{"product_id":"joan-baez-diamonds-rust-vinyl-lp-due-out-21-11-25","title":"Joan Baez Diamonds \u0026 Rust Vinyl LP 2025","description":"Tracklist:\u003cp\u003e1. Diamonds \u0026amp; Rust - Joan Baez\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fountain Of Sorrow - Joan Baez\u003cbr\u003e 3. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer - Joan Baez\u003cbr\u003e 4. Children And All That Jazz - Joan Baez\u003cbr\u003e 5. Simple Twist Of Fate - Joan Baez\u003cbr\u003e 6. Blue Sky\u003cbr\u003e 7. Hello In There\u003cbr\u003e 8. Jesse\u003cbr\u003e 9. Winds Of The Old Days\u003cbr\u003e 10. Dida\u003cbr\u003e 11. I Dream Of Jeannie \/ Danny Boy (Medley)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally issued on A\u0026amp;M Records in 1975, Diamonds \u0026amp; Rust is Joan Baez's biggest selling album and marked a change of direction; it gave her songs of the heart and politics an unashamedly commercial veneer, returning her to the US Top 20 for the first time in four years - This re-issue, released to mark the album's 50th anniversary, faithfully replicates the original A\u0026amp;M UK release and is pressed on 180g vinyl.\u003cbr\u003e If people were unaware of the significance of Joan Baez to western culture, her portrayal in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (played by Monica Barbaro) underlines how central she was to the popularization of folk music in the early 1960s. And it is her decade-previous relationship with Dylan that hovers joyously over Diamonds \u0026amp; Rust. The title track is about a thinly disguised ex-lover who calls up out of the blue; it remains one of her most loved songs in a 65-year-career. There's a playful cover of \"Simple Twist Of Fate\" from Dylan's then just released Blood On The Tracks, complete with impersonation in a later verse; and \"Winds Of The Old Days\", written in response to Dylan touring again after a lengthy hiatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiamonds \u0026amp; Rust is a perfect, sunshine-drenched album of west-coast folk-tinged rock, full of star session players. It could almost have been a signal to all the recent comers on her patch – many of them friends and colleagues, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Maria Muldaur – that Baez was here first and was sweetly reasserting her authority. Just listen to her mastery on \"Children \u0026amp; All That Jazz\", her cover of Stevie Wonder's \"Never Thought You'd Leave In Summer\" and the poignant closing medley of \"I Dream Of Jeannie\/Danny Boy\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Assai Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299875860863,"sku":"UMCLP075","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1565\/5653\/files\/6eec4270-93f2-4897-a904-510547aa3b70.jpg?v=1773445479","url":"https:\/\/assai.co.uk\/products\/joan-baez-diamonds-rust-vinyl-lp-due-out-21-11-25","provider":"Assai Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}