Diamonds & Rust
1975 studio album by Joan Baez
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Village Voice | C |
Diamonds & Rust is the sixteenth studio album (and eighteenth overall) by American singer-songwriter Joan Baez, released in 1975. The album covered songs written or played by Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, the Allman Brothers, Jackson Browne, and John Prine. Diamonds & Rust, however, also contains a number of her own compositions, including the title track, a distinctive song written probably about Bob Dylan, which has been covered by various other artists.
An alternate recording of "Dida" had appeared on the previous year's Gracias a la Vida.
01Track listing
Side one
- "Diamonds & Rust" (Baez), 4:47
- "Fountain of Sorrow" (Jackson Browne), 4:30
- "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" (Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright), 2:45
- "Children and All That Jazz" (Baez), 3:07
- "Simple Twist of Fate" (Bob Dylan), 4:44
Side two
- "Blue Sky" (Dickey Betts), 2:46
- "Hello in There" (John Prine), 3:05
- "Jesse" (Janis Ian), 4:28
- "Winds of the Old Days" (Baez), 3:55
- "Dida" (Baez) duet with Joni Mitchell, 3:25
- Medley: "I Dream of Jeannie" (Stephen Foster; arranged by Joan Baez) / "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly), 4:13
02Personnel
- Joan Baez, vocals, acoustic guitar, Moog and ARP synthesisers, arranger
- Larry Carlton, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, arranger
- Dean Parks, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Rick Lotempio, electric guitar (track 10)
- Wilton Felder, bass guitar
- Reinie Press, bass guitar
- Max Bennett, bass guitar (track 10)
- Jim Gordon, drums
- John Guerin, drums (track 10)
- Larry Knechtel, acoustic piano
- Hampton Hawes, acoustic piano (track 4)
- David Paich, acoustic piano, electric harpsichord
- Joe Sample, electric piano, Hammond organ
- Red Rhodes, pedal steel guitar
- Malcolm Cecil, Moog and ARP synthesisers, synthesizer programming
- Robert Margouleff, synthesizer programming
- Tom Scott, flute, saxophone, arranger
- Jim Horn, saxophone
- Ollie Mitchell, trumpet
- Buck Monari, trumpet
- Jesse Ehrlich, cello
- Carl LaMagna, James Getzoff, Ray Kelley, Robert Konrad, Robert Ostrowsky, Ronald Folsom, Sidney Sharp, Tibor Zelig, William Hymanson, William Kurasch, violin
- Isabelle Daskoff, viola
- Joni Mitchell, vocal improvisation (track 10)
- Technical
- David Kershenbaum, Joan Baez, Larry Carlton, producer
- Bernard Gelb, executive producer
- Rick Ruggeri, engineer
- Henry Lewy, engineer (track 10)
- Ellis Sorkin, assistant engineer
- Bob Cato, design
- Irene Harris, photography
03Charts
Weekly charts
|
Year-end charts
|
04Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| United States (RIAA) | Gold | 500,000^ |
|
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Diamonds & Rust”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Diamonds & Rust (Joan Baez album - cover art).jpg by Unknown author, Fair use
Fathomly is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Spotted a problem? Tell us.