Joan was Queen of the Folk Scene, an international celebrity when Bob was the unknown new boy in town. She helped his career enormously by inviting him on stage with her, introducing him to her fans as a great new talent. Hand-in-hand with the folk music at the time was a growing political protest movement, mainly for civil rights/ ending racially-based segregation, and against the Vietnam War. Joan was at the centre of it all, closely involved and marching with MLK and others, always lending her beautiful, haunting voice to the cause. Bob tried his hand at a few protest songs and inadvertently became the new mouthpiece for the protest movement. When he moved on, into other topics and electrically amplified rather than acoustic music, many in the folk scene felt betrayed. Eventually the roles reversed and while Joan's star faded, somewhat, along with the fading of the late 50s/early 60s folk revival, Bob's star continued to rise as he explored and mastered other musical genres and subject matter.
There had always been a protest element to folk music -- Pete Seeger and "The Weavers" during the 1950s, before them Woody Guthrie. When Pete Seeger/"The Weavers" were blacklisted by McCarthyism, folk music was kept in public consciousness by the unfairly-maligned "Kingston Trio" followed by next-generation Joan Baez. Those who felt "betrayed" when Dylan moved on -- primarily Pete Seeger -- felt so because they thought they OWNED Dylan. But how does that work: the folk Left was empowered by his protest songs, yet HE "owed" THEM!?
You just don't hear such poinent lyrics like this today, such beautiful musicality or purity of voice. Im now 71 and heard this song for the very first time only 2-3 weeks ago. How did i miss this first time around!!🙄🙄🇬🇧
It got a lot better with practice, until she wrote some stunning stuff in the 1970's and after that. She'd actually been asked by Bob Dylan one day in the mid-60's, "Why don't you write any songs of your own?" "Bob...because I can't write songs!" replied Joan. "That's just silly," says Bob. "Anyone can write songs if they just try it. Just write down some words, like in your poems, then add some music. It won't necessarily be the greatest song ever written, but you just gotta start." He was right, and she took his advice, and in a few years she was writing some brilliant material. The thing that will often hold people back is just their own negative thinking that they "can't do it" for some reason. If they change that thinking, then surprising things can happen. There can't be a better written song than "Diamonds and Rust".
@@georgecoventry8441 Joan got her start by singing old immmigrant folk songs of Appalachia, Ireland, Wales, and other folk singers. Her singing was perfect for those storytelling tales of love, tragedy, and loss. She was not a natural songwriter, but an interpreter of others’ songs. She sang entire albums full of only Bob Dylan songs, and she did justice by them.
Diamonds and Rust is one of the most moving songs I ever heard. It was riveting in 1975, and it still is. She laid a lot on the line, and we mourned her loss with her. Thank you for choosing this song.
The lyrics are so powerful, with Baez being more of an interpreter of other's songs rather than a songwriter, one wonders if perhaps Dylan was a contributor. But, that is pure speculation.
The verse "Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling all around with snow in your hair..." those images are so detailed and quick. It is exactly how memory works. I see them so clearly it makes me feel they are my memories
For those of us that experienced these two in real time it broke our hearts these two didn't remain together...And leave it up to Joan who is not a "song writer" to write the greatest "love song" ever of the era. Goose bumps every time I hear it to this day...We all were in love with Joan...PLH-ELB
Dylan had to break away from Joan in order to grow and mature out of the pigeon hole the folk and protest singers were trying to force him in to. She was constantly haranguing him to join her in protest marches and protest songs, and Dylan had to grow in other directions. He wanted to embrace the electric guitar and discover other areas of his growing talents, and Joan couldn’t/wouldn’t understand that. I don’t think she ever got over the breakup, as she would continue to mimic him, sing his songs, criticize him, and then she wrote this song. She obviously was stung very hard by his leaving her.
@@elstongunn4277 - Yes, of course she was. Nothing surprising about that. She was in love with him. It was inevitable that Bob was going to move in new directions...away from the acoustic folk/protest songs, and their breakup was also inevitable, but they both gained a lot from knowing each other when the time was right, and they reconnected about 10 years later in both music and friendship.
