Joan Baez

Folksinger Joan Baez has long been an advocate for a number of causes, both in her personal and her professional life. Her childhood in the Middle East and throughout the world (her father's job kept the family quite mobile) instilled in her a sense of social justice and the importance of equality and human rights. As a result, Joan quickly opted to use her celebrity to help the Civil Rights movement, and later leant her voice to the peace movement to end the War in Vietnam.

Human Rights

Since then, she has sung out, spoken out, and acted out to protect human rights around the globe, as well as the environmental movement and other vital issues. Joan's version of Phil Ochs' "There But For Fortune" can best stand for her values as a protest singer.

Civil Rights

On the morning of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech in Washington D.C., it was Joan Baez who started the events of the day by performing "Oh Freedom"—"Before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave ... oh freedom over me."

Great Albums by Joan Baez

Bowery Songs | Compare Prices

Diamonds & Rust | Compare Prices