Diamonds & Rust

Diamonds & Rust
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released	April 1975
Recorded	January 1975
Studio	A&M (Hollywood) Wally Heider's Studio 3 (Hollywood) Cecil and Margouleff
Genre	Folk rock, folk jazz
Length	39:45
Label	A&M
Producer	David Kershenbaum, Joan Baez, Larry Carlton
Joan Baez chronology
Gracias A la Vida (1974) Diamonds & Rust (1975) From Every Stage (1976)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Village Voice	C[2]

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 about Bob Dylan, which has been covered by various other artists.^[3]

An alternate recording of "Dida" had appeared on the previous year's Gracias a la Vida.

Track listing

All songs composed by Joan Baez; except where noted.

Side one

1. "Diamonds & Rust" - 4:47
2. "Fountain of Sorrow" (Jackson Browne) - 4:30
3. "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" (Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright) - 2:45
4. "Children and All That Jazz" - 3:07
5. "Simple Twist of Fate" (Bob Dylan) - 4:44

Side two

1. "Blue Sky" (Dickey Betts) - 2:46
2. "Hello In There" (John Prine) - 3:05
3. "Jesse" (Janis Ian) - 4:28
4. "Winds of the Old Days" - 3:55
5. "Dida" (Joan Baez) – duet with Joni Mitchell - 3:25
6. Medley: "I Dream of Jeannie" (Stephen Foster; arranged by Joan Baez) / "Danny Boy"^[4] (Frederick Weatherly) - 4:13

Personnel

• Joan Baez – vocals, acoustic guitar, Moog and ARP synthesisers, arranger
• Larry Carlton – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, arranger
• Dean Parks – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Wilton Felder – bass
• Reinie Press – bass
• Max Bennett – bass (10)
• Jim Gordon – drums
• John Guerin – drums (10)
• Larry Knechtel – acoustic piano
• Joe Sample – electric piano, Hammond organ
• Hampton Hawes – acoustic piano (4)
• David Paich – acoustic piano, electric harpsichord
• 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
• Joni Mitchell – vocal improvisation (10)
• Rick Lotempio – electric guitar (10)
• 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

Technical

• David Kershenbaum, Joan Baez, Larry Carlton – producer
• Bernard Gelb - executive producer
• Rick Ruggeri – engineer
• Henry Lewy – engineer (10)
• Ellis Sorkin – assistant engineer
• Bob Cato – design
• Irene Harris - photography

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This page was last edited on 27 March 2024, at 11:43