--UNOFFICIAL-- BotB: Singers & Songwriters: Dan Fogelberg vs Joan Baez

[a21schizoidman]

DAN FOGELBERG

Daniel Grayling Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music.

Leader of the Band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3GHCy49Dw

Same Old Lang Syne:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhjYbfK9vrk

Longer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAHHWb783VE

Run For the Roses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDwm3QIwfg

Missing You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iyXOEucrgc


vs

JOAN BAEZ

Joan Chandos Baez (born in Staten Island, NYC, USA, on January 9, 1941, to Mexican and British parents) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. She is a soprano with a three-octave vocal range[1] and a distinctively rapid vibrato. Many of her songs are topical and deal with social issues.

She is best known for her hit "Diamonds & Rust" and her covers of Phil Ochs' "There But For Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (a top-five single on the U.S. charts in 1971), and to a lesser extent,"We Shall Overcome," "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word" and "Farewell Angelina", as well as, "Sweet Sir Galahad," and "Joe Hill" (songs she performed at the 1969 Woodstock festival). She is also well known due to her early and long-lasting relationship with Bob Dylan and her even longer-lasting passion for activism, notably in the areas of nonviolence, civil and human rights and, in more recent years, the environment. She has performed publicly for nearly 50 years, released over 30 albums and recorded songs in at least eight languages. She is considered a folk singer although her music has strayed from folk considerably after the 1960s, encompassing everything from rock and pop to country and gospel. Although a songwriter herself, especially in the mid-1970s, Baez is most often regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, covering songs by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and myriad others. In more recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of diverse songwriters such as Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant and Ryan Adams.

Diamonds & Rust:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMHSbcd_qI

Sweet Sir Galahad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWwF8WlIqlY

Prison Trilogy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffRYzRGmwHE

Joe Hill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XfkFa3CEqE

Honest Lullaby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmGPq2FO4ck

[a21schizoidman]

its now day 2, vote!!!

[sg327]

Oh....Dan Fogelberg.

[JukeBoxHero]

I'll choose Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust is a great song especially when Judas Priest covered in it.

[a21schizoidman]

voting ends tomorrow night

[OldFogey]

Joan's not much of a songwriter in my opinion, but just about anything is better that Fogelberg (don't let my wife know I said that ). SO -- by default, Joan.

[a21schizoidman]

/voting

Joan wins 3-2