Joan Baez

In quick succession, Baez celebrated joyful landmark years in 2008-2009, marking the 50th anniversary of both her renowned residency in 1958 at the famed Club 47 in Cambridge and her subsequent debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. These milestones coincided with the Grammy-nominated album, Day After Tomorrow (September 2008), which was recorded in Nashville and produced by Steve Earle. Of the release, the Boston Globe proclaimed, ''A half century into her career, folk icon Joan Baez is making a return of sorts?not to vintage material, but to songs that evoke the spirit and message of her defining early work?Baez has never sounded wiser, or more deeply human.'' Moreover, in 2009, Baez was profiled in Public Television's American Masters documentary, Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound.