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Home › Entertainment

HerTube | 10/14/2008 12:00 am

HerTube: I Shall Be Released (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Forty-one years ago, Joan Baez was arrested while protesting the Vietnam War. She is truly a woman with strong convictions. Click the play button below to see her perform "I Shall Be Released."



Read more about: Civil rights, HerTube, Joan Baez, Music, Video, Vietnam War

19 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

James the Game
She was wonderful. You may call them naive idealists, the young Woodstock generation, but their prime themes of peace and love ring true still today. And their chant, “Give peace a chance” rings ever more true, for we have not learned the lessons of yesterday.
By James the Game on 10/14/2008 12:17 am
Elizabeth Bennett
Last month I went to a Judy Collins concert in San Rafael and Joan Baez was in the audience. Judy Collins was remembering performing in Greenwich Village in the sixties and asked Joan to stand. The thunderous applause and standing ovation for Joan’s mere appearance at the concert was a recognition of how much she means to so many. I think her voice is one of the greatest voices of all time. That she has inspired people to “do the right thing” makes her even better. Her father, a physicist who refused to work in the defense industry—which was most of the employment for physicists—and also an outspoken advocate for peace, undoubtedly played a role in inspiring her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Baez I have always thought someone should write a biography of Albert Baez; he just sounds fascinating.
By Elizabeth Bennett on 10/14/2008 12:29 am
James the Game
That’s incredible, Elizabeth.
By James the Game on 10/14/2008 3:43 pm
mary lou s
i admire joan baez. it was crushing to go to a concert of hers maybe 15-20 years ago and find them selling memorabilia of her. better joan baez than so many others. she believes.
By mary lou s on 10/14/2008 12:37 am
f p
Joan—you are so incredibly beautiful and talented—I’ve always admired you and that pure soprano voice can still send chills my way. :-) Did the suxties really end——I wonder— for those of us that lived it.
By f p on 10/14/2008 1:13 am
f p
Did I actually write “suxties”? Sweet Baby Huey I gotta get me a typing course—ya think? LMAO
By f p on 10/14/2008 5:08 am
georgia fatwood
Yes you dih-id….I think 2008 could qualify as an honorary of the “suxties”……
By georgia fatwood on 10/14/2008 12:16 pm
f p
OMG yes lolololol
By f p on 10/14/2008 12:23 pm
Kryssi K
Who would arrest such a sweet, beautiful, harmless soul?! I feel like YouTube-ing (yes, that is a verb now, don’cha know) some Baez now. And maybe some Patti Smith. But she’s another story entirely…
By Kryssi K on 10/14/2008 1:32 am
georgia fatwood
Yes, we’ve verbed another noun…..it’s getting to be a really long list….dictionaries are going to come in fourteen volumes before long….
By georgia fatwood on 10/14/2008 12:19 pm
f p
I’m with Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes—Verbing is weird :-) But I find it fun—that’s what makes the English language to incredible and so affirming—English has close to 1.5 million words now and French for example has barely 300K—so we have a vibrant very rich language and i just simply love it. :-)
By f p on 10/14/2008 12:27 pm
rocky rocky
I can’t think of Joan without thinking of Bobby. So here’s one for them both and a reminder to McCain that we’ve been on to him and his kind for a very long time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUvQzgxTxmE&feature=related a pawn in their game
By rocky rocky on 10/14/2008 8:42 am
James the Game
Rock, a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUworKXBzdE
By James the Game on 10/14/2008 4:02 pm
rocky rocky
Hi James, A soothing welcome melody. Thank you. But I don’t believe in predestination, so the lyrics make me a bit more than uncomfortable. Okay, must admit, you have inspired a bit of light-heartedness in me (thank you again), so how ‘bout this: McCain as a great pretender: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55wWiFi6BFo&feature=related Or I only have eyes for Obama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEe4zMBQlaQ&feature=related
By rocky rocky on 10/14/2008 5:29 pm
James the Game
I love good pop rock, even though some of that early stuff and do-wop were before my time. I feel I was fortunate to be born just early enough where I can appreciate pop music, because it really moves me very deeply. I grew up in the 1960’s, swinging on a swingset in the backyard, singing at the top of my 4-year-old lungs, “Those were the days my friends…” . Ha! I was nostaglic at age 4. Just used a Wal-mart gift card yesterday that I was given last Christmas to buy 4 CD’s: Van Halen II, James Taylor “Best of”, Doobie Brothers “Toulhouse Street”, and Bob Seger’s “Against the Wind” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi79wy97Wug&feature=related
By James the Game on 10/14/2008 7:16 pm
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