ON Christmas Eve, 1956, a 15-year-old boy heads due south on a five-hour Greyhound Bus journey from his home in Hibbing, ...

Bob Dylan called it her “heart-stopping soprano,” and it’s true that when Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song “We Shall Overcome,” you could believe we would, indeed, ...

It really doesn’t matter that Joan Baez, by her own report, hasn’t written a song in 20 years. With dozens of classic songs such as “Diamonds & Rust” and “Only Heaven Knows” in her songwriting catalog ...

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez had a complex, rocky relationship in the early 60s and into the mid-70s. She was a muse, a duet partner, and frequently the other woman. But she was talented and skillful in ...

Joan Baez was born in Staten Island, New York. She grew up in New York and California, and when her father took a faculty position in Massachusetts, she attended Boston University and began to sing in ...

Last year, Joan Baez published her first-ever collection of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance, expressing her thoughts on personal and family life and some of her music peers. But a few ...

Bob Dylan called it her “heart-stopping soprano,” and it’s true that when Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song “We Shall Overcome,” you could believe we would, indeed, ...