This song (which, believe it or not, was covered by Judas Priest!) She has had several charted hits like The real value in Joan Baez is not hits. is about Joan Baez's strained relationship with her former love, Bob Dylan. An interesting comment.
Perhaps.But Joan Baez was the Queen of folk music and her songs and singing dissected by an adoring audience.She was an activist and worked for civil and human rights and Gandhi inspired non-violent protest.
Pennebaker’s documentary of the 1965 UK tour But in 1975 Dylan called her which is the inspiration for “Diamonds and Rust.” Shortly after that Baez went on the road with him one more time as part of the Rolling Thunder Review.The song is a look back and look forward for Baez and one of her most requested songs.Some of the best imagery are haunting lines, especially about their early romance in the Village in the song’s bridge.Baez represents the quintessential romanticism of the 60’s generation. If the use is possessive then 60’s is more correct. Wearing a black turtleneck in her kitchen, Baez sang the track, which she originally covered on her beloved 1975 album, Diamonds and Rust. diamonds and rust was sang by joan baez, later Judas priest sang it. Three years later she wrote “Diamonds and Rust,” a significantly better song that focused on their personal relationship and her hurt feelings over how it all ended. It's my favorite song by Joan baez and it's certainly was written for Bob Dylan, it speaks of a deep routed pain. The album opens with her folk-rock masterpiece, "Diamonds & Rust", a song that relates a slice of Baez/Dylan history; it never fails to move me. But she found diamonds spring from cold ugly coal and saw shiny glitter deteriorate into rust.
I believe "we both could have died then and there"means they both could have failed as musicians and remained starving in Grenwich .Village Joan Baez introduced She was the star and Dylan was still relatively unknown outside the true fans. Baez has had a lifetime of music and personal devotion to human rights.Here is a 2006 performance that makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.Publisher of NJN Network, Stephen has covered pop, jazz, folk and rock music since 1964, and spent 2 decades as the founder of serial IT startups.
The singer is wary but she cannot refuse the lure of love lost. Was Judy Collins more earthy than Baez? But she found diamonds spring from cold ugly coal and saw shiny glitter deteriorate into rust. I believe the line We both could have died then and there refers to a particularly romantic night they shared in that "crummy hotel over Washington Square." There are two very quirky songs that she wrote. Was Carolyn Hester warmer than Joan Baez? Apparently ’60s or 60s or 60’s are correct in American use. When Baez put Dylan on her stage, it gave him a legitimacy he lacked at the time.Their love affair bloomed but by 1965 it was ending. Acording to Wikipedia, "Coal turns to Diamond, Iron turns to rust", which I think, given the context of the song, means that over time, painfull incidents become cherished memories, and great 'chemistry' becomes dull and forgotten. … We believed in love and humanity. All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. Diamonds & Rust, the song and album from 1975, captures perfectly that moment when her old lover comes back into her life one more time. Diamonds are those wonderful moments shared when we had a million tomorrows and the passage of time has turn those memories to rust. After 10 years of silence Dylan calls Baez to read her the lyrics to Lily, Rosemary... She had been his port in a storm years ago but he treated her badly and she is unnerved by the call, understanding he never loved her the way she loved him.
"Children And All That Jazz" is a pop song that defies classification, and "Dida" is a scat duet with another folk-rock goddess, Joni Mitchell. Joan Baez was a star with her first album Joan Baez in 1960. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only.