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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. © William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Joan Baez, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Donnie Fritts, ComposerLyricist - Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Dan Penn, ComposerLyricist - Joan Baez, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Joan Baez, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norbert Putnam, Producer - Joan Baez, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Mimi Farina, ComposerLyricist - Joan Baez, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Joan Baez, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Joan Baez, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Joan Baez, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kin Vassy, ComposerLyricist - Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Kenny Rogers, ComposerLyricist - Gene Eichelberger, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joan Baez, Producer, MainArtist - Tro-First Edition Productions Inc, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - Joan Baez, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Douglas Van Arsdale, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norbert Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer - HY ZARET, ComposerLyricist - Joan Baez, Producer, MainArtist - Anna Marly, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
John Lennon, ComposerLyricist - Joan Baez, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Putnam, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album 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. © William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:43:00
- Main artists: Joan Baez
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: A&M
- Genre: Folk
© 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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