Joan Baez "There But For Fortune" at the 92nd Street Y

Joan Baez talks with Anthony DeCurtis about the songwriters of the 60s and performs "There But For Fortune" written by Phil Ochs. This event took place at the 92nd Street Y on September 4, 2008.

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[MignonB1]

I agree... Joan is as BEAUTIFUL as ever

and her voice still sounds wonderful to me even if the register is a little lower now by her own admission. Lovely clip!

[juliejazz]

Agree. Although I don't think Joan was too keen on Phil on a personal level. Fair or not, I'll blame that on Bobby Dylan! The young Bobby Dylan.

Anthony DeCurtis wrote the liner notes for "The War is Over; The Best of Phil Ochs".

[a1n2d3e4r5s]

Joan es una gran cantante que admiramos mucho aqui en nuestro México desde los anos sesenta.

[Ariennezita]

Joan, maravillosa mujer.

[stlivermore]

3:39

Nice video, thanx for uploading.

[cechansler]

its odd Phil wrote this song and was playing it for a while and then Baez went to england and made it a huge hit.

i prefer Phil

[lovinSpoonful]

This video is a bit scary - she looks very tired and a little frail. Hope she's well. Love you, Joanie.

[folkmusicgirl]

Joan still sings beautifully. However I wonder about what age she was when she really noticed a great significance in the lower register of her singing voice?

She used to have this incredible soaring soprano voice...and is it only age or other factors that cause the noticeable change from singing high soaring soprano to a lower register? I noticed it definitely with Joni Mitchell but she was/is a heavy smoker which did cause her vocal change but Joan was not a smoker.

[elusiverobertdenby]

She was at the War Is Over concert and dueted with Ochs there. I think that was his last big concert before the John Butler Train personality took him over. Sad. But it's wonderful to hear his songs played by such a talented musician.

[taddyd1]

Baez praised Ochs gifts in several interviews I've read through the years. She claims her highly controversial South American tour in 1981 was inspired out of guilt for her flaking out on the Ochs benefit for the Chile/ Allende tragedy. Didn't they appear together at the huge Central Park "War is Over Concert" (w/ that still toublemaking Harry Belafonte)? Ochs had high praise for Joan Baez's talent in repeated interviews as well.

[mthivier]

From what little I've read about Ochs, it seems he was a decent enough guy, not malicious, though very neurotic and a bit of a pain in the ass to be around (and supposedly insanely jealous of Dylan's success), so Joan may have avoided him for those reasons. I did read that she did not appear at a benefit concert he had organized in the early '70s, which he took as a personal affront. She has always spoken highly about his talent as a songwriter though.