”Just don’t mention Bob Dylan and we’ll get on fine.” Joan Baez to Joe Jackson in 1993.

<p>In 1993, I had a weekly. music slot for The Irish Times and, frankly, there were few musicians who didn't want a three-quarter page spread in that newspaper. Amid the hundreds I interviewed, there were those, such as Joan Baez, who I admired deeply, in her case politically as well as musically, and it was a joy to talk with her. </p>