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As you research your selected guitarist, you will need to note some specific information from his or her life and career. Include the following in your final writing: Details for your written assignment: ,
 * Introduction
 * Biography
 * Discography
 * Legacy
 * Conclusion

Your Guitarist Name: Joan Baez

Write your essay here! : The guitarist I'm researching is Joan Chandos Baez. The style guitar that Joan plays is a mix of blues which is a black American ballad that is played in a 4/4 time signature. Mix of blues is played in a low melody. Laments is a really sad type of music it is almost depressing. Last but not least traditional folk is music that is passed down by the word of mouth, this music is also very traditional.The unique technique that my guitarist uses/does is that she sings with her accompaniment of her playing the guitar.

Joan is the second child of Albert Baez and Joan Bridge Baez. Albert was a physics professor while Joan Bridge was a homemaker. Joan Chandos was born on January 9, 1941 and is 72 years old today. Joan Chandos moved a lot because of her father's work. She attended a high school in California called Palo Alto. Her family and her moved to Boston in 1958. Baez attended a Fine Arts School of Drama in Boston. Joan was singing locally in coffeehouses and clubs to begin with. In 1967, Joan got arrested for supporting military induction. While she was in jail, Joan met her husband David Harris. When they got out of jail they got married. but soon after they were married her husband was arrested again. David was arrested for refusing a new job or position (induction). He left his pregnant wife and went to jail again. Joan's son, Gabriel Harris was born in December 1969. When Joan's husband got released their marriage started to fail, so they decided to get a divorce in 1973. Today Baez is still not married. Baez got her career started by singing at local coffeehouses and clubs. At one of the clubs she met singer Bob Gibson,he then invited her to go perform with him in 1959 at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Joan's first song to hit the top ten songs was "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." This song was released by Vangaurd records and this song was important to Baez's career because it was her first song to hit the top ten songs. The album that made her career really take off was " Diamonds and Rust." This album turned out to be the biggest seller of Baez's career. "Diamonds and Rust" was the first album of Baez's that was not political. Some people that influenced Joan's career were Bob Gibson, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and many others. Joan was influenced by folk music, because when she was a child that was all she would listen to.

Baez's legacy was that she has influenced four people. Those four people being Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Bonnie Raitt, and Joni Mitchell all four of them being artists themselves. In 2007, Joan's "Ring Them Bells" album was released by a European label named, Proper. Joan also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 as well as releasing her 2007 album.

Joan was a very successful women, although she had a couple of bad times by going to jail and having a husband that went back and forth to jail she was a very good women with a great career. Joan kept her head on straight with all the moving she did when she was younger and kept her grades up and stayed on the right path. She started from the bottom and went right up to the top by having a very successful career.

Works Cited

Sources : Include the source information for all of the articles or web sites that were used to complete your project. Source information is found at the end of each article in iCONN.They should also be listed in alphabetical order by the first word of the source citation. sample: "Carol Kaye." //Contemporary Musicians//. Vol. 22. Detroit: Gale, 1998. //Gale Biography In Context//. Web. 8 Jan. 2012. "Selected Websites on Carol Kaye's Life and Works." //Gale Biography in Context//. Detroit: Gale, 2008. //Gale Biography In Context//. Web. 8 Jan. 2012.

Kuhn, Laura Diane. //Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music / Compiled by Laura Kuhn. // New York: Schirmer, 1999. Print.
 * Your Source List:** Johnson, Sheila Golburgh, and Johnson Sheila Golburgh. "Joan Baez." //Musicians And Composers Of The Twentieth Century// (2009): 1. //Biography Reference Center//. Web. 21 Oct. 2013.

Guitarist Research Notes Table
//cells will expand as you enter your findings// || 1980’s, Baez acquired her first voice coach, Robert Bernard. || Baez began flirting with pop music and writing her own songs. In 1975 she released Diamonds and Rust, her first album that was not political. This album turned out to be the biggest seller of Baez’s career. || What do you like about his/her style? || Joan is still playing this music style today and so is some of the people she influenced. I like how she combines all of the styles she plays into one song and does't have certain songs be certain styles. ||
 * ** Information Feature ** ||= **Your Findings**
 * The guitar style I am researching is: || Mix of blues, laments, and traditional folk ||
 * The artist I am researching is: || Joan Chandos Baez ||
 * This guitarist lived from _ to __ || January 9, 1941-Present ||
 * Define and describe the guitar style you are researching. || Mix of blues is a traditional black American ballad style. It is 4-4 time signature, with a low melody. Laments is a really sad type of music. Traditional folk is traditional music that has been passed down by oral transmission. ||
 * What kind of musical training did the guitarist have? || She started singing locally in coffeehouses and clubs. She met the singer Bob Gibson, who invited Baez to perform with him at the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival.
 * What types of music influenced this artist? || Folk music ||
 * Name some musicians who influenced the guitarist you are researching. || Bob Gibson, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and many others. ||
 * Has this guitarist played more than one style? If so, what other styles? || The guitarist played mix of blues, laments, and traditional folk. Those three styles were her main styles that she normally played. ||
 * What type of guitar does this musician play? || The type of guitar that Joan plays is acoustic guitar. ||
 * What are some interesting facts about your guitarist’s childhood? || The second child of Albert Baez, a physics professor, and Joan Bridge Baez, a homemaker, Joan Chandos Baez moved around frequently with her family because of her father’s work with UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Baez attended high school in Palo Alto, California, and moved with her family in 1958 to Boston, then the center of the growing folk-music scene. She started singing locally in coffeehouses and clubs and attended the Fine Arts School of Drama at Boston University. ||
 * What did this guitarist do before she became famous? || She left the university to pursue her career at Club 47 in Cambridge, where she performed twice a week. She met the singer Bob Gibson, who invited Baez to perform with him at the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival. This performance generated a certain amount of publicity and led to Baez’s signing with Vanguard Records the following year. ||
 * List two interesting facts about the guitarist’s life. || In 1967, arrested for supporting the right to refuse military induction, Baez met David Harris in jail. They soon wed, but Harris was arrested for refusing induction in July, 1969, leaving his pregnant wife to appear at the Woodstock Festival and other events. Their son, Gabriel Harris, was born in December, 1969. On Harris’s release the marriage began to fail, and the couple divorced in 1973. Baez never remarried. ||
 * List two albums or songs your artist released, the dates they were released and why they are important. || The following year after her first album release, her second release, titled //Joan Baez, Vol. 2//, was a big hit. This song was important because it was her first big seller. Her album was released by Vanguard Records in 1960. During the next few years Baez emerged at the forefront of the American folk song revival, culminating her work at Vanguard with the Top 10 song, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” This song was important because it was her first song to hit the top 10 charts.
 * Who is playing this style of music today?
 * What legacy has this guitarist left to the world of music? || Baez had a direct influence on such artists as Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Bonnie Raitt, and Joni Mitchell. In 2007 Baez’s live album //Ring Them Bells// was rereleased by Proper, a European label, with a six-page booklet and five unreleased song tracks from the original recording sessions. Also, Baez was the recipient of 2007’s Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. ||