Interviewing folksinger Joan Baez.

Interviewing folksinger Joan Baez.

Joan Baez speaks with Studs Terkel about role of music and the responsibility of musicians in the specific historical moment of the late '60's.

The singer, songwriter, and activist Joan Baez sits down with Studs to talk about her involvement in the folk music revival. Some of her songs are discussed, including Wagoner's Lad, What Have They Done to the Rain?, Joys of Love (Plaisir d'Amour), Mary Hamilton, All My Trials, and Babe I'm Gonna Leave You.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Interviewing Ralph Gleason while Studs was in Berkeley, California (3 parts). Bob Dylan and Joan Baez sings "Daddy, You Been on My Mind." Elsa Knight Thompson.

Rose Styron and Studs read works by exiled writers and performers and discuss Amnesty International.

Program opens with an excerpt of a May 1, 1963, interview with singer and songwriter Bob Dylan.

In Berkeley, Calif., Ralph Gleason, jazz and pop critic, and founding editor of Rolling Stone, talks with Studs about the history of jazz and jazz artists. They talk in depth about Billie Holiday, white performers who imitated the style of black jazz singers, and jazz festivals. Songs include Holiday's "Them There Eyes" and "God Bless the Child."

Terkel had a deep love of folk music (his tributes to Woody Guthrie are especially inspired) and interviews in this topic include Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, Janis Joplin, Odetta, John Prine, Buffy St. Marie,  John Jacob Niles, Jean Redpath, Pete Seeger, Doc Watson and many dozens more.