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Joan Baez, Carolyn Hester: Two Queens of Folk

uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 5 June 1965

FIRST OF all, you SHOULD pronounce it "By-ezz"... Joan Baez. Though it's been twisted around a little as this folk-singing name is bandied about more and more. Joan By-ezz, then, born on Staten Island on January 9, 1941. Born happily, but disillusionment was soon to set in. And it shows, now, through in her work.

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