Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice.] Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums. Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work, having recorded many traditional songs and songs written by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record songs by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Her tumultuous relationship with Dylan later became the subject of songs by each of them and generated much public speculation. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant, and Joe Henry. Baez's songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She also recorded "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights, and the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Baez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
70 movies · 28 shows
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025·0.0
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025·5.0
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
2024·0.0
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024·7.5
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
2024·0.0
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023·6.7
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022·8.2
Ennio
2022·8.3
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021·0.0
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021·6.6
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020·1.0
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
2019·0.0
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019·7.0
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019·7.3
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019·0.0
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
2019·6.3
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
2018·0.0
King in the Wilderness
2018·6.9
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016·7.0
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
2015·8.4
... Sings Dylan II
2015·7.8
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014·0.0
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014·0.0
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013·8.0
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013·10.0
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011·6.6
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009·6.7
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009·6.0
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
2009·7.6
Bulles de Vian
2009·5.0
Woodstock: Untold Stories
2009·0.0
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
2007·8.1
65 Revisited
2007·9.4
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007·7.0
Slacker Uprising
2007·5.3
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005·7.8
Live Aid
2004·9.2
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
2004·0.0
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002·4.5
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996·6.8
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994·5.7
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993·7.0
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990·6.0
We Shall Overcome
1989·7.0
The Return of Bruno
1987·6.5
In Remembrance of Martin
1986·8.0
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986·0.0
Live Aid
1985·7.9
Merton: A Film Biography
1984·8.7
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984·6.5
Renaldo and Clara
1978·7.9
The Memory of Justice
1976·6.8
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
1976·9.5
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
1976·0.0
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1974·9.5
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
1973·7.0
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
1972·0.0
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1972·8.0
The Making of Silent Running
1972·8.0
Celebration at Big Sur
1971·3.7
Dynamite Chicken
1971·5.5
Wondering About Things
1971·0.0
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
1971·0.0
Carry It On
1970·0.0
Woodstock
1970·7.5
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970·7.3
Festival
1967·6.0
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967·7.4
The Big T.N.T. Show
1965·8.5
The March
1964·7.0