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I know how you feel. We dropped to 19°C last night. I had to wear long sleeves going to work this morning. -
"We Shall Overcome" by Pete Seeger recorded at Carnegie Hall on this day in 1963.
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One of those songs my parents would play frequently when I was growing up; Pete Seeger was one of my dad’s favorites. Ever the never tRumper, I can guarantee you dad’s thinking this even in his final days.
#MusicOfMastodon
#FucktRump
#WeShallOvercome
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URalt, aber eben ein Klassiker.
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The path before us has been made extraordinarily clear. What matters most today, of all days, is to honor the prophet that gave us that Dream. And to recommit to it.
#WeShallOvercome
#MartinLutherKing
#photography
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My fave version of this song is this one by #PeteSeeger 💗✊️
#WeShallOvercome & live in #peace someday.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Ld8JGv56E
#music #ActivistSongs #AntiWar #PeaceActivists #SongsForPeace #humanitarian #MusicActivism
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#WeShallOvercome with the #PowerOfThePeoples 💗✌️✊️💗
The most accomplished interpretive #folksinger of the 1960s, #JoanBaez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late '50s, she has put in the service of folk and pop #music as well as a variety of political causes. Starting out in Boston, Baez first gained recognition at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, then cut her debut album, Joan Baez (October 1960), for Vanguard Records. It was made up of 13 traditional songs, some of them children's ballads, given near-definitive treatment. A moderate success on release, the album took off after the breakthrough of Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (September 1961), and both albums became huge hits, as did Baez's third album, Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 1 (September 1962). Each album went gold and stayed in the bestseller charts more than two years.
From 1962 to 1964, Baez was the popular face of #FolkMusic, headlining festivals and concert tours and singing at political events, including the August 1963 March on Washington. During this period, she began to champion the work of folk songwriter Bob Dylan, and gradually her repertoire moved from traditional material toward the socially conscious work of the emerging generation of '60s artists like him. Her albums of this period were Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 2 (November 1963) and Joan Baez 5 (October 1964), which contained her cover of Phil Ochs' "There But for Fortune," a Top Ten hit in the U.K. Like other popular folk performers, Baez was affected by the changes in popular music wrought by the appearance of the Beatles in the U.S. in 1964 and Dylan's introduction of folk-rock in 1965, and she began to augment her simple acoustic guitar backing with other instruments, initially on Farewell, Angelina (October 1965). It was followed by a Christmas album, Noël (October 1966), and Joan (August 1967), albums on which she was accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Peter Schickele. Baez continued to experiment in the late '60s, releasing Baptism (June 1968), in which she recited poetry, and Any Day Now (December 1968), a double album of Dylan songs done with country backing, which went gold.
In March 1968, Baez had married #antiwar protest leader David Harris, who was imprisoned as a draft evader. Harris was a country music fan, and Baez's turn toward country, which continued on David's Album (June 1969) and One Day at a Time (March 1970), reflected his taste. Blessed Are... (August 1971) was a gold-selling double album that spawned a gold Top Ten hit in Baez's cover of the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." It was followed by Carry It On (December 1971), the soundtrack to a documentary about Baez and Harris. Baez switched record label affiliation to A&M Records with Come from the Shadows (May 1972), which moved her in a more pop direction. Where Are You Now, My Son? (May 1973) included sounds taped during Baez's visit to Hanoi in December 1972. In the late '60s and early '70s, Baez moved toward pop/rock music and also began to write her own songs, culminating in the gold-selling Diamonds & Rust (April 1975), which was followed by the entirely self-written Gulf Winds (October 1976). Baez moved to the Portrait label of CBS Records with Blowin' Away (June 1977), but she left the label after Honest Lullaby (May 1979), and her next album, European Tour (1980), was released only outside the U.S. It was another seven years before she found an American record label, Gold Castle, for Recently (1987), which was followed by the live album Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (January 1989) and Speaking of Dreams (October 1989). Baez moved to Virgin Records for Play Me Backwards (August 1992).
In 1993, Vanguard released Rare, Live & Classic, a three-CD boxed set retrospective. Ring Them Bells, a live album on which Baez was joined by musical descendants like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Indigo Girls, came out on Guardian Records in 1995. Gone from Danger, her first studio album in five years, followed in 1997, and it was another six years before the release of Dark Chords on a Big Guitar in 2003. A November 2004 concert in New York was documented on the 2005 release Bowery Songs. Baez's 24th studio album, Day After Tomorrow, produced by Steve Earle, was released on September 9, 2008, by Bobolink/Razor & Tie, followed by Sing Me Home almost exactly a year later in 2009.. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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Let's focus on all that gives us and others strength, comfort, and peace.
#wewillgetthroughthis #wewillgetthroughthistogether #challengingtimes #israel #grief #unimaginablepain #strength #weshallovercome
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Late in the day, I know. Better late than never, though!!
1960 Guy Carawan sings "We Shall Overcome" to a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh - popularizing the song as a protest anthem.
#onthisday #music @labr #weshallovercome -
Former Representative Justin Jones (Tennessee legislator explelled in a blatant act of racism) and a supporter Joan Baez sing “We Shall Overcome” at an airport after getting off a plane together. Joanie still has it—inspiring to see her still on the front lines!
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Rep Justin Jones: “Tennessee Republicans’ attempt to crucify democracy has resurrected it in the form of mass movement led by young people. That’s what gives me hope.”
#JustinJones #TheTennesseeThree #GunViolence #GunReform #Racism #Fascism #DemocracyUnderThreat #Resist #RiseUp #WeShallOvercome
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Justin Jones and Joan Baez sing “We Shall Overcome” at a chance airport meeting.
“When you get off the plane with the legendary Joan Baez you know it’s a movement of the spirit. She stands with us in our struggle in Tennessee and said she’s hopeful to see young voices leading.
WE SHALL OVERCOME…
Serendipitous, indeed.”
#JustinJones #JoanBaez #TennesseeThree #GunViolence #GunReform #Resistance #FightFascism #WeShallOvercome
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Deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome
Someday.
#mlk #weshallovercome #MartinLutherKingDay -
Op #electionday speel ik graag nog eens het Carnegie hall concert af van Pete Seeger. #weshallovercome of zoiets
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Today, according to the radio, is 'take a photo of nature' day.
So I took this photo of a bramble plant that had grown up the inside of a metal tube on this Heras fence.
#GoTowardsTheLight
#WeShallOvercome
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Iconic. This place. This song. This day. #OccupyGatewayOfIndia #WeShallOvercome
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Kritika_Kamra/status/1214288966083440640
