'Joan Baez'

Joan Baez recorded her eponymous debut album in four days in the ballroom of a hotel in New York City. According to an interview, she and the producers could use the room in every day but Tuesday because bingo was hosted that day.

It was just Baez, her guitar and a pair of microphones. Some songs took one take and they moved on. A very stripped down, simple album filled with folk and kiddie songs.

Baez had a very interesting home life. Her grandfather Alberto Baez was a Catholic-turned-Methodist minister, who emigrated his family to the United States from Mexico. Her father, Albert, considered the ministry before turning to physics and mathematics and being a co-inventor of the x-ray microscope and writing one of the most popular physics textbooks in the United States.

Early on, the family converted to Quakerism. Her mother was Scottish and the daughter of of an Anglican priest. The family also lived all around the world due to the father's work in science.