Love, love, love this song. I’ve always been enamored with Joan’s beautiful voice. She’s been a powerful voice for people who are under-represented in our society. Her politics are the polar opposite of my own, but I still have great respect for her. Fortunately, I’ve been able to set the politics aside and enjoy her lovely voice for over fifty years. Her cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)” is an absolute must.
The odd thing is that I woke up this morning with this song running endlessly through mind. This is one of those pieces that not only pulls us in but pushes us into our own state of reminiscence. The good & bad, love or lust, hope & despair, diamonds or rust. With the certainty that all that blooms changes or fades over time. I have a golden rose in my garden That blooms for me each morning I don't understand it's structure Or the language it may speak I only know how it makes me feel And that's enough... Thank you for playing this... 🙏🎶❤️
So the story of this song is basically in the early 60s she helped Dylan get his leg up in the folk scene and obviously his talent flowed like a well and he quickly started becoming more than just the guy singing with Joan Baez she was a big name in the scene. And Dylan became very well known for his songs and lyrics they got covered by so many popular artists at the time. And in the spring of 1965 while on tour in the UK Joan accompanied Dylan and usually the two would sing some of the songs together in concert but on this tour he never invited her on stage he was moving in a different direction although he was still at this time doing all acoustic folk sets of his own written music he just recorded and released the first of his albums to have electric guitars on it “Bringing it all back home” this was the direction he was going combining his folk lyrics with electric rock and blues guitars to create a new genre folk-rock and this is where their relationship fell apart or fizzled our on this tour Dylan moved on pretty quick because by November 1965 he married a woman called Sara lownds. And so this song is written in 1975 about a phone call she had received from Dylan in the Midwest he’s reading the lyrics to a new song he’s written called “lily rosemary and the jack of hearts” a fantastically written song and while he’s doing that all those memories they shared 10 or so years ago flood through her and she later writes this song about it all. Bob Dylan actually wrote a rebuttal to this song called “oh sister” in 1975 - link - th-cam.com/video/smb86Il2sgA/w-d-xo.html an interesting song I hope you listen to it.
Yes! And Joan then wrote a rebuttal to that, called "Oh, Brother!" Both excellent songs, by the way. Some very deeply felt connections there, for sure, and they had the great good fortune to cross paths at exactly the right time.
I was just about 20 when this came out. I always put her in the same category as Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Laura Nyro. Great singer/songwriters that could swing between both worlds of folk and pop. Great song.
I will never forget the first time I heard this song. It was the mid-70’s, I was 14 years old, listening to the radio on a summer night by myself in my bedroom. This song came on and I was awestruck by her beautiful voice, the gorgeous lyrics and the underlying melancholy. I didn’t know either Joan or Bob’s music at the moment. But I was introduced to some of their best songs shortly after that, and Dylan has gone on to become my favorite artist hands-down. This song will always be special to me. And it was a joy to see how much you enjoyed it!
I was 20 when i fall in love with voice of joan...manage to see her last c I ncert luve...still no artist touch me more...hiw coud bob say her poetry is lousy..every time i hear this song make me cry....thsnks djboy fir this..bless
Today, at age 82, Joen says Bob Dylan broke her heart and that she stayed hurt and angry about his leaving her for years, until she painted a portrait of him as he was when he was young and they were together, and the anger just left,
To me, one if the greatest technological innovations ever was the ability to record and preserve music. Imagine life without being able to listen to great music like this, music from decades past.
Love your reaction! Her voice was from heaven. Those of us who grew up on Dylan albums, knew very well of their relationship, and it was exciting...we were all young..and Joan was a Queen in the folk world. .This song tells all we need to know about what REALLY went down. Fast forward, Bob was married for several years, had I think 4 children, one of them had a band (The Wall Flowers) for awhile...Bob is now married to a lovely black woman, who was one of his back up singers (Carolyn Dennis if I remember correctly) , and they have a daughter together.
