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===Bob Dylan=== [[File:Joan Baez Bob Dylan.jpg|thumb | alt=Sitting very close, Baez singing, Dylan with guitar and harmonica | Baez with [[Bob Dylan]] at the civil rights [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]], 1963]] Baez first met Dylan in April 1961 at [[Gerde's Folk City]] in New York City's [[Greenwich Village]]. Baez had already released her debut album and her popularity as the emerging "Queen of Folk" was on the rise. Baez was initially unimpressed with the "urban [[hillbilly]]", but she liked one of Dylan's first compositions, "[[Song to Woody]]" and remarked that she would like to record it. By 1963, Baez had released three albums, two of which had been certified gold, and she invited Dylan on stage to perform alongside her at the Newport Folk Festival. The two performed the Dylan composition "[[With God on Our Side (song)|With God on Our Side]]", a collaboration that set the stage for many more duets in the months and years to come. Typically, while on tour, Baez would invite Dylan to sing on stage partly by himself and partly with her, much to the chagrin of her fans.<ref name="American Masters" /> Before meeting Dylan, Baez's topical songs were few: "[[Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream]]", "We Shall Overcome", and an assortment of [[spirituals]]. Baez would later say that Dylan's songs seemed to update the topics of protest and justice. By the time of Dylan's 1965 tour of the UK, their relationship had slowly begun to deteriorate. The couple are captured in [[D. A. Pennebaker]]'s documentary film ''[[Dont Look Back]]''<!-- {{sic}} --> (1967). Baez later described it as an abrupt halt that broke her heart. In the 2023 documentary ''[[Joan Baez: I Am a Noise|I Am a Noise]]'' Baez referred to the relationship as "totally demoralizing" which she later forgave him for but said that they are no longer in touch with each other.<ref name="people2023"> ''How Joan Baez found peace'' by Ilana Kaplan ''People'' magazine October 16, 2023, p. 61 </ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/10/06/joan-baez-interview-i-am-a-noise-documentary-bob-dylan-family-secrets-musical-legacy/71075368007/ |title='Dylan broke my heart:' Joan Baez on how she finally shed 'resentment' of 1965 breakup |author=Marco della Cava |work=USA TODAY |date=October 6, 2023 |access-date=October 11, 2023}}</ref> Baez toured with Dylan as a performer on his [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] in 1975β76. She sang four songs with Dylan on the live album of the tour, ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue]]'', released in 2002. Baez appeared with Dylan in the one-hour TV special ''Hard Rain'', filmed at [[Fort Collins]], [[Colorado]], in May 1976. Baez also starred as 'The Woman in White' in the film ''[[Renaldo and Clara]]'' (1978), directed by Bob Dylan and filmed during the Rolling Thunder Revue. They performed together at the Peace Sunday anti-nuke concert in 1982.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-bob-dylan-and-joan-baez-cover-jimmy-buffet-in-1982-229823/|title=Flashback: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez Cover Jimmy Buffet[sic] in 1982|first1=Andy|last1=Greene|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=July 5, 2016|access-date=August 3, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727014838/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-bob-dylan-and-joan-baez-cover-jimmy-buffet-in-1982-229823/|url-status=live}}</ref> Dylan and Baez toured together again in 1984 along with [[Carlos Santana]]. Baez discussed her relationship with Dylan in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s documentary film ''[[No Direction Home]]'' (2005), and in the PBS ''[[American Masters]]'' biography of Baez, ''How Sweet the Sound'' (2009). Baez wrote and composed at least three songs that were specifically about Dylan. In "To Bobby", written in 1972, she urged Dylan to return to political activism, while in "[[Diamonds & Rust (song)|Diamonds & Rust]]", the title track from [[Diamonds & Rust|her 1975 album]], she revisited her feelings for him in warm, yet direct terms.<ref name="Gray">{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Gray (author) |title=The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia |publisher=The Continuum International Publishing Group |location=London |year=2006 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bobdylanencyclop00gray/page/30 30β31] |isbn=978-0-8264-6933-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/bobdylanencyclop00gray/page/30}}</ref> "[[Winds of the Old Days (song)|Winds of the Old Days]]", also on the ''Diamonds & Rust'' album, is a bittersweet reminiscence about her time with "Bobby". The references to Baez in Dylan's songs are far less clear. Baez herself has suggested that she was the subject of both "[[Visions of Johanna]]" and "[[Mama, You Been on My Mind]]", although the latter was more likely about his relationship with [[Suze Rotolo]].<ref>Gray p 30</ref><ref name="Heylin">{{cite book |last=Heylin |first=Clinton |title=Behind the Shades Revisited |publisher=HarperEntertainment |location=London |year=2003 |pages=158β159 |isbn=978-0-06-052569-9}}</ref> Dylan's "[[To Ramona]]" is potentially also about Baez. In the liner notes of his 1985 compilation album ''[[Biograph (album)|Biograph]]'', Dylan stated that the song was "pretty literal. That was just somebody I knew";<ref>{{Cite book |last=Trager |first=Oliver |title=Keys to the rain: the definitive Bob Dylan encyclopedia |date=2004 |publisher=Billboard Books |isbn=978-0-8230-7974-2 |location=New York}}</ref> and in her 1987 biography ''And A Voice To Sing With,'' Baez wrote about how Dylan would call her "Ramona". Baez implied when speaking about the connection to "Diamonds and Rust" that "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" is, at least in part, a metaphor for Dylan's view of his relationship with her. As for "[[Like A Rolling Stone]]", "Visions of Johanna", "[[She Belongs to Me]]", and other songs alleged to have been written about Baez, neither Dylan nor biographers such as [[Clinton Heylin]] and [[Michael Gray (author)|Michael Gray]] have had anything definitive to say either way regarding the subject of these songs. Baez's relationship with Dylan was also referenced in the 2024 film ''[[A Complete Unknown]]''.{{CN|date=April 2025}}
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