Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust [1995 MFSL Ultradisc II)

Album/Artist Review

With the Vietnam War winding down, Joan Baez, who had devoted one side of her last album to her trip to Hanoi, delivered the kind of commercial album A&M Records must have wanted when it signed her three years earlier. But she did it on her own terms, putting together a session band of contemporary jazz veterans like Larry Carlton, Wilton Felder, and Joe Sample, and mixing a wise selection from the work of current singer-songwriters like Jackson Browne and John Prine with pop covers of Stevie Wonder and the Allman Brothers Band, and an unusually high complement of her own writing. A&M, no doubt recalling the success of her cover of the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," released her version of the Allmans' "Blue Sky" as a single, and it got halfway up the charts. But the real hit was the title track, a self-penned masterpiece on the singer's favorite subject, her relationship with Bob Dylan. Outdoing the current crop of confessional singer/songwriters at soul baring, Baez sang to Dylan, reminiscing about her '60s love affair with him intensely, affectionately, and unsentimentally. It was her finest moment as a songwriter and one of her finest performances, period, and when A&M finally released it on 45, it made the Top 40, propelling the album to gold status. But those who bought the disc for "Diamonds & Rust" also got to hear "Winds of the Old Days," in which Baez forgave Dylan for abandoning the protest movement, as well as the jazzy "Children and All That Jazz," a delightful song about motherhood, and the wordless vocals of "Dida," a duet with Joni Mitchell accompanied by Mitchell's backup band, Tom Scott and the L.A. Express. The cover songs were typically accomplished, making this the strongest album of Baez's post-folk career.

 

Album Description	Track Listing
Artist/Album • Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust [1995 MFSL Ultradisc II) (1975 CD Rip) Genre/Style • Folk Year • 1975 Total Tracks • 11 Playtime • 00:41:55 Total Size • 266.52 MB ID3-Tag • vorbis Codec • FLAC/823 kbps Mode/Channels • 2 Posted By • AZOR On 05/18/2021	01. Diamonds & Rust (04:47) 02. Fountain Of Sorrow (04:32) 03. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer (02:44) 04. Children And All That Jazz (03:07) 05. Simple Twist Of Fate (04:45) 06. Blue Sky (02:47) 07. Hello In There (03:05) 08. Jesse (04:29) 09. Winds Of The Old Days (03:56) 10. Dida (03:26) 11. I Dream Of Jeannie - Danny Boy (04:12)

  Diamonds & Rust [1995 MFSL Ultradisc II)