Bob Dylan Joan Baez

Folk Musicians, Songwriter ｓ and Activists.

In modern music, they were two of the first musicians to become active in social causes.

Before Bob Dylan met Joan Baez, he was a bit in awe of her –
he thought she was beautiful, convincingly eerie in her
interpretations of traditional folk songs, already nationally
known in her late teens, and strikingly different from the
other female folk singers who were on the scene in the late
1950s and early 1960s. . .He intuitively knew that his voice
would complement hers, and that she would make a great
singing partner. In a few short years, that idea became a
reality. Baez, who was performing in Cambridge in the early
1960s, would frequently come down to New York City to visit the folk clubs,
where Dylan was performing.

At around the time she met Dylan, Baez became increasingly interested in social
and political causes, particularly the civil rights movement; later in the 1960s
she became an active participant in protests against the war in Vietnam.

Baez got to know Bob Dylan, and she began inviting him onstage during her
performances. They were romantically as well as professionally involved for a
few years -- in some people's minds, they were the king and queen of folk
music -- but things soured during his 1965 tour of England. Baez had come
along with the expectation that Dylan would invite her onstage, but at that
point in his career, he didn't want to share the spotlight with her. They also
wanted to take different directions in their careers. While he wanted to
concentrate on music, she wanted to continue advancing social causes.

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 “Joan was born the same year as me and our futures would be linked. . .She had one record out on the
Vanguard label called JOAN BAEZ and I'd seen her on TV. ... She was wicked-looking -- shiny
black hair that hung down over the curve of slender hips, drooping lashes. . . The sight of her made
me high. All that and then there was her voice. A voice that drove out bad spirits. It was like she'd
come down from another planet.” --Bob Dylan

Bob intuitively thought that his voice would

Blowin’ in the Wind (Bob Dylan) complement hers.
Intuitive means
a) through reason
How many roads must a man walk down b) through deep, innate feelings！
c) in love
Before you call him a man?
Complement means
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
a) to say a nice thing about someone
Before she sleeps in the sand? b) to compete with
c) to complete and make perfect
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist

Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free? Dylan said about Joan Baez, “The sight of her
made me high.” What do you think that means?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head, Why
What did
kind ofthey break
feeling up?
is he talking about?
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind

How many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

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