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Thread #90040   Message #1713131
Posted By: PoppaGator
08-Apr-06 - 09:56 AM
Thread Name: I just discovered Joan Baez
Subject: RE: I just discovered Joan Baez
Martin Scorsese's recent film on Bob Dylan, "No Direction Home," includes quite a bit of footage of Joan Baez, some from the sixties and more from a recent interview.

The older material is almost all performaces, both solo and duets with Bob; while no songs are included in their entirety, the excerpts are long enough to reveal the basics of Joan's guitar-playing technique and, of course, to show off her voice.

The current-day interview footage is pretty interesting, too, revealing Joan's wry attitude about her long-ago relationship (or non-relationship!) with The Bob when they were both young and stupid.

"No Direction Home" was produced for PBS (US public television) and orginally broadcast in several segments as a sort of mini-series. It's available now as a two-DVD set.