JerryR
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My favourite Joan Baez song
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Love that gal. She's playing at the Oregon Zoo this summer.
http://www.oregonzoo.org/Concerts/index.htm
http://www.oregonzoo.org/Concerts/index.htm
6L6
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My favorite "Joanie Phony" song is her cover of Phil Ochs' "There but for Fortune".
It took me awhile to get down her hybrid Travis picking pattern on that one. I bumped into her one day a couple of years ago at Stanford Shopping Center. She was carrying a ton of full shopping bags from Nordstrom (she lives nearby in Woodside, CA).
I introduced myself and told her she'd caused me a lot of trouble by mixing up that Travis picking pattern on "There but for Fortune". She laughed and told me the picking pattern was Phil Ochs's and it drove her nuts learning it too!
Al Capp had his problems with her back in the day and I was one who had to agree. His introduction of her as "Joanie Phony" into his 'Lil Abner" comic strip netted him a lawsuit, but she didn't win and the strip continued. Preaching the line of "love is everything and who needs money" was a bit hard to stomach as she knocked down $10K per concert in the 60's (a LOT of money back then).
All that said, she sings like a bird and I love her minimalist guitar approach. And, she's still gorgeous to look at!
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It took me awhile to get down her hybrid Travis picking pattern on that one. I bumped into her one day a couple of years ago at Stanford Shopping Center. She was carrying a ton of full shopping bags from Nordstrom (she lives nearby in Woodside, CA).
I introduced myself and told her she'd caused me a lot of trouble by mixing up that Travis picking pattern on "There but for Fortune". She laughed and told me the picking pattern was Phil Ochs's and it drove her nuts learning it too!
Al Capp had his problems with her back in the day and I was one who had to agree. His introduction of her as "Joanie Phony" into his 'Lil Abner" comic strip netted him a lawsuit, but she didn't win and the strip continued. Preaching the line of "love is everything and who needs money" was a bit hard to stomach as she knocked down $10K per concert in the 60's (a LOT of money back then).
All that said, she sings like a bird and I love her minimalist guitar approach. And, she's still gorgeous to look at!
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guildzilla
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"D&R" is my favorite, too, Jerry. Easily the best song Joan Baez ever wrote, IMO. Maybe the best LP, also.
She carried that candle for Dylan a long, long time, and I'm not sure it ever went out.
She carried that candle for Dylan a long, long time, and I'm not sure it ever went out.
drive-south
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Joan will be playing at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday, Aug 2. Also appearing the same day is Judy Collings, and Pete Seeger. Pete just turned 90 and will be celebrating his B-day at Newport, along with 50,000 of his closest friends.
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Janpeter
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Dear friends of Guild and Joanie;
absolutely exhilarating to hear about Joan here; she was in Meersburg, a small town along Lake of Constance, two years ago, however I missed her then.
"There but for fortune" I like, too, one of her few own ballads; though "Sweet Sir Galahad" also is a nice one. Actually these two's and also "There but for fortune" belong my favourites, too, which I always play on my Guilds.
To tell the truth I ever was a very ambitious fan and friend of Joan Baez all the last thirty years and play nearly all songs and ballads from her two big song-books, having about 30 original LPs at home which I listen to regularly with much passion and love.
One of her last covers - the wonderful "Day after Tomorrow" from Tom Waits shows that she is still very much alive and ambitious about the struggle for a better live here on earth.
Great to hear from you all - with fondest greetings across the ocean!
Jan-Peter
absolutely exhilarating to hear about Joan here; she was in Meersburg, a small town along Lake of Constance, two years ago, however I missed her then.
"There but for fortune" I like, too, one of her few own ballads; though "Sweet Sir Galahad" also is a nice one. Actually these two's and also "There but for fortune" belong my favourites, too, which I always play on my Guilds.
To tell the truth I ever was a very ambitious fan and friend of Joan Baez all the last thirty years and play nearly all songs and ballads from her two big song-books, having about 30 original LPs at home which I listen to regularly with much passion and love.
One of her last covers - the wonderful "Day after Tomorrow" from Tom Waits shows that she is still very much alive and ambitious about the struggle for a better live here on earth.
Great to hear from you all - with fondest greetings across the ocean!
Jan-Peter
Does Anyone have tabs of that song?
(Even if I'd never achieve it, I'll try …)
Markus
(Even if I'd never achieve it, I'll try …)
Markus
markus said:Does Anyone have tabs of that song?
(Even if I'd never achieve it, I'll try …)
Markus
chordie has it here:
http://www.chordie.com/allsongsartists. ... index.html
I also have her Diamonds & Rust songbook, no tabs but 4 pages of notation.
