did you know they weren't allowed to entertain the patients at walter reed?
i know ms baez (not unlike buffy sainte marie whom i also love) is an acquired taste. i just happened to have that taste. my favorite recording of hers is a cover album (yeah, i have the vinyl) of bob dylan songs called any day now (my favorite being you ain't goin' nowhere. WHICH by the way, when i was playing, i did a fairly mean rendition of)
Joan Baez Unwelcome At Concert For Troops
Singer Was to Perform With Mellencamp at Walter Reed
By Teresa Wiltz Washington Post Staff Write Wednesday, May 2, 2007; Page C01
When rocker John Mellencamp performed for the recovering soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday night, a couple of things were missing. He squelched his typically blistering rhetoric against the war in Iraq. Also MIA, as it turned out, was folkie and antiwar activist Joan Baez, who says she was disinvited from the event by Army officials.
In a letter that appears today in The Washington Post, Baez says Mellencamp had wanted her to perform with him and that she had accepted his invitation.................
joan baez
i know ms baez (not unlike buffy sainte marie whom i also love) is an acquired taste. i just happened to have that taste. my favorite recording of hers is a cover album (yeah, i have the vinyl) of bob dylan songs called any day now (my favorite being you ain't goin' nowhere. WHICH by the way, when i was playing, i did a fairly mean rendition of)
Joan Baez Unwelcome At Concert For Troops
Singer Was to Perform With Mellencamp at Walter Reed
By Teresa Wiltz Washington Post Staff Write Wednesday, May 2, 2007; Page C01
When rocker John Mellencamp performed for the recovering soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday night, a couple of things were missing. He squelched his typically blistering rhetoric against the war in Iraq. Also MIA, as it turned out, was folkie and antiwar activist Joan Baez, who says she was disinvited from the event by Army officials.
In a letter that appears today in The Washington Post, Baez says Mellencamp had wanted her to perform with him and that she had accepted his invitation.................
joan baez
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