The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (3)
mainI heard Joan Baez sing this at the lowest point in my life, and it helped.
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You know, of course, that We Shall Overcome was the anthem of the US civil rights movement in the sixties.
Now the song is occasionally used by people in the anti abortion movement. They believe that fetuses are people and that therefore their anti abortion protest, which they call the right-to-life movement, is a civil rights movement. I very strongly agree
My mother sat next to her at a protest in Berkeley, California in 1964, said that she was the sweetest woman. I love her Bachianas Brasileiras, too.
Agreed. Anyone who has not heard her Bachianas Brasileiras should look it up on YouTube. Amazing interpretation.
I looked it up. It’s actually really good. Thank you.
Thank-you for posting. Beautiful.
Or try her ‘Gracias a la Vida’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZxBvUMlG0
— and even:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO7G1v-6Gg4
Nice. What a voice. Comforting.
You have just made me cry! Thankyou!
Me too. Takes me back to the civil rights movement at Yale in 1961
Thanks Norman for the uplifting message of the song. Thought this might be the place to mention someone else you have introduced people to in the past: the French singer Barbara. I was incredibly moved by the programme you made about her some years ago and have been her fan ever since. Others may find her too sombre, but for me such songs as ‘Nantes’, ‘Septembre’ and ‘Ma plus belle Amour’ offer a great message of love and resilience in troubled times.
Absolutely and wholeheartedly agree, an art really lacking in the Anglophone world
A great artist and a decent and honourable person. Opposed American involvement in Vietnam without lying about the Viet Cong. Unlike the vile Jane Fonda, to whom none of the first sentence applies.
For me, it’s Anthem by Leonard Cohen.
Very nice to hear this at this time. Thanks, Norman, and especially…. THANKS, JOAN!!