Joan Baez has commanded stages since 1959, back when she was a raven-haired teenager parting audiences’ hair with her piercing soprano in folk clubs around Boston. Music Review: Joan Baez masters the art of the farewell concert “When I was really starting with both music and the guitar, it was all-consuming and I would literally be playing the guitar learning a song, fall asleep with a guitar on my chest, wake up and go on playing.” I drew pictures of Bambi and Thumper and sold them for three cents apiece.”īaez told Morrison that her love of drawing as a kid was replaced with music when she got her hands on a guitar. I realized I could draw when I was really young. “I was sort of an outsider kid my whole life. And I’m as surprised as anybody when I turn it right side up,” Baez said. “I don’t know what’s going on up there until I do the drawing. “Am I Pretty When I Fly? An Album of Upside Down Drawings” is Baez’s latest passion project, and her collection of sketches features recurring themes of politics, women, animals and family. She’s since retired from performing publicly, and she’s sharing her writing and illustrating talents with the world. Baez is known for her political activism and her close friendship with Martin Luther King Jr., in addition to her folk music.
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