Born in 1951 I came of age during the golden age of Folk music, Joan, Bob, Judy, Pete, Tom, Joni, and so many others. They reflect a time when we sought the simpler things, a gentler kinder time ( well we thought it was ) a time when we believed a better world was possible!!
Saw JB outside at 1974 Cleveland Edgewater Park perform Dixie along with Country Joe & the Fish "1, 2, 3, 4, What are were fighting fore?" Was to young to appreciate JB😘 Folk🎶 I like the way Blackmoor Night wraps end song "I've already💰 PAID"🔼🎶⏫
She is beautiful. Her voice is beautiful. Her poetry is beautiful. Her song is beautiful, full of deep love, and pain. She is 81 yrs old and still beautiful.
you have the same feelings that I had as a young (14) girl upon first hearing Joan sing. Back then it was Fennario and Lily of The West. I hope you try to complete her catalogue for your personal pleasure. Joan taught me a lot, Gulf Winds, Restless Farewell, Love Is Just A Four Letter Word, and many, many more.
Get yourself a copy pf "Festival!" It's a film that's just interviews and concert footage from 1963 - 1965 Newport Folk festival. Lots of Joan, Lots of Bob, lots of both together even.
One of the defining ALBUMS of my youth. It is as stunning and REVELATORY today as it was then. And what she did for HUMAN RIGHTS from the beginning. She never truly got her due as a vocalist.
Love your very cool & so insightful comments noirspective! michael, 72 now..loved the renaissance of music & poetry that burst forward from those beautiful days back then, so long ago, but now seems just like yesterday. Thanks so much!
Both Dylan and Baez were major figures in the 60s civil rights movement. Arlo Gutherie says Dylan wrote and recorded the first Top40 Rap song in the 60s: Subterranean Homesick Blues.
SIR: I too love Joan Baez. Her music is incredible, which brings me to a request. She has a poetic look at life for the most unfortunate; a song called "Hand to Mouth". Enjoy your reactions, and THANK YOU! 🤗
If you want to see Joan and Bob singing into a single mic bluegrass style and pounding out a guitar riff, Railroad Boy live, 1973. It's a traditional Appalachian suicide ballad they'd both sung on very early albums.
This is one of my 10 fave albums. This came out at such a pivotal moment in my life - and along with JONI MITCHELL'S COURT AND SPARK - and changed the way I saw everything. BRAVO to you and your deep diving!!!!!
I taught myself how to play guitar when I was 10 years old, and this was one of the songs in my repertoire, as was The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
I had all her albums including this one written for Bob Dylan. Bob wrote Farewell Angelina for her to sing. You could tell it was his writing from the crazy good words.
Incredible, beautiful song it is. Thank you for sharing it with us. I always loved her voice. There's something special about the way the melody and her singing interplay with one dropping while the other is rising. It gives the song an otherworldly quality. Please consider a song of hers that isn't so well known called "Blessed Are".
First time seeing this from a year ago but I still wanted to say that the way you edited the outro is fantastic. Very unique and that's an instant sub for me. And the song choice is special, much appreciated!
Diamonds and Rust is an amazing song, and so is the album of the same name. Joan Baez usually sang covers but her album Gulf Winds, another one of my favorites, contains original material by her.
I was lucky enough to see her on her Day After Tomorrow tour, 09 or 10. She played the Layton Commons, tickets were cheap and I had a friend who lived in Layton to help me find the place. I think Utah was just an add on, passing through and had the night free. I am so glad to have seen her live. Her cover of Steve Earle's God Is God, from the Day After Tomorrow album. might be something you would like, as well. Thank you for the reaction. She has been part of the soundtrack of my life.
Thank you for your insight & reaction to this song. I've listened to it many times over the years, and it is a perfect blend of music, voice and lyrics. Lines like "a couple of light years ago", and "I bought you some cufflinks, you brought me something" are so evocative of what was gained, lost, and could have been. It's pure magic to have captured that feeling in just a few lines.
