Barbara Dane
One of the leading protest singers of the early 1960s in the United States,
Barbara Dane's music spanned blues, folk and jazz. Born Barbara Jean Spillman in
Detroit, Michigan, on May 12, 1927, her youth was marked by racial segregation,
and she abandoned her university studies to sing at demonstrations and perform
with bands. In 1957, the independent label San Francisco Records offered her the
opportunity to record her first album, Trouble in Mind, in which she covered
blues classics. Acclaimed for her interpretation by the revival of the genre in
the late 1950s, she rubbed shoul...
