Joan Baez deserves the Nobel Prize

Several years ago, when a lot of people started campaigning for Pete Seeger to get the Nobel Peace Prize, my reaction was, no the musician who really deserves it is Joan Baez.

When I was a kid, and I'm talking around 1960, one of my aunts had Baez's first album, and then my brother got the 2nd one and the third one, "In Concert."  My first time seeing her was at Bob Dylan's Halloween show at Philharmonic.  The next day we went to the first Broadside Hoot at the Village Gate, and saw Ochs, Andersen, LaFarge, Len Chandler, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tom Paxton, Julius Lester, Pete Seeger (who I'd seen a few times before), and Ramblin' Jack also stopped by and I might've left some people out.  That still was one of the most amazing musical weekends I ever had and its effect on me was huge.  I later went to a solo Baez show, though I can't remember where it was, but saw her at various peace rallies including one with Martin Luther King at the original Madison Square Garden when it was on (I think) 23rd Street.  I then saw her on the Rolling Thunder Review at the Hartford show, and went to see her in the '80s (or maybe '90s) here in Philly.