Joan Baez is in the midst of examining her life as the subject of a new documentary, Joan Baez: I Am a Noise. Among the many revelations is that, at a very young age, she gravitated toward sad music. What she learned early on was to embrace the music of struggle as a way to rise above the sadness. Joan talks with Marc about the emergence of the folk scene in Cambridge and Boston, how her deeply ingrained pacifism shaped her activism, and how she put in the work to rebuild her relationship with her son. <p>Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast">https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast</a>.</p>

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