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I put the record on only to hear aircraft noise, a siren, scraps of words and a rumble in the distance. Then a male voice saying something about a "jet" and a "bomb." I couldn't understand much more with my poor English at the time.

I was 13 years old — and disappointed. What was this? Why wasn't I hearing a happy song, like the "We shall overcome" I'd first heard at my friend's place?

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After all, that's why I'd bought the album for five Deutschmarks at the flea market. It took a while before she finally started singing. And it took me even longer to understand the significance of this Joan Baez… 

Panic attacks, Anne Frank in Baghdad and a ukulele 

Joan Chandos Baez was born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York to Albert Baez, a Mexican-born physicist, and Joan Bridge, born in Scotland.

She was the second of three daughters. 

Her father's work led the family to move often; they lived on the Ea