Ten years Twenty years Something like that

Joan Baez does not always control the French, despite many retreats in a magical place a few kilometres from Saint-Lô, in the château de Canisy. Since 30 years, she has visits regularly and is there feels like home. "This kind of place does not exist in my country, live in a castle, it is something that most Americans dream but will never because we do not." Our history dates not far.

Joan Baez speaks with a voice soft and graceful, often fronted. She loves the France has always been, since this first European tour at the beginning of the sixties. First memories of a country which immediately opened their arms to a country where, as a child, she lived a little with his family returning from a mission in Iraq (his father was researcher at the Unesco), a country where the directors were a little crazy. "I will never forget my first TV with Jean-Christophe Averty, it had ceased giving me orders dry and authoritarian, never hesitating to cut me in action or to make me start over." I guessed that I in had ended when he turned to me and threw me: "Joan Baez you are a genius, me too"!

Half a century later, Joan Baez spends a good part of the spring in France, to give a dozen concerts, and not dream of a coffee on a terrace. Observe the passers-by is one of the most expensive desires, she who since the 1960s continues to travel the world. "Don't worry, you won't need to say, I'll do myself: I celebrated my seventy years in January." Time, experience, age, call it as you want, bring me greatly. There are of course all these small disadvantages of the daily, these things because it does more to make the mechanics of the body is longer as well oiled; But beyond that, there is serenity. And I cannot help but take example on my mother, who goes on his ninety-eight years. As for her past and the future often overlap, it takes full advantage of this time. It is for me a beautiful lesson of life, do not seek to too, remain humble. For example, I have never had need to sell millions of disks, I just need to have what live. We often talk of the Internet, the illegal downloading, piracy, but Internet my music travel freely. Freedom, is it not one of the most beautiful words

Very soon marked by the reading of the "diary of Anne Frank" and then by the commitment of Gandhi, Joan Baez is overcome by Martin Luther King. It will shortly support the pastor and be at his side in his historic speech of August 28, 1963, in Washington, "I Have a dream". Already at the Zenith, Joan Baez resumed "we shall overcome" with demonstrators gathered 250,000 this day there. Two years later, it again on the side of Martin Luther King in the March against segregation in Alabama, and then in Granada (Mississippi) in 1966 to the Ku Klux Klan who claims to deny access to a school for black children. His voice is resolutely committed, his interpretations of traditional upsets a changing America, were dubbed the "Virgin Mary's folk" or "Madonna of the poor". Joan Baez became a legend.

In parallel, she lives a love story that marks the spirits, Joan Baez fell in love of Bob Dylan. It is also it which will reveal to the public, will impose it in the first part and resume his songs with passion: "blowin' ' in the Wind", "farewell Angelina", "It's all over now, Baby Blue"... Their story will last a few years, but will cease, because common cravings. He becomes the rock-star known. She, the symbol of the free and militant woman. "I am not nostalgic, because it is difficult to stop to think about the past, memories often bring strong feelings, and tears." I can't think of Martin Luther King without me to cry... For Bob Dylan, it's very different, we stayed friends, finally I think, because I see more, but I imagine that if we we met tomorrow, we would share a good time together. That's why I don't think ever to yesterday, I don't know even how long we are not seen. Ten years Twenty years Something like that... But it remains the largest, I say, that whatever the talent of young artists of today, it will never gain access to his notoriety. No group of folk and rock will be important that he, he wrote the most beautiful songs of the 1960s. But we were not on the same planet. In 1965 in London, while Bob launched the Beatles to the fumette, I was in the streets to protest the war in the Viet Nam. Our story ended...

Joan Baez is not blocked in the past, it has even loaned the duo with the Pogues game recently. "They had requested me and I was thrilled, I love their music...". "But it says listening little music because he preferred the sound of nature.

Joan Baez talks about the past with indecent assault, admitting that his dreams of universal peace, of love rather than the war were not always well heard. It is perhaps for this reason that she lives now in a small town quiet in California, Woodside, surrounded by trees and wild animals where one never talks policy. International tensions have here no echo for those who live in harmony with nature, and if Joan Baez saw no better world arrive, she knows that this is a goal. "I quickly realized that the change I wanted deeper I happen not in my lifetime." The election of