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I saw Joan live in the UK a coupla of years back. Loadsa songs but not D&R Then she came back for an encore - still no D&R :evil: Then a second encore - no D&R By this time I'd given up all hope :roll: then she came back for a 3rd encore, and on her own, none of her backers - she sang it
Then she came back for an encore - still no D&R :evil: Then a second encore - no D&R By this time I'd given up all hope :roll: then she came back for a 3rd encore, and on her own, none of her backers - she sang it 
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D&R is superb and she also covers Bob's "Forever Young" quite well. Her voice and her simple, yet perfect guitar work influenced a ton of us wouldbes and wannabes back in the day....and still do, as a matter of fact.
And yes, look up any song on chordie.com and you should be able to find it.
Joe
And yes, look up any song on chordie.com and you should be able to find it.
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I've loved her cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down for a lonnnng time now. Stunning she is
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She just gave a FREE concert on the Santa Monica Pier on Thursday.
First half of the show with her backup string band including her son on percussion and a lefty guitarist from Ireland.
Second half solo.
Finale with band again.
And she does a mean, dead-on impression of Dylan while doing one of his songs :lol: :lol: :lol:
She had the largest turnout, by far, for a concert in that venue that I've ever seen...covered the entire pier and down on the beach north and south of the pier...in fact, her first words when she came out were 'oceans of people' ... so much for the local powers-that-be that don't want any of that 'folk' music done by performers appearing on our local Third Street Promenade. :wink: :mrgreen:
First half of the show with her backup string band including her son on percussion and a lefty guitarist from Ireland.
Second half solo.
Finale with band again.
And she does a mean, dead-on impression of Dylan while doing one of his songs :lol: :lol: :lol:
She had the largest turnout, by far, for a concert in that venue that I've ever seen...covered the entire pier and down on the beach north and south of the pier...in fact, her first words when she came out were 'oceans of people' ... so much for the local powers-that-be that don't want any of that 'folk' music done by performers appearing on our local Third Street Promenade. :wink: :mrgreen:
cjd-player
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Haven't heard that one for a long time, Jerry, and always liked it.
Thanks for posting the link.
Thanks for posting the link.
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GuildFS4612CE said:
Sure does - can't exactly remember which and she saved doing Bob's voice to the last verse - but it was a dead ringer :mrgreen:
jgmaute
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Nice to hear it again in an early version, thanks for posting.
I've heard Joan many times over the years and the last lines of D&R have changed from "I've already paid" to "I'll take the diamonds" to (after her Grammy) "I'll take the Grammy". I've always liked many of the songs she's written, "Sweet Sir Galahad" won me over the first time I heard her play it at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago back in the 60s. Other Baez written favorites include
Honest Lullabye (my mom's favorite song, she thinks the song god sent it to the wrong joan, I put it on my last CD Honest Lullabye and sing it for Mom all the time, she wants me to sing that along with I Hear You Sing Again (Ian/Guthrie) at her memorial service.
Heartfelt Line or Two
Outside the Nashville City Limits
Lovesong for a Stranger
Lovesong for a Stranger II
I heard her in concert a year ago and she was the most relaxed I've ever seen her, and in great voice. I have to admit I always prefer the concerts/sets she does along, just Joan, her voice and guitar...pretty powerful. And..I also have to admit when I'm playing her covers you'll see my Martin, not a Guild.
I've heard Joan many times over the years and the last lines of D&R have changed from "I've already paid" to "I'll take the diamonds" to (after her Grammy) "I'll take the Grammy". I've always liked many of the songs she's written, "Sweet Sir Galahad" won me over the first time I heard her play it at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago back in the 60s. Other Baez written favorites include
Honest Lullabye (my mom's favorite song, she thinks the song god sent it to the wrong joan, I put it on my last CD Honest Lullabye and sing it for Mom all the time, she wants me to sing that along with I Hear You Sing Again (Ian/Guthrie) at her memorial service.
Heartfelt Line or Two
Outside the Nashville City Limits
Lovesong for a Stranger
Lovesong for a Stranger II
I heard her in concert a year ago and she was the most relaxed I've ever seen her, and in great voice. I have to admit I always prefer the concerts/sets she does along, just Joan, her voice and guitar...pretty powerful. And..I also have to admit when I'm playing her covers you'll see my Martin, not a Guild.
Thank you for the links …
Markus
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john_kidder
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Janpeter said:
No disrespect for Joan Baez, who is a true heroine of the worlds of music and polotics, but that's a Phil Ochs tune.
Saw here here in Vancouver just a few months ago - realtively small and intimate concert, she was just great. A little whisky in the voice from age, but what a performer she always was and remains.
My favourite Joan Baez tune is her rendition of e.e. cummings' "All In Green Went My Love Riding", with music by Peter Schikele (better known as P.D.Q. Bach) - not very well known, listen (no video) here.
dlay
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She plays in Knoxville tn July 20.