From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V7 #47 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Tuesday, February 8 2005 Volume 07 : Number 047 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Introducing Folk Superstar Joan Baez [DavidSped@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 01:02:56 EST From: DavidSped@aol.com Subject: [RS] Introducing Folk Superstar Joan Baez In a message dated 2/7/2005 7:25:53 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org writes: Very few of those artists I named (and others like them), were semi-superstars. Baez, yes, but mostly in her later years and through her association with Dylan. Not exactly. Joan actually was not "semi" at all, but a "superstar" in every sense of the commercial term. Joan was on the Billboard charts from 1960 to 1979! She had 5 (!) albums on the Billboard Top 200 at one time (in her early years, not the later years), a feat never matched by a single female artist, let alone a "folk singer" (which is what these early albums mostly contained...mostly acoustic arrangements of traditional and some contemporary folk songs)[Three of these albums were just Joan and her guitar.] And she released and charted several of these before Dylan even released an album, let alone charted. Joan was the most commercially successfully female folk singer ever. She was the first artist to have a gold record ($1 million in sales was the determination at that time)from an independent label (Vanguard). She was the first Latina (father was born in Mexico) to be on the cover of Time magazine (November 22, 1962), and this was all due to her musical superstar status at the time (and very little to do with her political involvement which was already gathering quite a bit of steam). And I have more news for you...these years now (of the albums "Play Me Backwards" (1992 Grammy nominated), "Gone From Danger" (1997), "Dark Chords on a Big Guitar" (2003) and the future live CD to be released hopefully at the end of 2005, are actually her "later years", and are NOT "semi" nor "superstar" years, but thankfully aging-well, happy and exquisitely musically productive & political times. :) Dave Who once told Richard at The Bottom Line that I came to know of him by being such a long-time Joan Baez fan. He responded..."Me too!". ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V7 #47 **********************************