Joan Baez - It Ain't Me, Babe (Live 1966)

[plpesuti]

can you dig it? too real.

[MemphisBlueAgain]

Now WHAT is so beautiful about that mouth? It sings mellowly, honestly and slowly is all I can say...Besides, SHE was a real beauty!

[ZZBob777]

I doubt very much that Bob wrote this song for Joan. It doesn't fit her personality. Joan was always a mother figure for Bob.

[StevePalRP]

Dylan wrote this song to her, telling her that it's over. What an irony!

But Joan turns the table on Dylan with the reverse irony, which is very clear when listening .

She sings it better than Dylan ever could!

Joan has the best voice in music, without an equal.

[mirtillosa65]

Beautiful voice!

[soczez]

Anyone still has version with Dylan from Newport?! (I guess '63) spontaneous and so graet ;)

[SimplyCecileP]

she is just naturally beautiful. when she was younger around this time she almost had an American Indian look to her. I want to grow my hair as a test of patience. and I want it to look this beautiful. I also would like to play this song this beautifully.. Just a voice and a guitar, simply beautiful the way it is. This is what I want when I write my songs myself.... such inspiration. I'm glad I was turned to discover Joan some time ago.

[LABRIEGA77]

What's IRONIC is that this is a Dylan's song... tastes sour isn't it?

[Rengoth]

@LABRIEGA77 Not so sour, if you acept that he was the better writer and she had the sweeter voice. ;-)

It´s not easy to beat Dylan in wrting songs.

[Calinn86]

i wonder how dylan took this message..

[om92555]

Just Joan and her guitar. Simple and beautiful.

[hallnoats4ever]

i know, no band just her and a guitar not many people could pull that off

[solice8844]

Raw beauty in voice, talent, looks, and the ability to touch one's inner soul and heart.

[Calinn86]

i wouldn't give a damn if she was ugly as a dog ran over by a train.. but you're right, being beautifull as she is makes her even more special

[om92555]

Dude, she has written quite a few songs if you ever really paid attention to her career.

[janaherde]

I also thing that dose ignorant people suck, they allways say she doesn't write anything herself, but it's not true at all. We all like to listen to her, singing Bob Dylan's songs, or others, so why stop doing it... but she has got as you say "quite a few songs on her own".

[batitony]

who says that looks and talent can't go hand in hand ?

[juliyjacke]

HER VOICE IS MAGIC

[ReBel1US]

This later rendition, you can see the lost look,compare to her on R.A.Z (aka Bob Dylan) Very inspiring and Beautiful Joan,Love this.... Peace,Rod:)))

[perryfan10]

A beautiful part of this music is her youth. I'm not a big fan of reunion tours and the like because what I miss is gone.

[kblixt]

Beautiful woman.

[whitethrashband]

so butiful<3

[AnneLiseMham]

:O

Perfect :)

[VincentJVera]

That's such a beautiful guitar....And voice, haha..Check out my cover..

[srijita77]

timeless

[mpdandin]

haha, funny!

[ABnagelz]

Yes... yes, yes, yes....

[Dontmakemespankyou]

I love her eyes :) so big & dark

[smudgle]

absolutely beautiful

[EdEckersley]

whats nostalgic about that? pro tools and logic allows anyone to record, yes, but why bother when someone can play a song like this so perfectly in one take?

[sooz62350]

Beautiful face. Beautiful voice. And what a great song.

[Manicpanicanticant]

i dont think there's a true version of this song, i mean bob dylan i heard what type of song he tried to make, but it only touches the song it shoulda' been, same with this,

but still a big OMFG this Ghuud!

[EdEckersley]

still fantastic from my point of view at 24. cant stop the feeling they hold back artists nowadays

[sometimessadandlost]

i remember when i was young i have cried when i was listening this sung realy beautifull, looking this video does the same work again in my hart

[leslieclark54]

All of the clips from this show are so good. Very clear, good quality. We are lucky to have them.

[laikachannel]

noway, i think johnny cash destroyed it a little, nothing against johnny cash, hes amazing but this song is made to sound like the original.

[Deftones2137]

sorry but cash did it best

[rouky03]

she's so beautifule, so pure, so... amazing.

[litenogsot]

I love Bob Dylan, but I really much prefer Joan's version of this song.

Her voice is sooo beautiful. It makes the hair on my arms stand on end.

[BesACB]

Her voice is maidenly and matronly at the same time. Tantalizing combination. And her eyes!!!

[SunnBurn]

Just my opinion, but I think the Turtles' version from 1965 smokes them all.

[torchkit]

Yeah, I can agree with that.

[Tinkerstar13]

Her voice is astounding, kind of haunting. But not in a creepy way in a soulful, timeless kind of way.

[MaximusMission]

She sounds amazing.

[passionistpriest]

Have you heard Dylan's early version of this song? Baez does Dylan better than Dylan.

[domandbren]

I Disagree Dylan in my opinion Dylan's is better although she does sing it good

[passionistpriest]

Dylan's earliest version, where his voice is off-key is the version I was referring to. His voice did improve. His later versions of the song are much better.

[passionistpriest]

Dylan is a universal legend in his own time. His songs are ageless, timeless; however, whether his voice in the early years of his career is better than Baez is a moot point.

