The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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For decades, Barbara Dane lent her stellar singing voice to social-justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond, garneri | dG1fWXA3cDRNWWlIU0U

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00:00 [music]

00:03 Now please welcome, Barbara Dan.

00:05 [applause]

00:15 One, two, three, four.

00:18 It's so nice, it could be illegal

00:21 Meeting you once more

00:24 Feeling so good, could be against the law

00:28 I was carrying a guitar around and singing

00:32 everything I could get my hands on.

00:34 I always had a very open-minded approach to music.

00:38 She's as much of a blues and a folk artist

00:41 as she is a jazz artist.

00:42 She could sing anything, and she sings it

00:44 with passion and authenticity and originality.

00:47 She was hot and cool at the same time.

00:50 On the dry land, chasing heat

00:52 It'll never make any change in me

00:55 I've got that old-fashioned love in my heart

01:00 This is something that's unique to Barbara.

01:02 I can't think of anybody else who's recording

01:04 for Folkways and Capitol, you know,

01:07 the label of Woody Guthrie and of Frank Sinatra.

01:10 I'm gonna walk, talk, go to the Prince of Peace

01:15 Down by the river, Siphonia

01:20 They told me I couldn't make a record with Jimmy Witherspoon

01:23 because it was impossible to put a black man

01:25 and a white woman on an album.

01:27 Isn't that ridiculous?

01:28 So I just went ahead and put my face up.

01:30 There were four guys.

01:32 And to hell with all that.

01:34 We broke all the rules.

01:35 Broke all the rules, broke all the rules.

01:37 That's why.

01:38 They make rules for us to break them.

01:41 I'm a troublemaker.

01:43 I made them a lot of trouble.

01:44 These people went to a lot of trouble.

01:47 I mean...

01:49 (speaking Spanish)

01:58 She was the first important American artist

02:02 who came to Cuba, I think, after the Revolution.

02:05 Everybody knew her name.

02:07 We won't go and we just ain't gonna go

02:11 You know, I raised three kids while I was doing all this

02:17 singing and running around the world.

02:20 If you have ethics and you don't want to sell your music,

02:28 but still you have to make a living,

02:30 it's kind of a tightrope walk.

02:33 Oh, freedom

02:36 Oh, freedom

02:40 Oh, freedom

02:43 Cover me, cover me

02:47 She was an artist, and she had a commitment

02:51 to justice and freedom and the movement,

02:54 and she turned all her art to that end.

02:57 Ain't gonna let no lying politician

03:00 Turn me around, turn me around

03:03 Oh, turn me around

03:05 Ain't gonna let no lying politician

03:08 Turn me around

03:10 Keep on walking, marching out the freedom

03:14 (laughing)

The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer

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