Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust
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Artist: Joan BaezEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- Diamonds & Rust
- Fountain of Sorrow
- Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
- Children and All That Jazz
- Simple Twist of Fate
- Blue Sky
- Hello in There
- Jesse
- Winds of the Old Days
- Dida
- I Dream of Jeannie/Danny Boy [Medley]
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Music Review: Chasing down a John Prine tune
Rating: 5 Stars
First, let me say that I have been a huge fan of Joan Baez since I was 12 years old, and I'm now 58. Driving home, listening to our local NPR radio station, I heard a song that I knew was familiar, but all I got from the announcer was that it was written by John Prine. The song got stuck in my head and, after checking every CD that I thought might contain the song, I finally went online to track it down. Well, thankfully, the lyrics lodged in my brain turned out to be the title of the song, "Hello in There". And, when it popped up on this album, I was shocked to learned that, while I have the LP, I never got the CD. So, now I do, and what a joy it was to hear these songs again, delivered in that crystal clear voice. I can only say "Thank you, Joan" for all the wonderful years!
Description of Diamonds & Rust
Ms. Baez's most successful album, artistically and commercially...and she recorded it on her own terms and direction. The material she chose to cover includes songs originally by Jackson Browne, Stevie Wonder, her forever love Bob Dylan and The Allman Brothers. But it was the title track that must have brought her the most satisfaction, as it was self-penned. An ode to her fabled affair with Dylan, it speaks from the heart frankly, affectionately and unapologetically. She was rewarded with it becoming a Top 40 hit (something that had eluded her since the 1960's), one of the biggest in her career. Musicians include Crusaders Wilton Felder and Joe Sample along with Larry Carlton, as well as Joni Mitchell (with Tom Scott & The L.A. Express) who duets on "Di Da". Produced by David Kershenbaum and Baez, it's simply one of her best albums ever.Perhaps the most outstanding folk album of the 1970s, this collection represents Baez's blossoming from a girlish folk icon into a mature interpreter of folk music. The title track (and, to a much lesser degree, "Dida" and "Children and All That Jazz") showcases her songwriting, but the intimate spin she puts on the music of others is what makes this the remarkable work it is. On Jackson Browne's "Fountain of Sorrow," Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate" and John Prine's "Hello in There," the purity of Baez's clear soprano (deeper and mellower than on her early albums) expresses the gentle pains of nostalgia and what-might-have-been. The medley of "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair/Danny Boy" reminds us that no matter what other directions she moves in, Baez will always be a masterful singer of traditional folk music. --Barrie Trinkle --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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