The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25160   Message #293280
Posted By: Uncle Jaque
07-Sep-00 - 11:42 PM
Thread Name: Thank God for Joan Baez!
Subject: RE: Thank God for Joan Baez!
Ahh, Joannie! I was so much in love with her as a teenager growing up in the Mt.s of NH in the early '60s, and also pretty much wore out a couple of her albums. The woman who became my Wife looked and sang a little like her when we met, and that may have contributed to our being together these past 28 years. I used to sing "Donna Donna" at the top of my lungs while going like hell on my motorcycle through the mountains... It was sad when she began to sing nothing but "protest" songs, and politics seemed to consume her. There were surely plenty of things worthy of protest back then, but so were there things worthy of celebration.. Joannie seemed to get so terribly myopic in a negative and bitter sort of way, it grieved me sore. I havn't heard her recently, but it seems that the last time i did she'd lost a lot of range, as we tend to do with age. I like to remember her the way she was prior to her "calling" to political activisim.