The American Right’s Joan Baez
Not every 1960s folk singer was a comrade.
As the folk revival movement swept through the country, helmed by leftist musicians like Joan Baez, the Right equipped its own champion with a guitar: Janet Greene. A former children’s television star, Greene was tapped by Fred Schwarz, founder of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC), to be his anti-Baez in 1964. On her 1966 album, […]