This afternoon Jim and I will join Mike and Julie in a Get Outta Here to Louisville to see and hear Joan Baez. We're hoping to leave Cincinnati before rush hour and arrive in Louisville in time to catch a bite to eat.
Seeing Joan Baez is one more event in my list of legendary folk singers I would like to see/hear/meet. So far its been Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Tom Paxton, Jean Ritchie and more folks I can't think of right at the moment. I was sad to have never seen Odetta. What a legend she was!
I was privileged to have the chance to spend time with Jean Ritchie on several occasions when we brought her to town for concerts. Being a Ritchie by birth, I can only hope that we are somehow related.
I talked with Judy Collins and Tom Paxton and that, too, was wonderful.
Judy, Joni and Joan were huge influences on my learning to play music as a teenager. I guess that goes for most girls my age! Now my role model is Jean Ritchie who said that its the words that matter along with Pete Seeger who is still going strong at 90.
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