When she was 8, at her aunt's behest, Baez attended a concert by folk musician Pete Seeger, and found herself strongly moved by his music.

It found Baez beginning to update her image ( which she would continue to do on subsequent releases ) by including songs like " Children of the Eighties " ( her own composition, written for the children born after the 1960s ) alongside old fan favorites like " A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall " and " Farewell Angelina ".

The bottom line is that Any Day Now, like Joan and David's Album, found Baez at an intensely inspirational and creative peak.

Although a songwriter herself, Baez is generally regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, having recorded songs by The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Leonard Cohen, and many others.

The song has been recorded by Shirley Collins & Davy Graham ( also by herself and with The Young Tradition ), Marty Haugen, Anonymous 4, Joan Baez, Martyn Bates ( of Eyeless in Gaza ) and Max Eastley, Joan Osborne, Baltimore Consort, Angelo Branduardi ( Italian version titled " Il ciliegio ", French version " Le cerisier ", Spanish version " El cerezo "), the Clancy Brothers ( as " When Joseph Was an Old Man "), Judy Collins, José Feliciano, Emmylou Harris, Mary Hopkin ( as B-side of the single " Mary had a Baby / Cherry Tree Carol "), the King's College Choir, Cindy Kallet, Magpie Lane, Colin Meloy, the Chad Mitchell Trio, Nowell Sing We Clear, Pentangle, Peter Paul and Mary, Jean Ritchie, Casey Stratton, Bob Rowe, John Rutter with the Cambridge Singers, the Poor Clares from New Orleans titled " Cherry Tree Carol " on their album Songs for Midwinter, by the English musician Sting on his 2009 album If on a Winter's Night, by Annie Lennox on her 2010 album A Christmas Cornucopia and by Kerfuffle as " Cherry Tree Carol " on their Midwinter album Lighten the Dark.

Baez requested Smith to send her a recording of her songs, including " Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You ", which Baez subsequently began performing herself.

During the mid-to late-1980s, the label became home to such Baby Boomer icons as Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul and Mary and Eric Andersen, most of whom had previously been without record deals during the years prior.

* January 9 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist

** A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war ( they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam ).

Joan Chandos Baez () ( born January 9, 1941 as Joan Chandos Báez ) is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician, and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace, and environmental justice.

From the early-to-mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival, where she introduced her audiences to the then-unknown Bob Dylan ( the two became romantically involved in late 1962, remaining together through early 1965 ), and was emulated by artists such as Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt.

On October 14, 2009, PBS aired an episode of its documentary series, American Masters, entitled, Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound.

Chums is a popular site for student performances and concerts, including Tracy Chapman, Joan Baez, Matt Pond PA, and Genesis ( notable as their first American performance ).

They have been sung by prominent 20th century French vocalists, including Marianne Oswald, Yves Montand, and Édith Piaf, as well as by the later American singers Joan Baez and Nat King Cole.

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan were primary figures in the early-1960s American folk music revival.

Korean music: In the early 1970s, a genre called t ' ong guitar developed, performed by singer-songwriters inspired by the likes of American Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

The tour was headlined by a mixture of British and Irish artists – Sting, The Police, Peter Gabriel and U2 – with American and Canadian musicians Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, Joan Baez, The Neville Brothers and Bryan Adams.

* The traditional tune of " The Great Silkie " of Sule Skerry, which is recorded by American folksinger Joan Baez as " Silkie " in her second album Joan Baez, Vol.

In 1986, his third book came: " From May Flower to the Song of Peace "; a work on American protest folk music of sixties, centered around the singer Joan Baez.

" Copies of the email reached American mathematical physicist John Baez, and on October 23 he created a discussion thread about the Bogdanovs ' work on the Usenet newsgroup sci. physics. research, titled " Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?

Black recorded two duets with American folk singer Joan Baez in the spring of 1995, for Baez's album Ring Them Bells.

* David Harris ( protester ) ( born 1946 ), American author, journalist and anti-war activist ( noted draft resister during Vietnam War ), married folk singer Joan Baez

An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she was influential to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.

Though inspired by American protest artists like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, nueva trova criticized the abuses of the United States government and its allies.

People and events from the counterculture covered include Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Malvina Reynolds, Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, Jonathan Kozol, George Dennison, and Ivan Illich.

Renaldo and Clara is a 1978 American film directed by Bob Dylan and starring Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan, and Joan Baez.

The same year, at the Newport Folk Festival, Makem and Joan Baez were named the most promising newcomers on the American folk scene.

Joan Baez / 5 is a 1964 album by American folk singer Joan Baez.

Baez later claimed that she felt she would be given more artistic license at a more " low key " label.

After eleven years with Vanguard, Baez decided in 1971 to cut ties with the label that had released her albums since 1960.

