Joan Baez

Raw, romantic and radical: Joan Baez’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

With her Diamonds and Rust album turning 50, we rate the standout tracks from the strident American folk singer and political activist

Alexis Petridis

28, Mar, 2025 @8:00 AM

A Complete Unknown review – Timothée Chalamet radiates charisma in evocative Dylan biopic

James Mangold’s handsome portrait of the enigmatic singer’s stratospheric early career boasts a barnstorming lead performance yet often slips into heavy-handedness

Wendy Ide

19, Jan, 2025 @8:00 AM

‘I’m literally Joan Baez right now’: gen Z women relate to Bob Dylan’s toxic situationship

The film A Complete Unknown has sparked interest in the folk singers’ doomed romance, and with it the realization that a similar dynamic is ‘happening to girls everywhere’

Alaina Demopoulos

15, Jan, 2025 @1:00 PM

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise review – intimate doc about the folk legend and activist

Recovered memories of abuse are alluded to but not explored in this often painful look back at the sensational life and career of a true icon of counterculture

Peter Bradshaw

27, Oct, 2023 @2:19 PM

Joan Baez: ‘I talk to trees to get answers. They give it to you cold turkey’

As a documentary of her life is released, the folk singer answers your questions on spirituality, competing with Joni Mitchell and running around naked at Burning Man

As told to Rich Pelley

05, Oct, 2023 @2:00 PM

Post your questions for Joan Baez

The activist and hugely popular folk singer is the subject of a new documentary, Joan Baez: I Am a Noise, and will answer your questions later this week

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

11, Sep, 2023 @7:59 AM

March on Washington: the day MLK – and Dylan and Baez – made hope and history rhyme

Sixty years ago, at the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King changed America. But there was more to the day than just his ‘I have a dream’ speech. There was music too

Charles Kaiser

28, Aug, 2023 @6:00 AM

Brice Marden obituary

American painter who combined constant experimentation and a resistance to fashion in his work

Charles Darwent

15, Aug, 2023 @5:51 PM

Joan Baez: where to start in her back catalogue

In the Listener’s digest series, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Today: the first lady of folk-rock

Owen Myers

08, Apr, 2020 @10:00 AM

'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs

It was a blueprint for Live Aid and every mega-festival since. We survey a new archive box set – in full – to uncover the real story of these ‘three days of peace and music’

Bob Stanley

15, Aug, 2019 @11:29 AM

All aboard the Bob Dylan express! How Rolling Thunder revved round America

When Dylan chanced upon a huge Roma gathering in France, he was transfixed – and formed his own travelling supergroup. As Martin Scorsese brings its ragtag magic to screens, we hitch a ride back to 75

Richard Williams

11, Jun, 2019 @2:26 PM

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese review – passion on tour

This freewheeling doc hitches a ride in Dylan’s ‘75 tourbus, with Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and a young Sharon Stone in tow