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Whistle Stopper - Diamonds & Rust
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List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $4.66
Your Save: $ 7.32 ( 61% )
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Manufacturer: A&M
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075021323322
Label: A&M
Manufacturer: A&M
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: A&M
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: A&M
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Summary: The best!
Comment: I have the Diamonds & Rust record album I purchased when it was first released. Not being able to play the record in my car it was worth it to buy the CD as well. My favorite album...some really moving songs.
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Summary: l'll be damned!
Comment: As a lifelong Judas Priest fan, l borrowed this album from someone who owned it to hear the original version of the title track. Judas Priest did a memorable version of this on their ''Unleashed ln The East (Live ln Japan)'', as well as an unplugged version on their reunion tour a couple of years ago. WH0A!!! This low key, folksy version kicks Judas Priest's hard and heavy, full octane version's butt. You can picture the gray overcast afternoon in Washington Square in Joan's version.
The rest of the album needs some getting used to, but l can listen to ''Diamonds And Rust'' over and over again on repeat for hours.
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Summary: Shining Star of an Era
Comment: Last night I was listening to this wonderful album for the first time in a while and I was swept back to my high school days, this was my mellow down album in my senior year when it came out.
MS. Baez had kind of gotten out of my play list over the years; my politics have grown so polar opposite from hers over the years it had taken some of the glow off for me. The other day, a friend was asking about 70's vocals that I would recommend, and I pulled out this CD and remembered how clear and piercing Ms Baez's voice can be, and how moving that voice can make some of the wonderful song selections on this CD including her own haunting title cut which chronicles the pain of her relationship with Dylan, Steve Wonder's mournful "I never Dreamed you'd leave in Summer", and a biting rendition of Dylan's "A simple Twist of Fate".
So among my best recommendations for 70's Vocals, has to be Diamonds and Rust.
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Summary: Love songs in the most beautiful of voices
Comment: This is an old friend. The songs are classics, sung in the most beautiful voice of my generation. It is lovely!
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Summary: One Must Really Like Joan Baez
Comment: I bought this albumn before I learned how to burn CDs ... Because really the only song I desired was/is "Diamonds & Rust". It is a beautiful ode to her ex.
I haven't been inclined to listen to the remainder of the albumn, mostly because I can only take so much of Ms. Baez's voice ... Especially her renditions of Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate", and John Prine's "Hello in There".
One shall be much more rewarded to obtain these two songs in particular by the original artists.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Ms. Baez's most successful album, artistically and commercially...and she recorded it on her own terms and direction. The material she chose to cover includes songs originally by Jackson Browne, Stevie Wonder, her forever love Bob Dylan and The Allman Brothers. But it was the title track that must have brought her the most satisfaction, as it was self-penned. An ode to her fabled affair with Dylan, it speaks from the heart frankly, affectionately and unapologetically. She was rewarded with it becoming a Top 40 hit (something that had eluded her since the 1960's), one of the biggest in her career. Musicians include Crusaders Wilton Felder and Joe Sample along with Larry Carlton, as well as Joni Mitchell (with Tom Scott & The L.A. Express) who duets on "Di Da". Produced by David Kershenbaum and Baez, it's simply one of her best albums ever.
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