Thank you, she made a great recording. A half year older than Dylan it is a song written about love when both were still in their twenties. Anyone without reflection years further down the line from that time, may not have been paying attention. Would Joan Baez, if playing today in public, still choose to play this again? Like water under the bridge, I think not. Joan Baez moved beyond personal strive and concerned herself with more human strive.
Yes this song is a beautiful song. It is one of her two hits with "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". But as she once said on stage, she wasn't expected to do any hits. There is another song she wrote to Bob Dylan as an answer to the song he wrote to her "Ô Sister". She wrote "Ô Brother", and this song shows the mood she was about their relationship at that time. She isn't that kind or sweet but she "reacts like thunder" as she wrote herself!
I know very little about Joan Baez, the first time I heard her name was when she did the song, the night they drove old Dixie down. I was a fairly young kid and I remember sitting on the floor, staring at the speaker, mesmerized by that song and her voice. It also threw me for a loop that the song was written from the point of view of a male character, yet here what is this gorgeous powerful female voice singing the story. Other than that I know very little of Joan Baez. Saw her on TV in various shows, can’t even remember the context. Oddly enough, I think I know more about her guitar than I do about her because there is a funny story associated with that.
@@noirspective8436 always leave them wanting more LOL😁 I think I will just let this one ferment for a couple of days. Maybe there are some true Joan Baez fans who know the story and can tell it better than I can I’m sure I have many of the details wrong but get the jest of the story and I think it is pretty funny. If no one else tells about it in a couple of days I will come back until what I know🤠
@@noirspective8436 So to start with, I got this information third hand. I know nothing of the timeline in which these events took place. The story goes, Joan Baez needed to have some work done on her guitar. My guess is the work must of been extensive because it sounds like they took the top off to fix bracing‘s and what not. In any case she got her guitar back played it for a number of years, and yet again at some point took her guitar into her shop to have some maintenance done on it. To their surprise, this luthier found written on the underside of the top of her guitar the words “ too bad you’re a communist”. Sometime after that, when they decided to issue a Joan Baez signature guitar, They included that in that model of a guitar with a mirror mounted so that you could see it from the sound Hooke Clearly, the lady does have a sense of humor about herself.
One my my favorite songs of all time, I tear up everytime I hear it, and my relationship to the song has nothing to do with either person, as much as I love the artistry of both. But this song transcends the personalities involved. (Another fave is Dylan's Dirge, a much less sympathetic son about a lover - not Joan I'm fairly sure - from roughly the same period.)
Here's another of Joan's original compositions. It's not as well known as some of the other songs she has recorded. But I really like it. Hope you do as well: th-cam.com/video/AzxjjJYWmrs/w-d-xo.html
Bob Dylan actually wrote a song in reply to this song called “oh sister” 1975 link - th-cam.com/video/smb86Il2sgA/w-d-xo.html would be cool if you could react to this :) Dylan’s marriage at the time was falling apart and he was seeking solace or companionship with a long lost love again in Joan and in the song he accuses her of being cold to him after all they’ve been through in the past obviously the lyrics are coated in metaphors and poetry but the heartfelt sentiment is there just like Joans diamonds and rust.
Heard Joan talk about her voice not long ago, surprised I hadn't heard this before. She talked of her retirement from singing & how she developed her sound. She couldn't sing with vibrato but wanted to dearly. She practiced endlessly touching her throat.,.pressing lightly while singing giving her voice the signature vibrato. She said it didn't really take long to sing that way naturally but then she was unable to sing WITHOUT the vibrato. That's what always turned me off about her voice, there's such a thing as too much vibrato. It's beautiful, don't get me wrong, it's just too much. The old cliche is true, be careful what you wish for, you may get it. Peace & Blessings✨🕯️✨ Ps: Joanie was Steve Job's gf for 4-5 years. 😄 Beautiful, talented, hard- working, charitable, disciplined woman 🌺
Joan was Queen of the Folk Scene, an international celebrity when Bob was the unknown new boy in town. She helped his career enormously by inviting him on stage with her, introducing him to her fans as a great new talent. Hand-in-hand with the folk music at the time was a growing political protest movement, mainly for civil rights/ ending racially-based segregation, and against the Vietnam War. Joan was at the centre of it all, closely involved and marching with MLK and others, always lending her beautiful, haunting voice to the cause. Bob tried his hand at a few protest songs and inadvertently became the new mouthpiece for the protest movement. When he moved on, into other topics and electrically amplified rather than acoustic music, many in the folk scene felt betrayed.
