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. Diamonds & Rust, however, also contains a number of her own compositions, including the title track, a distinctive song written probably about Bob Dylan, which has been covered by various other artists.

An alternate recording of "Dida" had appeared on the previous year's Gracias a la Vida.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Diamonds & Rust" (Baez) – 4:47

2. "Fountain of Sorrow" (Jackson Browne) – 4:30

3. "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" (Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright) – 2:45

4. "Children and All That Jazz" (Baez) – 3:07

5. "Simple Twist of Fate" (Bob Dylan) – 4:44

Side two

1. "Blue Sky" (Dickey Betts) – 2:46

2. "Hello in There" (John Prine) – 3:05

3. "Jesse" (Janis Ian) – 4:28

4. "Winds of the Old Days" (Baez) – 3:55

5. "Dida" (Baez) duet with Joni Mitchell – 3:25

6. Medley: "I Dream of Jeannie" (Stephen Foster; arranged by Joan Baez) / "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 4:13

Personnel

• Joan Baez – vocals, acoustic guitar, Moog and ARP synthesisers, arranger

• Larry Carlton – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, arranger

• Dean Parks – electric guitar, acoustic guitar

• Rick Lotempio – electric guitar (track 10)

• Wilton Felder – bass guitar

• Reinie Press – bass guitar

• Max Bennett – bass guitar (track 10)

• Jim Gordon – drums

• John Guerin – drums (track 10)

• Larry Knechtel – acoustic piano

• Hampton Hawes – acoustic piano (track 4)

• David Paich – acoustic piano, electric harpsichord

• Joe Sample – electric piano, Hammond organ

• Red Rhodes – pedal steel guitar

• Malcolm Cecil – Moog and ARP synthesisers, synthesizer programming

• Robert Margouleff – synthesizer programming

• Tom Scott – flute, saxophone, arranger

• Jim Horn – saxophone

• Ollie Mitchell – trumpet

• Buck Monari – trumpet

• Jesse Ehrlich – cello

• Carl LaMagna, James Getzoff, Ray Kelley, Robert Konrad, Robert Ostrowsky, Ronald Folsom, Sidney Sharp, Tibor Zelig, William Hymanson, William Kurasch – violin

• Isabelle Daskoff – viola

• Joni Mitchell – vocal improvisation (track 10)

• Technical

• David Kershenbaum, Joan Baez, Larry Carlton – producer

• Bernard Gelb – executive producer

• Rick Ruggeri – engineer

• Henry Lewy – engineer (track 10)

• Ellis Sorkin – assistant engineer

• Bob Cato – design

• Irene Harris – photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References