VIDEO: Joan Baez Debuts New Music Video THE PRESIDENT SANG AMAZING GRACE Via The Atlantic

The official music video for Joan Baez's "The President Sang Amazing Grace" is premiering today at The Atlantic. Watch the video.

Created and animated by Jeff Scher (whose work is in the permanent collection at MoMA and who has created work for HBO, PBS and The New York Times) and produced by Rick Litvin (Associate Arts Professor, New York University), the video is the first unveiled as part of a forthcoming "visual album" of distinctive short films. Created in collaboration with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, each film will accompany one of the ten songs from Baez's acclaimed new album, Whistle Down The Wind.

Out now on Bobolink/Razor & Tie Records (purchase here), Whistle Down The Wind is Baez's first album in ten years and debuted at #18 on Billboard's Top Current Albumschart and #4 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart-her strongest chart position since 1975's Diamonds & Rust. The album is also finding success internationally debuting at #47 in the U.K., #36 in France, #6 in Sweden and #8 in Germany. Watch a recent profile on "CBS News Sunday Morning"

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