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[4] [7] Johnny Cash is known to have included "500 Miles" on his list of 100 essential country songs in the early 1970s. [8] Folklorist Norm Cohen writes that 900 miles, rather than 500, is the most common distance referenced in versions of the traditional song, but other distances including 400 miles and 10,000 miles also appear. [7]
Hedwig Grace "Hedy" West (April 6, 1938 – July 3, 2005) was an American folksinger, songwriter and song catcher. She belonged to the same generation of folk revivalists as Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Carolyn Hester. Her most famous song "500 Miles" is one of America's most popular folk songs.
Beginning in the late 1960s, Baez began writing many of her own songs, beginning with "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "A Song For David", both songs appearing on her 1970 (I Live) One Day at a Time album; "Sweet Sir Galahad" was written about her sister Mimi's second marriage, while "A Song For David" was a tribute to Harris.
Joan Baez, Vol. 2: 1962 "Lonesome Road" b/w "Pal of Mine" — — — 1963 "What Have They Done to the Rain" b/w "Danger Waters" — — — Joan Baez in Concert "We Shall Overcome" b/w "What Have They Done to the Rain" (from Joan Baez in Concert) 90 — 26 Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2: 1965 "There But for Fortune" b/w "Daddy You Been on My ...
The album takes its name from a Bob Dylan song, and includes a total of four Dylan songs, two of which were not officially released by Dylan until 1991. The album also features songs written by other folk singers such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger , as well a German reading of " Where Have All the Flowers Gone ".
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are played by Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro in "A Complete Unknown." The two folk singers met in the early '60s and quickly became close collaborators.
Joan has this incredible nightingale voice, and Bob is more of a blues man, a scratchy, craggy mumbler. But then Bob is an incredible songwriter, and Joan was mostly performing other people's songs.
In his AllMusic review, music critic Bruce Eder commented that the purity of the sound was notable at the time. He wrote of the album "Baez gives a fine account of the most reserved and least confrontational aspects of the folk revival, presenting a brace of traditional songs (most notably "East Virginia" and "Mary Hamilton") with an urgency and sincerity that makes the listener feel as though ...