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, Buff…
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