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Literally the voice of a generation, folk icon Joan Baez was foremost among the singers of the folk revival of the 1960s who rejected the hit parade and established a precedent whereby the music of a new generation became the conscience for an emerging era of social activism. Even as an 18-year-old, introduced onstage at the first annual Newport Folk Festival in 1959, and during her apprenticeship on the Boston-Cambridge coffeehouse folk music circuit leading up to the recording of her first solo album for Vanguard Records in the summer of 1960, Joan's repertoire reflected a different sensibility from her peers. In the traditional songs she mastered, there was an acknowledgment of the human condition—underdogs in the first, inequity among the races, the desperation of poverty, the futility of war, romantic betrayal, unrequited love, spiritual redemption, and grace.
Bowery Songs, Baez's first live album in a decade, is a soaring chronicle of her 2003-2004 tour. The album was recorded in its entirety on the Saturday night after Election Day in 2004 at New York's Bowery Ballroom. From Joan's opening a cappella benediction to her prophetic and telling versions of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and Steve Earle's "Jerusalem" that close the album, there can be no mistaking the medium and the message she so successfully captures.
Southwest Roots Music & AMP Concerts present folk icon
JOAN BAEZ
October 24, 2006 at 7:30pm
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave. NW, Albuquerque
$39, $44, $49 reserved.
SW Roots members should call 473-5723 to receive discount.
*Tickets available in person at the KiMo Box Office (10 to 4, M-F. There are no service charges at the KiMo Box Office) and all TicketMaster outlets. Call 505-883-7800.
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave. NW, Albuquerque
$39, $44, $49 reserved.
SW Roots members should call 473-5723 to receive discount.
*Tickets available in person at the KiMo Box Office (10 to 4, M-F. There are no service charges at the KiMo Box Office) and all TicketMaster outlets. Call 505-883-7800.
Literally the voice of a generation, folk icon Joan Baez was foremost among the singers of the folk revival of the 1960s who rejected the hit parade and established a precedent whereby the music of a new generation became the conscience for an emerging era of social activism. Even as an 18-year-old, introduced onstage at the first annual Newport Folk Festival in 1959, and during her apprenticeship on the Boston-Cambridge coffeehouse folk music circuit leading up to the recording of her first solo album for Vanguard Records in the summer of 1960, Joan's repertoire reflected a different sensibility from her peers. In the traditional songs she mastered, there was an acknowledgment of the human condition—underdogs in the first, inequity among the races, the desperation of poverty, the futility of war, romantic betrayal, unrequited love, spiritual redemption, and grace.
Bowery Songs, Baez's first live album in a decade, is a soaring chronicle of her 2003-2004 tour. The album was recorded in its entirety on the Saturday night after Election Day in 2004 at New York's Bowery Ballroom. From Joan's opening a cappella benediction to her prophetic and telling versions of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and Steve Earle's "Jerusalem" that close the album, there can be no mistaking the medium and the message she so successfully captures.
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