In the words of Anthony DeCurtis, the songs of Joan Baez "are nothing less than invitations to a life of social meaning, to view ourselves as part of a larger community whose fate is inextricable from our own, to make that fate better for all." As she enters her eighth decade, Joan hasn't slowed down a bit. Today, as she did in the 1960s and 1970s, Joan Baez draws on the best music of the most vital songwriters of the times. Her characteristic vibrato is undimmmed, and on her superb recent albums she has recorded songs by the likes of Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Tom Waits, and Eliza Gilkyson. "All of us are survivors," Joan once wrote. "But how many of us transcend survival?" Joan Baez has done just that. Whatever she sings, Joan Baez not only rivets us with the beauty of her music but also challenges us to become more than we were.