Joan Baez, the folk singing legend who once performed before half a million people at Woodstock, took a lonely tumble while climbing down from a tree house behind her Woodside home Wednesday. She was taken to the emergency room at Stanford Hospital, where it was determined she had suffered only minor injuries.
A spokeswoman said Baez was "resting comfortably" Thursday.
Baez, 69, was at the forefront of a musical movement that began in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, with hit songs such as "Joe Hill" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." She performed the first cover of a song written by a young unknown named Bob Dylan, with whom she was involved romantically from 1962 to 1965.
The Sixties songbird had the platform built in an oak tree so she could sleep next to actual birds, who nest in the branches around her. "I sleep in a tree all summer long," Baez told an English blogger in 2008. "I like to see the sky and the stars. I climb up on a ladder, with ropes and things. The birds are right there in the morning. Sometimes they're flying so close to my head I can feel the wind. Those things are heaven to me."
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