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- Artist: Joan Baez
- Rating:
- Release Date: 1975
- Total Time: 41:45
- Type: Live, Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Folk
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, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Diamonds & Rust | Joan Baez | Joan Baez | (4:47) |
| Fountain of Sorrow (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Joan Baez | (4:30) |
| Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer | Stevie Wonder, |
Joan Baez | (2:45) |
| Children and All That Jazz | Joan Baez | Joan Baez | (3:07) |
| Simple Twist of Fate (Lyrics) | Bob Dylan | Joan Baez | (4:44) |
| Blue Sky (Lyrics) | Joan Baez | (2:46) | |
| Hello in There (Lyrics) | John Prine | Joan Baez | (3:05) |
| Jesse | Janis Ian | Joan Baez | (4:28) |
| Winds of the Old Days | Joan Baez | Joan Baez | (3:55) |
| Dida | Joan Baez | Joan Baez | (3:25) |
| I Dream of Jeannie/Danny Boy [Medley] | Joan Baez | Joan Baez | (4:13) |
