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"Diamonds & Rust" is a song written, composed, and performed by Joan Baez. It was written in November 1974 and released in 1975. It was written in November 1974 and released in 1975. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a "crummy" hotel in Greenwich Village in ...
Diamonds & Rust (1975) Gulf Winds (1976) Blowin' Away (1977) Honest Lullaby (1979) Recently (1987) Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (1988) Speaking of Dreams (1989) Play Me Backwards (1992) Gone from Danger (1997) Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (2003) Day After Tomorrow (2008) Whistle Down the Wind (2018)
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 .
Indeed, "Diamonds & Rust" was the first song by Judas Priest to receive radio play, and Baez herself reportedly enjoyed the cover. This was the band's second attempt to cover the track, and the earlier version from the Gull Records era was only released in 1978 on the compilation album The Best of Judas Priest [ 11 ] and as a bonus track on the ...
Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring is a Joan Baez album, recorded live in the bullring of Bilbao, Spain. It featured twelve songs, six of which were performed in English, five in Spanish and one - "Txoria Txori" - in Basque .
"Simple Twist of Fate" has been covered and reinterpreted by several artists: first covered by Joan Baez on Diamonds & Rust (1975); by the Jerry Garcia Band on their 2-disc live album Jerry Garcia Band (1991) and on Run for the Roses (1982) (bonus track on 2004 rerelease); by Concrete Blonde on their Still in Hollywood (1994) collection; by ...
The Boston Globe called Play Me Backwards "mostly an album of mature, surprisingly percussive folk-pop love songs that marks her finest work since her Diamonds and Rust album of 1975." [18] The Sun-Sentinel wrote that "Baez's erstwhile hyper-quivering soprano thankfully does not flutter so much, and has deepened marvelously with age." [7]
Diamonds and Rust includes this verse: Well you burst on the scene Already a legend The unwashed phenomenon The original vagabond You strayed into my arms. At the time it came out, everyone knew that was about Bob Dylan, and I don't recall Joan Baez ever being reported as saying it wasn't.