful and relaxing, soul relaxing, music I know. It's perfect for thinking about what she shows us on side one. I'm 73 and it still leaves me, cleansed.
Wonderful song about a real-life relationship. Her voice is superb. Back in the 1960s she was my favourite female singer. She espoused so many worthwhile causes and was one of the leaders of the 'protest' movement, as was Bob Dylan at the time. She sang a whole range of traditional folk songs and protest songs. Still gives me chills to hear this song again.
I was able to see Joan Baez live many years ago. Her voice could raise the hair on the back of your neck. This song is my personal favourite. It beings me to tears every time I hear it. A beautiful ballad of lost love.
Such a talent and she's still going. Her guitar work is stunning. She lays it all out on the line. Lots of good suggestions. More Dylan, of course. Many thanks.
Finally! I've been asking you to do this for a long time! Now, break out that Bob Dylan Lyrics Book that I sent you and get to reacting more Bob! You two "teachers" don't have a clue what your missing when you don't react to Bob! Obviously Joan knew he was a Phenomenon! Get with it! You have the Book! Ding Ding! 🤔😐😎
For real!!honestly, Judas Priest's version is amazing!! I like this original,but Rob has a powerful voice that really makes it awesome.😄seriously consider it,you won't be sorry.✌out.🙂
Baez sang a tribute to Janis Joplin, a song written by her sister, Mimi Farina, "In The Quiet Morning". You'll enjoy this one as I know your appreciation for Janis as well as Joan's vocals.
The next to last time I saw BAez was over 20 years ago in Staten Island. She talked about her sister, told that right before she died she wanted to see Joan in concert and they arranged for a bed to be put in the balcony so she could attend-and she did. And then she sang In the Quiet Morning. The last time I saw her was her retirement tour a couple years ago.
When I saw this pop up on youtube, I was like... WOW, this is one of my top ten favorite songs of the entire 70s decade. Love this reaction to one of the best songs ever written.
Oh, a big Yes, yes for this one and for Joan Baez. The records of hers in my parents' collection are a significant part of the music-scape of my childhood.
Old school folk music commin' down. Love Joan Baez haven't her anything by her in years. She's contemporary of Judy Collins and Pete Segar. Should really listen to some Judy Collins, amazing crystalline soprano voice, Both Sides Now, Albatross, Send in the Clowns.
More Judy Collins: "Someday Soon" featuring Stephen Stiils, and "My Father". She's also a great interpreter of Leonard Cohen: " Bird on a Wire" is a great start.
When I hear Joan's voice it always reminds me of her soundtrack in "Silent running" with Bruce Dern in the leading actors role, especially "Rejoice in the sun" ... her voice is outstanding ... if you've heard her once you 'd never forget her again ...
That voice, that story, those words, that guitar - thanks for killing me. Happy Saturday. Brilliant reaction, both of you. I saw 'em both, against all expectations, not long after this came out, Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, Toronto, '75. Effing exquisite. Agony, ecstasy. Nice knowin' y'all. 8''>)
Joan walked the walk in the anti war movement being arrested for telling draftees they didn't have to go and to resist and offering connections to Canada
Joan Baez is a huge, huge talent who has a really pure soprano voice. You might also want to check out: "I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer," "Fountain of Sorrow" and "One Day at a Time". Pure perfection!
I'm a big fan of Joan's early folk ballads. For example, check our her haunting version of "House of the Rising Sun". It was my introduction to that song, several years before The Animals came out with their version. Same song but two completely different vibes.
True story. In 1973, my university student entertainment committee sponsored Joan Baez for a concert that ended up being held off campus on a high school football field next to the city incinerator, due to political interference preventing her from performing on campus or in any alternative public venue off campus in an area of what was then over 2 million people. This was the tail end of the Vietnam War and Watergate was just warming up. In any event, Joan has all of us come from the stands and sit in a semicircular pattern on the grass, and with just her guitar, she performed for two hours. One of the songs she performed was this one. The title struck in my memory, as when it was released two years later, I recognized it instantly! I bought the album, too! I do love this song because it shows off Joan’s musical instrument at its best. An indelible memory!
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - Great storytelling, ya'll will love it. Now I gotta go watch yesterday's movie reaction (it's gonna be SO good!)
One of my favourits singers. Joan´s voice is magical! Joan has recordet amazing cover versions of Let your love flow and Brothers of arms. These you must listen to. 🎸🎤💯🙂
The live performance of this song by Blackmore's Night is excellent. The singing by Candace Night is superb and the guitar work by Richie Blackmore is stunning.
One thing you have to think about is, that she is not only singing, but playing the guitar at the same time, and she is picking each note. Few people can do one. She does both. A consummate artist.
@@unclebobunclebob Honestly, I’d never heard any other version of the song, until recently - I guess, I love her version, because it was released when I was a child, and I remember hearing it - it’s a nostalgia thing, more than anything for me. But, it’s a great song, that’s been covered by many wonderful artists.
Thank you for watching this specific video. Love how you appreciate that she is a great lyricist as well as a singer and guitar player. I particularly love this video because not only does it show the best of her voice, it includes her relationship with Bob Dylan. Thanks again.
Her albums were banned on Military bases due to her anti-war views against the war in Vietnam. I had to go off base in 1972 from infantry school at Fort Jackson South Carolina to buy It. Beautiful writing and beautiful voice. Still have the album in my collection today 😊
There were a lot of good lines in the song but I think my favorite was the last where she sung "if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I've already paid". I was never a Baez fan as it was too folksy for my teenage tastes in the 60's and early 70's - that is until she came out with this song. This song won me over, plus by that time I had warmed up to Bob Dylan's old stuff which was pretty folksy too. Got a little older and broadened my musical palate.
This is my favorite artists performing her beautiful song about the love of her life and their legendary affair. Thank you for the intelligent reaction and thoughtful comments.
This song was recorded in 1974 about a call Joan received from Bob Dylan out of the blue. They had not seen each other for approximately a decade. Bob eventually invited Joan to go on tour with him which became The Rolling Thunder Revue.
Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell recorded a duet of Joan's song "Dida" on the Diamonds and Rust album. Joan had an 'A-Team' of musicians that contributed to the excellent sound of the record. Notably: Larry Carlton (played on Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Jackson and 5th Dimension albums, to name a few), Jim Gordon (Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, George Harrison...), Larry Knechtel of the Wrecking Crew, and David Paich (Michael Jackson, Elton John, Bryan Adams, Diana Ross, Steely Dan ...). There are more session players on the album that I have seen many times working for many artists. It speaks to the respect that Joan Baez has among many musicians that want to work with her. 🎸🎹🥁🎤🎷🎵🎶🎵😎
Joan Baez is not only a vocal Diva but is also a force to be reckoned with on acoustic guitar. I love her many Dylan covers such as Forever Young, Farewell Angelina, I Shall Be Released and You Ain't Goin' Nowhere plus her incredible traditional Folk Songs such as If I were A Carpenter, Silver Dagger and the best version of Amazing Grace I have ever heard.
‘There But For Fortune’ and ‘Baby Blue’ are two of the earliest that brought her to my attention in the 60s. ‘Farewell Angelina’ was written by Bob Dylan about Joan Baez but he never recorded it, Joan however made a shortened version of it.
