Joan Baez talks book bans and going full 'fan-girl' for embattled Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones
LOS ANGELES — Joan Baez doesn't like being called a legend. "I realized that I hated it because I was not also current," Baez said Sunday at the L.A. Times Festival of Books to a packed room of people for whom Baez is a soundtrack of their lives. But just earlier this month a video of Baez with expelled Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones went viral. The two bumped into each other at the Newark, ...
by Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times
Apr 25, 2023
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Joan Baez doesn't like being called a legend.
"I realized that I hated it because I was not also current," Baez said Sunday at the L.A. Times Festival of Books to a packed room of people for whom Baez is a soundtrack of their lives.
But just earlier this month a of Baez with expelled Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones went viral. The two bumped into each other at the Newark, New Jersey, airport and sang an impromptu rendition of "We
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