stranger song, leonard cohen / house of auvers, vincent van gogh / shelter from the storm, bob dylan / illustration from in training for health / diamonds and rust, joan baez
(photographer unknown)
Loretta’s Piece
(12.09.73.)
Rose was first thought
remembering was coming
but put back almost worn out.
Now – when roses bloom
not trying for anything.
Now when I am and am not
then or pretty soon.
Now when words burn meaningless
giving warmth
to bodies
already left behind
the thoughts are all,
growing weeds
coiling snakes
blooming
gaping
the flesh we cared for
the planet…
So obsessed with Joan Baez saying that really the only negative thing to come out of her 70s quaalude addiction was that while high as hell she ended up creating a horrible album cover in which she’s posing weirdly dressed like a pilot that she describes as "the worst, ugliest cover, not just in my career but a lot of people's"
Folk singer and activist Joan Baez greets Palestinian children of Jalazone refugee camp, on May 12, 1988 near Ramallah, during her visit in the West Bank territory.
I couldn’t stop looking at her, didn’t want to blink. She was wicked looking—shiny black hair that hung down over the curve of slender hips, drooping lashes, partly raised, no Raggedy Ann doll. The sight of her made me high. All that and her voice. It was a voice that drove out bad spirits. It was like she’d come down from another planet.
Bob Dylan on Joan Baez, Chronicles, Vol. One, 2004