PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A long-awaited survey of the life and times of a cultural icon. Given Joan Baez’s centrality to American cultural and political life over the past five decades, the greatest surprise about this documentary is that it wasn’t made much sooner. While Bob Dylan’s career has been the subject of a multitude of docs and bios, essays and retrospectives, Baez’s work -- both as artist...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
IT WAS early June 1989. Václav Havel had been released from jail only days before, yet he was full of what now seems an almost prophetic certainty. Thousands of his countrymen
The War on Guns (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Way back when, we talked about mondegreens . And then we talked some more . This is one of the funniest examples I've seen. And yeah, I know, internal links in the old posts are mostly dead and gone. Incidentally, one of the worst examples is when Joan Baez presumed to sing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." It was Stoneman's cavalry.
Dog Without A Bone (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I like the Borderline . It's handily located a minute's walk from my office, it's never overwhelmingly loud, and the GCSE-art-project decor is cute. Last night I went there to see Dar Williams , in the company of a former colleague from a long time ago and some of her friends. They were all big-time fans who have all her albums, while I only have a few bootlegged tracks which I liked enough to want...
LOFT965 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Billboard has finally gotten over some of its archaic charting methods (Catalogue albums, anyone?) and is going to include a 15 spot chart for fold music beginning 2010. This will cater to artists like Ani DiFranco, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and their fans. This also comes with the revamping of the Billboard 200. It’s still [...]
Czech Please (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.” Vaclav Havel Sometimes I get lucky. Last night was one of those nights. V and I attended the very special concert and celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. It was held before a few hundred people...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel opened the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Velvet Revolution with a concert attended by celebrities.
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
'Cockney Kid: The Making of an Uncoventional Psychologist' Photo shows Honourable Hugh Templeton launching 'Cockney Kid: The Making of an Uncoventional Psychologist ', the memoirs of Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Victoria University Tony Taylor. Launched today at Kapiti's Mediterranean Warehouse with its famed Sicilian olives, hams, cheeses and Italian wines, the owner had barely enough seats...
Sify (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel opened festivities in Prague celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which toppled the communist regime in 1989.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
US singers Joan Baez, Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega performed Saturday at a concert in Prague paying homage to former Czech president Vaclav Havel, a hero of the Velvet Revolution 20 years ago. "These artists, passionate about freedom, were in solidarity with us at the darkest time," Havel, 73, said at the start of the concert at an old church transformed into a cultural centre. "They continue...
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
In his Ash Grove recording, guitarist Dave Alvin laments the loss of a favorite Los Angeles club, a venue that should be on the National Register of Historic Places. It would have to be in an urn, however, the club burned not once, but three times. Ed Pearl (an uncle of Spirit's Randy California) founded the 250-seat Ash Grove in 1958.
NOISE and SILENCE (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Sexta-feira dia 13.11::. Friday - rock all night .:: Rolling Stones - The Who - Led Zeppelin - Janis Joplin - Pink Floyd - Creedence - Deep Purple - Black Sabbath - The Beatles - ZZ Top - Bob Dylan - The Doors - Jimmy Hendrix - Carpenters - AC/DC - Neil Diamond - The Jam - Simon & Garfunkel - Joan Baez - The Mamas & the Papas - KISS - Twisted Sisters - Yes - The Police - Europe - Alice Cooper...
Conor's Commentary (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
There is something slightly surreal in seeing a giant of the 60s folk revival playing to a crowd of 800 in the city hall in Salisbury. But it proved a great venue in which to see a still feisty and inspiring Joan Baez on Wednesday night. She says she has never been happier doing concerts than now, and it shows. I've been going to Baez concerts over the last two decades, and she has never been better...
thoughts from another kook (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
arghhh my internet is being quite ridiculously slow tonight so i can't do the post i was going to, which was about a concert i went to last night. hopefully it'll be working properly soon so i can put my pictures up, it was a really awesome night so i need to document it somehow. a lovely email i got this evening was from lady luck rules ok, a jewellery & craft website which i just adorrrre, about...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
As the October moon rose over the Big Sur coast, a belly dancer with gold Iris wings twirled with the dancing ghosts of parties past at Nepenthe restaurant. There was a big reason to celebrate. After six decades of nurturing artists, writers and singers,...
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