Joan Baez hospitalized after falling out of her treehouse, Republicans not surprised

Singer Joan Baez took a plunge while descending from her Woodside, California treehouse Wednesday, setting the “Folk Singers Are Normal People Too” movement back about 40 years and possibly inspiring a Tea Party musical on Broadway titled The Night They Drove Ol’ Baez Down.

I wouldn’t be poking fun if Joan wasn’t OK, which she is. Nancy Lutzow, who runs Baez’s Menlo Park production company, tells Mercury News that the singer is “resting comfortably” after being released from a Stanford hospital.

Baez talked about the treehouse in an interview with London Kills Me in 2008:

L: Is it important for you to be near nature?

JB: Yes it is. In fact, I sleep in a tree all summer long. I have a little tree house – actually it’s just a platform, because I like to see the sky and the stars. Yeah, it’s about 20 feet in the air. 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.

Here’s Joan performing “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down” from The Midnight Special: