Joan Baez on 3 Days of Pregnancy and Priggishness at Woodstock
'While the masses danced naked in the mud, this folk heroine preached about politics and avoided eating anything suspicious.
Two months before Woodstock, Joan Baez released her 11th LP, “David’s Album.” The title referred to her husband at the time, David Harris, who, by the early Saturday morning Baez sang, was in prison for resisting the draft. Baez was also six months pregnant and the most politically active artist on the bill, with a passion that moved her to try to mobilize the partying, tripping masses.
Baez, 78, has an ornery, defiant streak that was evident when she called for this interview from her home in the Bay Area. Woodstock was a lot of fun, she said, but fun doesn’t change the world, and change is what motivates her. So she remembered the festival with a mixture of glee and disappointment, and a little bit of don’t-look-back.
She discussed the allure of Bob Dylan, the dangerous pull of nostalgia and her relatively stuffy behavior in the 1960s. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/arts/music/joan-baez-woodstock.html
