Rolling Stone — Photo: Getty Folk singer Odetta, the “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” died of heart disease in New York yesterday, December 2nd. She was 77. An influence to singers like Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez and countless more, “The Queen of ... more info

All About Jazz — Jackson Browne headlines weekend's benefit for hurricane relief includes sets by Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez and Ry Cooder at the Santa Monica Civic TONIGHT Some had long since figured Jackson Browne's days of folk-pop rabble-rousing in the political ... more info

Mercury News, California — They seem an unlikely pairing '” Joan Baez, the crystalline-voiced queen of folk, and alt-country hero Steve Earle, the once-notorious 'last of the hard-core troubadours.' But at 67, Baez is winning rave reviews for her terrific, eloquent new colla... more info

Detroit Free Press — 2008 marks 50 years of Baez's blending of music with international social and political activism. more info

CNN Showbiz — Joan Baez is in a celebratory mood. And rightly so: She's survived 50 years in show business. Her new album is produced by Steve Earle. And, she says, a look deep inside has helped her put aside the sadness she felt for so long. more info

Star Online, Malaysia — From the outset of her career a half-century ago, Joan Baez has possessed a distinctive, spine-tingling three-octave voice. more info

Pitchfork — On November 24, fine art auction house Christie's will host an auction of punk, rock, soul, and reggae memorabilia called "Pop Culture: Punk/Rock" at its 20 Rockefeller Plaza location in New York City [via Idolator]. Well-to-do aging punk rockers: He... more info

New York Times — If anyone ought to recognize a great antiwar song when it comes along, it is Joan Baez, who appeared at Town Hall on Tuesday in a career retrospective celebrating her 50th year in show business. more info

Idolator — Our look at the closing lines of reviews of the week's biggest new music continues with a spin through writeups of Pink's Funhouse, which arrives in U.S. stores tomorrow: • "A few Billy Mann-produced ballads suggest she could've had an old-school s... more info

All About Jazz — Word has just come in that William Claxton died on Saturday in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. He was eighty. With his pictures of Chet Baker in the early 1950s, Claxton established himself as a brilliant photographer of jazz musicians and w... more info