Tag Archives: Joan Baez

letting a good time roll

Joan Baez was introduced to her first large gathering of afficionados by Chicago’s ebullient troubadour Bob Gibson, at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, and the audience, which had come to see the famous Oscar Brand, Odetta, Earl Scruggs, and Jean … Continue reading

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pantomine for peace

Its not that evident to grasp Jane Fonda’s adherence to the Left, the kind of knee-jerk conventional responses that seem impersonal and remote. One has to wonder if her committment to the Left, much like Picasso, was really a subscription … Continue reading

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dymo-mite

by Art Chantry ( Art@artchantry.com ) labelmaker was a big cheapo solution for typography back in the early punk days. you saw it everywhere, on record covers, posters, zines. you could literally buy a label maker gun (especially the gutbucket … Continue reading

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old wild men

The terse mottoes, the defiant songs. These were the liturgy and hymnody of the One Big Union’s cause.To the hard-bitten laborers of the I.W.W., the union was a home, a church, and a holy crusade.It lived always in the blast … Continue reading

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bellingham

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) This little poster is from the mid 1970’s, back when i was a student still attending western washington state college (later ‘university) in bellingham, washington. that’s a town about 60 miles from the canadian border in … Continue reading

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VANISHING POINTS: A DRIFTER’S ESCAPE

In America you’ll get food to eat Won’t have to run through the jungle And scuff up your feet You’ll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day It’s great to be an American…( Randy Newman, Sail Away) Dustin … Continue reading

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BLOWING OFF STEAM: THE BLACK ENGINE THAT MIGHT

”The train is going over to the other side of the mountain when she stops suddenly… The train breaks down! And all the toys and animals are sad but the clown cheers everyone up when he sees a train coming … Continue reading

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