Joan Baez covers Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice," live at the Greek Theatre, October 6, 2019 (HD)

Joan Baez plays a cover of the Bob Dylan song "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" live in concert at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California on October 6, 2019. She was invited onstage by Lana Del Rey during her Norman F*****g Rockwell tour. They played a duet of Baez's song "Diamonds & Rust," and then Del Rey asked her to stay on for one more song. To view all the songs I shot at this show, including the Diamonds & Rust duet, please see this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwdc0qZNx0tYaPRTnKTwuY9W3gtIrSucK "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" originally appeared on the 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. It was based on the song "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone" by folksinger Paul Clayton, who in turn based it on the traditional song "Who's Gonna Buy Your Chickens When I'm Gone." Baez released a cover of the song not long after Dylan's original in 1963. She later recorded another version with the Indigo Girls, and has frequently played the song in her live sets over the years. ====================================== Don't Think Twice, It's Alright lyrics: It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don’t matter, anyhow An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now When your rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I’ll be gone You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on Don’t think twice, it’s all right It ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe That light I never knowed An’ it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe I’m on the dark side of the road Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say To try and make me change my mind and stay We never did too much talkin’ anyway So don’t think twice, it’s all right It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal Like you never did before It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal I can’t hear you anymore I’m a-thinkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all the way down the road I once loved a woman, a child I’m told I give her my heart but she wanted my soul But don’t think twice, it’s all right I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe Where I’m bound, I can’t tell But goodbye’s too good a word, gal So I’ll just say fare thee well I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind You could have done better but I don’t mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don’t think twice, it’s all right Written by Bob Dylan ======================================= Joan Baez official bio: From the beginning, the life’s work of Joan Baez was mirrored in her music. At a point when it was neither safe nor fashionable, she put herself on the line, singing about freedom and Civil Rights everywhere, from the backs of flatbed trucks in Mississippi to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at Dr. King’s March on Washington in 1963. She participated in the birth of the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley, and co-founded the Institute For The Study Of Nonviolence near her home in Carmel Valley. She stood in fields alongside Cesar Chavez and migrant farm workers striking for fair wages, and opposed capital punishment during a Christmas vigil at San Quentin. The soundtrack for the turbulent ’60s is heard on Joan’s remarkably timeless Vanguard LPs. In 1968, she began a four-year recording stint in Nashville, with Music City’s famed “A-Team” backing her biggest career single, a cover of the Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (1971). During this time, Joan traveled to Hanoi, and later helped establish Amnesty International on the West Coast. In 1975, her self-penned “Diamonds & Rust” began its course as a beloved (and frequently covered) American standard. Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tours of late 1975 and ’76 (and resulting film, Renaldo & Clara, 1978) co-starred Joan Baez. Joan Baez has long been a musical and social force of nature of incalculable influence. She marched in Northern Ireland with the Irish Peace People in 1978, appeared at rallies on behalf of the nuclear freeze movement, and performed at benefit concerts to defeat California legislation that would have banned openly gay people from teaching in public schools. She received the American Civil Liberties Union’s Earl Warren Award for her commitment to human and civil rights issues; and founded the Humanitas International Human Rights Committee, which she headed for 13 years. She dedicated her first entirely Spanish album to Chileanos who suffered under the rule of Augusto Pinochet. In 1981, hostile authoritarian regimes across Latin America tried to prevent her concerts there – three decades later, her return tour of 1984 was heralded as a triumphant success. The intervening years have been a historic ride, beginning with Joan’s April 2017 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Shortly after the event, she announced that in 2018, she would begin her last formal tour. The “Fare Thee Well” tour began in March 2018 in Stockholm, and concluded in Madrid in July 2019, after 134 sold out performances across the US and Europe.

Added 17 Jun 2026