Diamonds & Rust

Artist: Joan Baez
Label: Universal/Spectrum
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 082839323321
EAN: 0082839323321
ASIN: B000026GYK

Release Date: 2003-02-20

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Tracks:

Diamonds And 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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Customer Reviews:

An old favorite........2007-01-15

I lost my tape of this music and decided to repurchase it as a CD. It was part of my "formative" years and I'm truly enjoying it in this new part of my life. A true Gold CD of songs!!

Warm fuzzies and cold pricklies............2006-08-12

This disk brough back many long forgotten memories and emotions some were warm fuzzies that ellicited a *SIGH* and other were cold pricklies...

One of the most beautiful, most powerful voices on the planet........2006-01-05

This is the queen of folk music giving us folk/pop/rock music of the highest quality. Her versions of "Fountains of Sorrow" and "Simple Twist of Fate" are better than the originals. She is a leader, musically, spiritually, politically. It is worth the price of admission just to hear the song "Diamonds & Rust". This album is magnificent, don't miss it!

Baez at her best........2005-02-07

Diamonds and Rust (D&R), is perhaps Baez's most reflective work. Rather than rely solely on her soprano power with the obligatory Dylan tune thrown in, reaches deep into her psyche and soul in this collection of "folky" type songs. There is the Dylan tune for sure ("Simple Twist of Fate"), where the songstress mimics Dylan's voice for a verse and hits it pretty close to dead on. The album contains two "finger pointing songs" about Bobby. "Wings of the Old Days" is clearly about Dylan,("I read that the prince had returned to the stage"), however the cover song could be about her ex David Harris although the lyrics seem to suggest a link to Dylan and their love affair. She covers John Prince ("Hello in There") and provides plenty of material for the folk crowd. The strength of D&R does not come from the individual songs but rather from the collection as a whole. Taking us back to the early '60's, through Vietnam, then redemption and finally acceptance of what we went through. Baez released D&R around the same time Dylan released "Blood on the Tracks", and a year or so prior to the Rolling Thunder Tour in which Baez was so prominantely featured. The tradegy perhaps is that she will always be linked to Dylan and is trapped in the folk "protest" era. Dylan escaped due to the force of his talent and with his artistic integrity intact. Baez can't really rock but she can sing with the best of them and D&R proves it.

an old favorite.......2003-03-06

I discovered this album at a country fair 20 years ago, and while the music seemed a little foreign to me back then, in my teens, the more I listened , the better it got. Now I continue to hum these tunes hauntingly like a mind mantra, in my now middle age. It has a magic to it.

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