Perhaps it was her humility that she left out the part she was one of the greatest promulgators of his songs, introduced him as she basked in fame. “This is a Bob Dylan song,” she said early in the set stating the obvious as if she needed to say it. They were likely some of the same once a stride faster going into halls of the traveling caravan of the mythical Rolling Thunder Revue tour of yesteryear. Outside the hall it was noticeable with time passing marked by the graying of people and the noticeably slow pace by which they approached the admission doors. “I have to have something to watch when I stop touring,” she said as the content creator of her new home movie.Īs she approaches eighty, Baez is in better shape and seemingly more youthful than many in her audience. We were cheering rightfully so in the moment to commemorate a lifetime achievement, a remarkable life still being lived.
Stepping out onstage close to the end of her show, she moved the video camera of her phone slowly across a hall where she received standing ovation. I’m pretty sure only Joan will look at it. It was filmed on her Fare Thee Well Tour when she stopped at the Ferguson Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News. But you won’t get to see it and I’m certain I won’t.
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