The US singer-songwriter, who has died aged 97, encountered Louis Armstrong and more as she championed civil rights as much as music. In her final interview conducted last week, she explained why she was still angry
As a singer-songwriter who was as devoted to social change as she was to her craft, Barbara Dane, who has died aged 97, is a singularly inspiring figure in American music.
Amid a crop of reissues and a new film, I spoke to her just last week over the phone as she was cared for in a home hospice in Oakland, California, due to heart disease. As a singer, songwriter and activist over almost 80 years, finding kinship with everyone from Bob Dylan to Louis Armstrong, she demonstrated formidable quantities of courage and compassion, as documented in that new film, The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane.
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