[Raymantico]

Bravissimo.

[nosferatudasvampir]

Her guitar playing is AMAZING!

[Chad48309]

Wow, she's had that guitar for quite some time, then. She played the same guitar for a moment (Love is Just a Four Letter Word) in No Direction Home.

[Tangerine08]

Wasn't this a Johnny Cash and June Carter song?? Even so I love her cover its great!

[HideFromMaster]

no it's a dylan.. cash and dylan really digged eachothers work to he did a duet with june

[bookishmuch]

god she's pretty. makes girls like me jealous. and without any makeup either......grrr.....

[mthivier]

And have you seen her lately? She's pushin' 70, but she's STILL beautiful.

[StephenVoith]

beautiful because hers is inner, spiritual beauty.

[passionistpriest]

She is timeless, ageless with the voice of an angel!

[pghpa611]

It was the second installment of "In Concert" that features Baez' first ever Bob Dylan cover. From the early to mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival, where she introduced her audiences to the then-unknown Bob Dylan (the two became romantically involved in late 1962, remaining together through early 1965), and was emulated by artists such as Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt.

[pghpa611]

The country-infused David's Album recorded for husband David Harris, a prominent anti-Vietnam War protester and organizer eventually imprisoned for draft resistance. The pair married in 1968 and divorced in 1973. Harris, a country music fan, turned Baez toward more complex country rock influences beginning with David's Album.

[pghpa611]

In the tumultuous year that was 1968, Baez traveled to Nashville, where a marathon recording session resulted in not one, but two albums: Any Day Now, a record consisting exclusively of Dylan covers one, "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word," was never recorded by Dylan and has become a Baez staple.

[ScooterNerd]

She and Dylan sing it in their own unique, wonderful way.

[shan789mudge]

wow. she is so beautiful. Her voice is beautiful too. so is the song.

[martinmystere]

right now i wanna kick bob dylan s ass!

[thaliasghost]

LOL..he deserves it.

[Normanskie]

Love is just a four letter word.

[bigdjindustriez]

Johnny and June did a good job of this one on the Dylan birthday concert...but I do like Joan..very beautiful lady, nice voice too

[HyperlogiK]

I find it ironic that many of the best 'Dylan' songs are covers recorded by other people.

[lisababy85]

really? She does have a beautiful voice but she never wore make up? Really???  Wow!! She is beautiful!

[alan6102000]

I am a man, and I literally cannot watch her face the entire song..........wow

btw, are there any girls like her that still exist?

If so, where? :)

[Soniags]

Great voice, great artist, great woman anytime.

[tipita]

she's okay, but she's not Dylan

the original version is way way better

[mthivier]

Not better, just different.

[taddyd1]

different is how a great singer like aretha or joan approaches a song. you may like the original better but joan always adds a new demension or perspective.

[tipita]

Course she does. But the thing about Joan and his voice is that she makes the song ghostlike, with her operatic voice. If you like it, that's fine by me, but I think that the whole idea about Dylan music is his raw honest voice. He sings his guts out. And I think the way Baez de-hearts it is really sad and, quite frankly, ridiculous. It's a mockery. A parody.

[listerone]

Dylan's early compositions were of such a nature that they could performed in sunstantially different ways and still have credibility.We agree that Dylan's voice brought something great to his early songs.But Baez did a fine job on "It Ain't Me,Babe",Judy Collins did an amazing job with "Tamborine Man" and Hendrix...well,we all know what Hendrix did.

[mthivier]

I don't think it's a mockery or a parody at all. Dylan and Baez were inseparable for a few years during the early '60s, they were very much a part one one another's lives, and so it's appropriate that she sing these songs. I actually think, from a Joan, the Byrds and Judy Collins are the only ones who ever really "got" Dylan.

[seanlu5]

no true at all. she just brings her own style. of course i like dylan's version better but you gotta respect joan's voice and style.

[ceb2633]

She was the voice of an age. Lovely, wonderful vibrato...operatic? You must be nuts. Obviously, you are about 12.

[taddyd1]

there's nothin operatic about her version of Ain't Me Babe here , its basically pure Carter Family (albeit with perfect pitch and sligltly more nuance). She's a tad more mournful and a little bit nicer to the jilted party than Bob was. There's no one approach to any great song. Bob braggs about all the covers of his songs.

[musicaltheatergeek79]

We're talking about Joan, not June.

[taddyd1]

We're talking about Joan using the same singing approach as the Original Carters: AP,Anita & Maybelle. She's used it when singing in many different genres. Its a subtle, non-dramatic (the opposite of Strisand) approach where the singer sings from an introverted perspective and let's the inner emotion of the song speak for it self without too many special effects tacked on.

[taddyd1]

And you know Joan's voice has a lot more bells and whistles than she employs on this performance. She does hit all the notes properly which is a crime to some folk fans.

Linda Ronstadt once replied that she avoided Dylan's songbook because his melodies are so difficult to sing and "he never worries about hitting al the notes but I have to"

[pescadordecoplas]

¡Joan eres maravillosa!

[u1969]

Joan's voice is absolutely too beautiful for words.

[om92555]

One of my favorite Joan Baez covering Dylan songs. Just her and her guitar.

[KrisShred]

Ah.. love her great voice