Comments on: Why isn’t the headline: “The long-overdue death of the sixties?”

By: L. Manning

L. Manning — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:49:06 +0000

Joan Baez and the other folkies have been singing about the hammer of justice and the bell of freedom for years, but they don’t recognize it when they see it.

By: ronnie

ronnie — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:50:18 +0000

Joan Baez was 18 in 1959 when she performed at the first Newport Folk Festival, after receiving an invitation from Dylan.

Bob Dylan was 17 years old in 1959. I think that was the year he left Hibbing for a brief stab at college in Minneapolis before heading eventually for NYC and the Village.

The invitation extended to Baez to play at the ’59 Newport festival was from folk singer Bob Gibson. That’s what it says in the linked article at Vanguard Records. It looks like you confused Bob Gibson with Bob Dylan.

Though your Baez was already big star when she started covering Dylan’s songs. Dylan’s career was unquestionably helped by both her recordings of his songs and their personal relationship as lovers. Eventually, Dylan’s career eclipsed that of Baez as it does to this day.

It’s interesting that though Dylan performed at the 1963 Civil Rights march, and though some of his songs, particularly Blowin’ In The Wind and Masters Of War, are regarded as ‘protests’ songs, Dylan has always openly rejected the label of a writer of protests songs and he’s never really been outspoken politically. Blowin’ In The Wind may allude to the civil rights movement and Hard Rain Gonna Fall may use the imagery of nuclear war, but the songs are much broader and more timeless than a specific political point.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:38:08 +0000

She didn’t get an invite from Dylan in 1959; it would be two or three years before she or anyone else would hear of Bob Dylan.

By: Wyck

Wyck — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:39:27 +0000

Amen brother DL

By: Norm

Norm — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:38:34 +0000

Amen, brothers DL and Wyck.

By: wyck

wyck — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:37:15 +0000

Amen, DL.

By: DL

DL — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:02:28 +0000

I remember mind-numbed followers saying they were voting for Gary Hart, because he had “new ideas” with Geraldine Ferrarro is was “electricity in the air” with John Kerry it was a “secret plan” and Hillary had her “listening tour.” They all speak passionately of the virtues of “choice.”
History has proven the folly of empty leftist cliches. They hide behind what they really believe:once they’re in power they – kill babies – tax workers to buy votes-steal from defense budgets they’ll never use – soak the productive job-creating class -shut down religion -it’s an opiate – tell minorities “we care” then ignore them between elections – their village is the deceptively authoritarian government Orwell warned about – stack the court with willing lawmaking judges to override the will of the people -morph education into indoctrination -reduce science to global politics -transfer sovereignity to one world institutions….degade us all with trash from the glitteri Hollywood set -make voting with clear info impossible with the distortions of their private press -load bureaucracies with leftists -destroy the structure of society by inverting the meaning of marriage – they censor out thoughts with pc-I could fill reams without trying of their clever deceptions. Their working motto remains “How can we fool them today! It seems that once again the war is nowhere but amonst ourselves and it may be that we will never get another chance to put away America’s real enemy:Godless , leftist, liberalism.