Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Joan Baez at Woodstock
Performed on	Day 1
Started at	1.00 am, Saturday, 16th
Played for	60 min. (approx.)
Further Information
Official link All Music Guide link Wikipedia link
Festival Day Chronology
Prev. artist	Arlo Guthrie at 11.55 pm
Next artist	end of day 1

The female counterpart to Bob Dylan, folksinger and anti-war protester Joan Baez, was the last act on Friday evening. She started at about 1:00 am. Appropriately, she wished everybody a good morning. Her perfectly arranged set combined with her beautiful and skillful voice was a fine finish for a chaotic and exhaustive first day.

After her performance it started to rain heavily^[1].

Contents 1 Musicians 2 Setlist 3 Details 4 Miscellaneous 5 Availability 5.1 Audio 5.2 Video 6 Images 7 Footnotes

[edit] Musicians

• Joan Baez - vocals, guitar
• Richard Festinger - guitar
• Jeffrey Shurtleff - vocals, guitar

[edit] Setlist

1. Oh Happy Day
2. The Last Thing On My Mind
3. I Shall Be Released
4. Story about how the Federal Marshalls came to take David Harris into custody
5. Joe Hill
6. Sweet Sir Galahad
7. Hickory Wind
8. Drug Store Truck Driving Man
9. I Live One Day at a Time
10. Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South
11. Let Me Wrap You in My Warm and Tender Love
12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
13. We Shall Overcome

[edit] Details

The setlist is based upon information from from Arthur Levy^[2] and Michael Lang's book The Road to Woodstock^[3]. Not everything listed was recorded or recordings are missing.

Inbetween Joan Baez told the audience how her husband, David Harris, was arrested. He was imprisoned for three years because he didn't follow his draft notice^[4] (he even founded an organization which encouraged men to refuse their military draft).

The gospel song "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" was performed a capella by Joan Baez alone.

Together with Jeffrey Shurtleff and Richard Festinger (members from the Draft Resistance organization founded by Baez husband David Harris) she played "Drug Store Truck Driving Man", a song composed by Roger McGuinn and Gram Parsons from The Byrds. The lyrics address a Ku Klux Clan member. It was devoted to the governor of California, Ronald Reagan (pronounced as ray-gun), by Shurtleff. He added an additional verse to involve Reagan's person.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Joan Baez also performed on the free stage.

Joan Baez was currently pregnant. Her son Gabriel Harris was born in December 1969.

[edit] Availability

About half of the setlist is available on official sources. An audience bootleg source adds "Last Thing on My Mind".

[edit] Audio

• 1970: Woodstock I
• 1971: Woodstock II
• 1994: Woodstock - Three Days of Peace and Music
• 1994: Best of Woodstock
• 2005: Blessed Are... (Bonus Tracks)

[edit] Video

• 1970: Woodstock
• 1990: Woodstock: The Lost Performances
• 1994: Woodstock Diaries

[edit] Images

Joan Baez at Woodstock

Joan Baez in blue	Joan Baez at an interview backstage	Joan Baez	Joan Baez
Joan Baez and Jeffrey Shurtleff	Jeffrey Shurtleff	Jeffrey Shurtleff silhouette	Richard Festinger on lead guitar
Joan Baez and Jeffrey Shurtleff, view from the stage	Joan Baez

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ German Wikipedia, article Woodstock-Festival
2. ↑ Yahoo! Woodstock Project mailing list - Joan Baez setlist
3. ↑ Michael Lang: The Road to Woodstock, 2009, ISBN 0061576557
4. ↑ English Wikipedia, article David Harris