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Illustration by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale: She had Mary Seaton, and Mary Beaton, And Mary Carmichael, and me. Most versions of the song are set in Edinburgh (Scotland's traditional capital), but Joan Baez set her version, possibly the best known, in Glasgow, ending with these words: Last night there were four Maries; Tonight there'll be but ...
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.
It featured twelve songs, six of which were performed in English, five in Spanish and one - "Txoria Txori" - in Basque. Most of the songs had been performed and recorded by Baez previously, with the exception of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat", Sting's "Ellas Danzan Solas" and the aforementioned Basque number.
In his AllMusic review, music critic Bruce Eder commented that the purity of the sound was notable at the time. He wrote of the album "Baez gives a fine account of the most reserved and least confrontational aspects of the folk revival, presenting a brace of traditional songs (most notably "East Virginia" and "Mary Hamilton") with an urgency and sincerity that makes the listener feel as though ...
Baez has sung on over 30 albums and scored a Top 5 hit with “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” in 1971. Other iconic songs include the Top 40 "Diamonds & Rust," "Farewell, Angelina," "We ...
Rare, Live & Classic is a 1993 box set compilation by Joan Baez.Released on Vanguard, where Baez had recorded her most influential work during the first twelve years of her career, the set also included material from her subsequent record labels, A&M, Columbia and Gold Castle Records, as well as a number of previously unreleased studio and live recordings.
Live Europe '83 is a 1984 live album by Joan Baez, taken from performances during her previous year's tour.It found Baez beginning to update her image (which she would continue to do on subsequent releases) by including songs like "Children of the Eighties" (her own composition, written for the children born after the 1960s) alongside old fan favorites like "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and ...
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are played by Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro in "A Complete Unknown." The two folk singers met in the early '60s and quickly became close collaborators.