Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust

Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust
Release date:April 1975
Genre: Folk Rock

 

 

Joan Chandos Baez is born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York, the middle daughter of Albert Vinicio and Joan Bridge Baez.In the summer of 1958, Joan Baez, a 17-year old high school graduate (by the skin of her teeth) moved with her family from Palo Alto to Boston.
They drove cross-country with the Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" all over the radio, a guilty pleasure of Joan's. She was an entering freshman at Boston University School Of Drama, where she was surrounded by a musical group of friends who shared a passion for folk music.
In April 1975 Joan Baez released her album "Diamonds & Rust" and later in the year it is certified gold. The album contained songs by Jackson Browne, Janis Ian, John Prine, Stevie Wonder & Syreeta, Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers Band - and Bob Dylan.

 

 

1. Diamonds & Rust
2. Fountain Of Sorrow
3. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
4. Children And All That Jazz
5. Simple Twist Of Fate
6. Blue Sky
7. Hello In There
8. Jesse
9. Winds Of The Old Days
10. Dida
11. I Dream Of Jeannie / Danny Boy (medley)

 

• Joan Baez – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Synthesisers
• Larry Carlton – Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
• 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 – Piano
• Joe Sample – Electric Piano, Hammond Organ
• Hampton Hawes – Piano (#4)
• David Paich – Piano, Electric Harpsichord
• Red Rhodes – Pedal Steel Guitar
• Malcolm Cecil – Synthesisers
• Tom Scott – Flute, Saxophone
• Jim Horn – Saxophone
• Joni Mitchell – Vocal Improvisation (#10)
• Rick Lo Tempio – Electric Guitar (#10)
• Ollie Mitchell – Trumpet
• Buck Monari – Trumpet