Diamonds & Rust

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 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
All songs composed by Joan Baez; except where noted.
 * Side one
 * 1) "Diamonds & Rust" - 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" - 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" - 3:55
 * 5) "Dida" (Joan Baez) – duet with Joni Mitchell - 3:25
 * 6) Medley: "I Dream of Jeannie" (Stephen Foster; arranged by Joan Baez) / "Danny Boy" (Frederick 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
 * Wilton Felder – bass
 * Reinie Press – bass
 * Max Bennett – bass (10)
 * Jim Gordon – drums
 * John Guerin – drums (10)
 * Larry Knechtel – acoustic piano
 * Joe Sample – electric piano, Hammond organ
 * Hampton Hawes – acoustic piano (4)
 * David Paich – acoustic piano, electric harpsichord
 * 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
 * Joni Mitchell – vocal improvisation (10)
 * Rick Lotempio – electric guitar (10)
 * 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
 * Technical
 * David Kershenbaum, Joan Baez, Larry Carlton – producer
 * Bernard Gelb - executive producer
 * Rick Ruggeri – engineer
 * Henry Lewy – engineer (10)
 * Ellis Sorkin – assistant engineer
 * Bob Cato – design
 * Irene Harris - photography