Reprinted by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Inc. (ASCAP)ī5: no publishing information or lyrics includedī6: This Arrangement Copyright © 1975 Chandos Music (ASCAP) / Copyright © 1913 Boosey & Co. and Sour Grapes Music (BMI)ī3: Copyright © 1972, 1973 Frank Music Corp. (BMI)ī2: Copyright © 1971 Cotillion Music Inc. Remixed February 11-15 at Sound Labs and February 19-22 at Producers Workshop.Ī1, A5, B4: Copyright © 1975 Chandos Music (ASCAP)Ī3: Copyright © 1970 Jobete Music Company, Inc.Ī5: Copyright © 1975 Ram's Horn Music (ASCAP)ī1: Copyright © 1972 No Exit Music Co., Inc. String & Pedal Steel overdubs recorded January 29 at Wally Heider Studio #4. Synthesizers recorded January 28 at Cecil & Margouleff. Recorded January 21-24, 1975 - A&M Studios A, B & D. Includes colored cardstock inner sleeve with lyrics. This is the Monarch Pressing of Diamonds & Rust, denoted by the triangle in the runouts. Violin – Carl La Magna* (tracks: A3 to A5), James Getzoff (tracks: A3 to A5), Raymond Kelly* (tracks: A3 to A5), Robert Konrad (tracks: A3 to A5), Robert Ostrowsky (tracks: A3 to A5), Ronald Folsom (tracks: A3 to A5), Sidney Sharp (tracks: A3 to A5), Tibor Zelig (tracks: A3 to A5), William Hymanson (tracks: A3 to A5), William Kurasch (tracks: A3 to A5).Viola – Isabelle Daskoff (tracks: A3 to A5).Producer – David Kershenbaum, Joan Baez.Piano – Larry Knechtel (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B4, B6).Pedal Steel Guitar – Red Rhodes (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B4).Leader – Sid Sharp* (tracks: A3 to A5).Engineer – Rick Ruggieri (tracks: A1 to B4, B6).Electric Piano – Joe Sample (tracks: A1 to A5, B4, B5).Electric Guitar – Dean Parks (tracks: A1, A4 to B1, B4), Larry Carlton (tracks: A1 to B1, B3, B4).Cello – Jesse Ehrlich (tracks: A3 to A5).Bass – Reinie Press (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2, B4), Wilton Felder (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B3).Arranged By, Conductor – Larry Carlton (tracks: A3 to A5).Acoustic Guitar – Dean Parks (tracks: A2, A3, B2), Joan Baez (tracks: A1, A5, B2 to B5).The cover songs were typically accomplished, making this the strongest album of Baez's post-folk career. 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. 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.

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. But the real hit was the title track, a self-penned masterpiece on the singer's favorite subject, her relationship with Bob Dylan. 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 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. 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.

Diamonds and rust