JOAN BAEZ: DIAMONDS & RUST
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. Joan Baez's landmark Diamonds & Rust found her at the peak of her singer/songwriter skills, seemingly capable of transitioning out of '60s protest mode into a more contemporary and commercially viable position.
Tracklist:
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 12.Forever Young
Lineup:
Joan Baez - vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesisers, arranger, producer, Joni Mitchell - vocals, Larry Carlton - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, arranger, producer, 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, arranger, Jim Horn - saxophone, Joni Mitchell - vocal improvisation (10), Rick Lo Tempio - electric guitar (10), Ollie Mitchell - trumpet, Buck Monari – trumpet