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Joan Baez Talks Meeting Her Girlfriend Kimmie in This New I Am A Noise Clip
The legendary musician and activist is getting her story told in the new documentary from Magnolia Pictures.
Joan Baez is getting the legendary spotlight she rightfully deserves!
The iconic bisexual singer-songwriter, who is known just as much for her activism and decades-long fight for multiple social causes as she is for her music, is the subject of a new documentary from Magnolia Pictures, Joan Baez I Am A Noise.
Combining clips and pictures from her life, interviews, and new footage from her final farewell tour, I Am A Noise is an intimate, personal look at one of the music industry's most beloved names that we've never seen before. In the doc, Baez even opens up about dating a woman named Kimmie, whom she had a relationship with for multiple years.
Directed by Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, and Karen O’Connor, I Am A Noise is "a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings," the film's official description reads.
"Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and off stage - from her lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work with MLK and a heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan. A searingly honest look at a living legend, this film is a compelling and deeply personal exploration of an iconic artist who has never told the full truth of her life, as she experienced it, until now."
And Out has a brand new clip from the doc, where Baez talks about meeting and starting a relationship with her girlfriend Kimmie!
"She was great," Baez says about Kimmie in the clip. "She could out-drink anybody on the coast and she served for seven hours at a time and all this wonderful stuff that I didn't do. She was more feral than I was, didn't have any consciousness of rules and regulations. We were tearing around town in boots and cutoffs and suspenders and weird hair and headbands. Just ruffians."
"We ended up together," she continued. "It was a major turn. What it gave me was another whole angle on love, another whole angle on sex. A couple of years it lasted, a nice couple of years. I think, probably soothing after men."
Watch the clip in the video below.
I Am A Noise is now playing in New York and will expand to Los Angeles and other markets on Friday, October 13.
Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, and critic.
Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, and critic.
