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	Joan Baez
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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 exhausting first day.

During her performance it was drizzling, and then after her she finished it started to rain heavily^[1].

Musicians Edit

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

Setlist Edit

Oh Happy Day
The Last Thing On My Mind
I Shall Be Released
Story about how the Federal Marshalls came to take David Harris into custody
No Expectations
Joe Hill
Sweet Sir Galahad
Hickory Wind
Drug Store Truck Driving Man
I Live One Day at a Time
Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South
Let Me Wrap You in My Warm and Tender Love
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
We Shall Overcome

Details Edit

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 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.