Fact #38917
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Short story:
Joan Baez enters the Billboard albums chart in the USA with Any Day Now, an album consisting entirely of her versions of Bob Dylan songs. It will peak at No30 during a five-week run.
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Bob Dylan : I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Joan Baez. She was the queen of folk music then and now. She took a liking to my songs and brought me with her to play concerts where she had crowds of thousands of people enthralled with her beauty and voice. People say, ‘What are you doing with that ragtag, scrubby looking waif?’ And she’d tell the audience in no uncertain terms, ‘Now, you’d better be quiet and listen to your songs.’ We even played a few of them together.
Joan Baez is a tough-minded as they come. … A free, independent spirit. Nobody can tell her what to do if she doesn’t want to do it. I learned a lot of things from her. A woman of devastating honesty. For her kind of love and devotion, I could never repay that back.
(Source : speech at The Musicales Person Of The Year Event, February 2015)
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Joan Baez is a tough-minded as they come. … A free, independent spirit. Nobody can tell her what to do if she doesn’t want to do it. I learned a lot of things from her. A woman of devastating honesty. For her kind of love and devotion, I could never repay that back.
(Source : speech at The Musicales Person Of The Year Event, February 2015)