Sometimes it’s best to give thanks. And sometimes it helps to have Thanksgiving songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and others to remind us.

Few seem to know that Joan Baez is a gifted songwriter in her own right, composing many powerful and poetic tracks over the course of the decades.

In September 1973, Chilean folk singer Victor Jara was brutally murdered, moving Joan Baez to produce a final homage and farewell.