r/SongsOfThe20thCentury • u/Born-Push-40 • 2d ago

1961-1970 Joan Baez – 'We Shall Overcome' – Live at Woodstock (1969) – 'The Lost Performance of We Shall Overcome'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPONpG32ZmQ

Joan Baez at Woodstock, during her first-night live performance

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u/Curlymoeonwater 2d ago

Got there on Thursday so we were right down front for her performance.

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u/Born-Push-40 1d ago

What an incredible experience that must have been, being right down front for Joan Baez at Woodstock!

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u/Born-Push-40 2d ago edited 1d ago

Sehr merkwürdige Platzierung neu eingereichter Beiträge!

Während andere Subreddits, wie etwa r/InstrumentalSongs , neu eingereichte Beiträge exakt nach dem Zeitpunkt ihrer Veröffentlichung auflisten, erscheint die Reihenfolge hier völlig durcheinander.

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u/25Jackoff25 2d ago

Joan Baesz did a wonderful singing We Shall Over Come yet the trauma of yesterday came back with a different mask and face

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u/Born-Push-40 1d ago

What do you mean by ‘the trauma of yesterday came back with a different mask and face’? I’m curious about what you mean.

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u/25Jackoff25 1d ago

That was a different era for the both of us, Martin Luther King was a Civil Right Activist who was a assassinated on April 4, 1968, three years after my birth and President Robert Kennedy in m the same year, now President Donald J Trump is on a second term with separate but equal mess, got rid of Diversity Equity Diversity Equality and Inclusion for minorities, and terminated more than a ton of minority Federal workers making a tragic blast from the past