After Gulf Winds ( 1976 ), an album of entirely self-composed songs, and From Every Stage ( 1976 ), a live album that had Baez performing songs " from every stage " of her career, Baez again parted ways with a record label when she moved to CBS Records for Blowin ' Away ( 1977 ) and Honest Lullaby ( 1979 ).

In early 2007, Sedaka signed his first recording contract in more than two decades with Razor and Tie Records, a small-but-growing, New York-based independent label with a talent roster that also includes Joan Baez, Vanessa Carlton, Foreigner, Joe Jackson, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Portrait began in 1976 as a sister label of Epic ; its initial signings were Joan Baez, Burton Cummings, and the McCrarys.

Baez left the label after the release of her 1979 Honest Lullaby album ; she later admitted in her 1987 memoir, And a Voice to Sing With, that she regretted signing with the label, describing her having left her previous label ( A & M ) for Portrait as " the stupidest career move I ever made ".

Though Baez was reportedly offered a contract with Columbia at the time, she chose to go instead with the independent Vanguard label, hoping for increased artistic license.

( Between 2001 and 2005, they reissued remastered versions of Baez ' thirteen original albums with the label.

In her 1987 memoir, " And a Voice to Sing With ", Baez speculated that she was likely dropped from her record label due to a political disagreement she'd had with the then president of CBS Records.

Hits: Greatest and Others was a 1973 compilation Vanguard put together at the end of Joan Baez ' association with their label.

The Joan Baez Lovesong Album was a 1976 compilation Vanguard put together in their series of Joan Baez reissues, following Baez ' 1972 departure from their label.

* October 16 – Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction center.

He has also written music for school bands, as well as a number of folk musicians, most notably Joan Baez ( for whom he also orchestrated and arranged three albums during the mid-1960s, Noël, Joan, and Baptism ).

2, and Joan Baez in Concert all achieved gold record status, and stayed on the charts of hit albums for two years.

Baez has had a popular hit song with " Diamonds & Rust " and hit covers of Phil Ochs's " There but for Fortune " and The Band's " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ".

Baez has performed publicly for over 53 years, releasing over 30 albums.

When designing the poster for the performance, Baez considered changing her performing name to either Rachel Sandperl, the surname of her long-time mentor, Ira Sandperl or Maria from the song " They Call the Wind Maria ".

Baez was later asked back and began performing twice a week for $ 25 per show.

The performance generated substantial praise for the " barefoot Madonna " with the otherworldly voice, and it was this appearance that led to Baez signing with Vanguard Records the following year although Columbia Records tried to sign her first.

Baez playing at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom | March on Washington in August 1963.

Her true professional career began at that 1959 Newport Folk Festival ; following that appearance, she recorded her first album for Vanguard, Joan Baez ( 1960 ), produced by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers, who produced many albums by folk artists.

Though primarily an albums artist, several of Baez ' singles have charted and the first being her 1965 cover of Phil Ochs ' " There but for Fortune ", which became a mid-level chart hit in the U. S. and a top-ten single in the United Kingdom.

Deciding to experiment after having exhausted the folksinger-with-guitar format, Baez turned to Peter Schickele, a classical music composer, who provided classical orchestration for her next three albums: Noël ( 1966 ), Joan ( 1967 ) and Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time ( 1968 ).

With Come from the Shadows ( 1972 ), Baez switched to A & M Records, where she remained for four years and six albums.

Joan Baez wrote and performed " The Story of Bangladesh " at the Concert for Bangladesh, Madison Square Garden in 1971.

Baez ' first album for A & M, Come from the Shadows, was recorded in Nashville, and included a number of more personal compositions, including " Love Song to a Stranger " and " Myths ", as well as work by Mimi Farina, John Lennon, and Anna Marly.

In 1980, Baez was given honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees by Antioch University and Rutgers University for her political activism and the " universality of her music ".

Baez also played a significant role in the 1985 Live Aid concert for African famine relief, opening the U. S. segment of the show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Baez then proceeded to sing a cappella for the nearly four thousand gathered.

In October of that year, Baez became the first major artist to perform in a professional concert presentation on Alcatraz Island ( a former U. S. federal prison ) in San Francisco, California, in a benefit for her sister Mimi's Bread and Roses organization.

In 2003, Baez was also a judge for the third annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists ' careers.

Bob Dylan holds a cue card in the music video for " Subterranean Homesick Blues ". The film features Joan Baez, Donovan and Alan Price ( who had just left The Animals ), Dylan's manager Albert Grossman and his road manager Bob Neuwirth ; Marianne Faithfull, John Mayall, Ginger Baker, and Allen Ginsberg may also be glimpsed in the background.