https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/joan-ba...e-performance/
The sweetest contralto in popular music.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/joan-ba...e-performance/
The sweetest contralto in popular music.
Thank you.
When I first knew of her I was taken by her voice and and her beauty, but put off by her politics.
Over the years I have mellowed in my thoughts of her politics and grown in my adoration of her voice and uncommon beauty. She has aged gracefully and remains lovely to this day at age 79.
Next week she will be presented with a lifetime award at our local folk music festival.
I came across an early recording of Stewball she did. Yeah, Stewball lays dead in the infield, "But his story's been told."
Hunter
She has many beautiful songs recorded, but my favorite is one she wrote about her love affair with Bob Dillan, “Diamonds & Rust.” She has never been known as a song writer, but to gig her old lover who is one of the great song writers ever, she out did herself. She still had that glorious voice when she recorded this song.
https://youtu.be/IrVD0bP_ybg