Joan Baez: Speaking Of Her Dreams
Mark Leviton, Village View, 15 December 1989
NO DOUBT the desk clerk at the Registry Hotel in Universal City who gave Joan Baez her suite number was unaware that 1961 was a pretty good year for Baez, coming off the impact of her first Vanguard record album and headed for the cover of Time magazine.
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