{"id":1052,"date":"2016-05-19T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2017-06-03T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T18:01:11","slug":"banks-of-the-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/banks-of-the-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks of the Ohio (Joan Baez)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Banks of the Ohio\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LITT13CYOd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a teenager I rarely found anyone my own age who had the slightest interest in the music I liked, but towards the end of high school I discovered that one of my classmates, Perian Flaherty, sang folk songs, and we went out a couple of times and sang on the street together &#8212; at least, I remember singing with her once on Palmer Street in Harvard Square, outside Passim Coffeehouse. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1055\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/joan-baez-songbook.jpg?resize=204%2C272\" alt=\"joan baez songbook\" width=\"204\" height=\"272\" \/> Perian&#8217;s repertoire was mostly from Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, and at that point I didn&#8217;t know any Joni Mitchell, so Baez was where we overlapped.<\/p>\n<p>I had never really been a Baez fan. 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