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Joan Baez honored the victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting and Barack Obama's tearful eulogy at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in the new video for "The President Sang Amazing Grace." The song appears on Baez's new album, Whistle Down the Wind.

Singer-songwriter Zoe Mulford wrote "The President Sang Amazing Grace" not long after the 2015 mass shooting. Baez was compelled to record her own version after hearing Mulford's on the radio. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Baez said, "I heard that song and I just pulled over. It's so expressive of my thoughts and feelings, which are pretty fucking gloomy, but she did it in such a beautiful way that's as dark as it is beautiful."

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