Without Joan Baez, its hard to say what the intersection of American music and social justice would look like, if it had ended up looking like anything at all. Music, of course, is not inherently ...

If you live in the city, sometimes it’s hard to escape, especially if you’re like me and don’t own a car. But music can transport you to bucolic idyll even when you’re surrounded by concrete. This is ...

Admittedly, my initial excitement about this concert was not so much directly tied to Baez herself, but to those with whom she’s been associated. She is, after all, the woman who wooed Bob Dylan, ...

Bob Dylan called it her “heart-stopping soprano,” and it's true that when Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song “We Shall Overcome,” you could believe we would, indeed, ...

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez had a complex, rocky relationship in the early 60s and into the mid-70s. She was a muse, a duet partner, and frequently the other woman. But she was talented and skillful in ...