Outdoing the current crop of confessional singer/songwriters at soul baring, Baez sang to Dylan, reminiscing about her '60s love affair with him intensely, affectionately, and unsentimentally.
But the real hit was the title track, a self-penned masterpiece on the singer's favorite subject, her relationship with Bob Dylan. A&M, no doubt recalling the success of her cover of the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," released her version of the Allmans' "Blue Sky" as a single, and it got halfway up the charts. 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.
"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. It served as the title song on Baez's gold-selling album Diamonds & Rust, which was released in 1975. pop singles chart, is regarded by a number of critics, as well as by Baez fans, as one of her best compositions. The song, which was a top-40 hit for Baez on the U.S.
Baez has stated that the lyrics refer to her relationship with Bob Dylan. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a "crummy" hotel in Greenwich Village in about 1964 or 1965 she recalls giving him a pair of cufflinks, and summarizes that memories bring "diamonds and rust". It was written in November 1974 and released in 1975. The remainder uses the same style picking out the base runs (which you can get from the using the chords shown."Diamonds & Rust" is a song written, composed, and performed by Joan Baez.
#DIAMONDS AND RUST FOR FREE#
Chords are as played I cannot remember what fret the capo should go on (I play it open in C tuning) Em Em Well I'll be damned C Here comes your ghost again G But that's not unusual D Its just that the moon is full Em And you happened to call Em And here I sit C Hand on the telephone G I'm hearing a voice I'd known D A couple of light years ago Em Heading straight for a fall As I remember, Your eyes were bluer than robins' eggs My poetry was lousy you said Where are you calling from? A booth in mid-west Ten years ago I bought you some cuff-links You bought me something We both know what memories can bring They bring diamonds and rust You burst on the scene Already a legend The unwashed phenomenon The original vagabond You strayed into my arms And there you stayed Temporarily lost at sea The madonna was yours for free The girl on the half-shell Could keep you unharmed Bm Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling all around Am And snow in your hair Bm Now you're smiling out of the window of that crummy hotel Am Over Washington square C Our breath comes out of white clouds G Mingles and hangs in the air Fmaj7 Speaking strictly for me G B7 We both could have died then and there Now your telling me Your not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And keeping things vague 'Cos I need some of that vagueness now Its all come back too clearly Yes I loved you dearly And if you're offering diamonds and rust I've already paid -****- The picking sequence for the opening bar is as follows, repeated - slide up 2 frets, D string, to get base sequence.
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