Explore "joanbaez" with insightful episodes like "Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday Presented by Cinematic Visions-Danny and Tim's Music Scene October 11th", "Are You Kidding Me 08-04-2022", "Woodstock", "Episode 4: Girl of Constant Sorrow" and "Vanguard Episode 1: Sing Out!" from podcasts like ""Danny Clinkscale: Reasonably Irreverent", "Are You Kidding Me?", "Docn' - A Celebration of the Music Documentary", "VMP Anthology" and "VMP Anthology"" and more!
The Woodstock Festival held in 1969 over three days in August would not be fated as a short and mostly sweet gathering around music and instead bears the historical weight of a sprawling and chaotic youth bacchanal that defines how we think about the sixties. But how well do we remember Woodstock itself? Thanks to a 1994 director’s cut of the original 1970 film called Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (that director being Michael Wadleigh), we are treated to almost four hours of sound and visuals that is nothing if not transportive. The Docn’ crew task ourselves with the good, the bad, the exaggerated and the wonderful in this legendary movie and cultural memory, call for more fringe, and are a little less than enthusiastic about how we might have enjoyed sleeping in mud had we been there.
This fourth episode of this season of the VMP Anthology Podcast is devoted to Joan Baez, whose self-titled Vanguard debut is the third album in your VMP Anthology box set devoted to Vanguard and the folk explosion. It’s hard to put into context now, but when Baez hit the folk scene in 1959, she was like a one-woman atom bomb, the biggest star the scene had ever seen, by a considerable margin. Where the Weavers could put a single on the charts on random larks, Baez’s self-titled debut was a chart behemoth, to date still the best selling record in Vanguard history.
To help put Baez in proper context, we talk with Elizabeth Thomson, who in 2020 published The Last Leaf, an extensive biography of Baez that culminates in her final shows before Baez retired. Here, Thomson checks in from her home in London and discusses how Joan became famous, her debut album, her relationship with Bob Dylan and why Thomson wrote her book on Baez.
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The first episode of our podcast on The Story of Vanguard, the 10th edition of VMP’s Anthology box set series, will set the scene for the rest of your box and give you an overview of Vanguard, its importance, as well as the state of folk music at large in the late ’50s and early ’60s, when the albums contained in this box were first released.
Before we dive into the music of The Weavers, Odetta, Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Doc Watson and Skip James, learn from Ronald Cohen — professor emeritus of history at Indiana University Northwest and a leading scholar on folk music — about the backstory of the label, New York as an epicenter of folk and how to define folk music.
S3 Ep7 The Thespis Intermission Mini-Cast:
The Kennedy Center Honors
Bruce and Melanie discuss the 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. An event that recognizes Honorees for a lifetime of artistic achievements.
The broadcast of the ceremony can be seen on U.S. television on Sunday, June 6, 2021, at 8/7c on CBS.
https://www.cbs.com/shows/kennedy_center_honors
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