A reference in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music says: “Conservatives hate her, but only fools doubted her integrity.”īaez has always liked that line.
This led to her making both friends and enemies. In later years, she became known as much for her political leanings as for her singing, as she was an outspoken leader in the anti-war movement and for various social causes. But she was an immediate hit, and was soon a regular fixture there for Sunday afternoons concerts. And he did, and that was the only passing grade I got.”īaez was in her late-teens when she first played at the original Club 47, and was likely one of the first folksingers to perform in what was, at the time, still a jazz venue. He said if you bring your guitar and sing a couple of songs I’ll pass you. I remember one teacher whose class I was flunking. The guitar was my salvation and the singing was my salvation. I had no idea about anything, just kind of an instinctive and spontaneous and extremely neurotic life. I wasn’t cut out for school in the first place. long enough to even make a decision to quit. Thinking back to that transition period, Baez, who was born in 1941 and got her first guitar when she was 15, laughed and said, “I was never at B.U. Native New Yorker Joan Baez traces the beginning of her career as folksinger and activist to 1959, when her family had moved to Belmont (her father had landed a teaching spot at MIT), and she was a student at Boston University, but realized that she was better cut out to be a performer on the then-burgeoning Boston and Cambridge acoustic scene.
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