Eventually the roles reversed and while Joan's star faded, somewhat, along with the fading of the late 50s/early 60s folk revival, Bob's star continued to rise as he explored and mastered other musical genres and subject matter.
PaperCup
Great stuff!
There had always been a protest element to folk music -- Pete Seeger and "The Weavers" during the 1950s, before them Woody Guthrie.
When Pete Seeger/"The Weavers" were blacklisted by McCarthyism, folk music was kept in public consciousness by the unfairly-maligned "Kingston Trio" followed by next-generation Joan Baez.
Those who felt "betrayed" when Dylan moved on -- primarily Pete Seeger -- felt so because they thought they OWNED Dylan. But how does that work: the folk Left was empowered by his protest songs, yet HE "owed" THEM!?
One of the most beautiful songs ever written by anyone.
You just don't hear such poinent lyrics like this today, such beautiful musicality or purity of voice. Im now 71 and heard this song for the very first time only 2-3 weeks ago. How did i miss this first time around!!🙄🙄🇬🇧
Loved your comment I'm 74 this made me cry greeting from sunny Essex❤
She proved her poetry wasn't all that bad. Thanks for playing it!
It got a lot better with practice, until she wrote some stunning stuff in the 1970's and after that. She'd actually been asked by Bob Dylan one day in the mid-60's, "Why don't you write any songs of your own?" "Bob...because I can't write songs!" replied Joan. "That's just silly," says Bob. "Anyone can write songs if they just try it. Just write down some words, like in your poems, then add some music. It won't necessarily be the greatest song ever written, but you just gotta start." He was right, and she took his advice, and in a few years she was writing some brilliant material. The thing that will often hold people back is just their own negative thinking that they "can't do it" for some reason. If they change that thinking, then surprising things can happen. There can't be a better written song than "Diamonds and Rust".
@@georgecoventry8441 Joan got her start by singing old immmigrant folk songs of Appalachia, Ireland, Wales, and other folk singers. Her singing was perfect for those storytelling tales of love, tragedy, and loss. She was not a natural songwriter, but an interpreter of others’ songs. She sang entire albums full of only Bob Dylan songs, and she did justice by them.
@@elstongunn4277 - Yes, just so. I bought all that stuff, and she did it wonderfully. I also have bought all of Dylan's material, right to this day.
This is perhaps Joan's signature song and one of her best compositions. A true classic!
The voice is unearthly❤
Joan is also a beast on acoustic guitar.
Diamonds and Rust is one of the most moving songs I ever heard. It was riveting in 1975, and it still is. She laid a lot on the line, and we mourned her loss with her. Thank you for choosing this song.
The lyrics are so powerful, with Baez being more of an interpreter of other's songs rather than a songwriter, one wonders if perhaps Dylan was a contributor. But, that is pure speculation.
By the way, I subscribed to your channel. Thank you for your content.
The verse "Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling all around with snow in your hair..." those images are so detailed and quick. It is exactly how memory works. I see them so clearly it makes me feel they are my memories
My favorite part of this song. Just beautiful.
For those of us that experienced these two in real time it broke our hearts these two didn't remain together...And leave it up to Joan who is not a "song writer" to write the greatest "love song" ever of the era. Goose bumps every time I hear it to this day...We all were in love with Joan...PLH-ELB
Check out her album Gulf WInds for orignal material. :)
@@moonstone1159 -Yes! Wonderful songs on "Gulf Winds"! "Honest Lullaby" is one that really stands out.
@@georgecoventry8441 Love that album!
Dylan had to break away from Joan in order to grow and mature out of the pigeon hole the folk and protest singers were trying to force him in to. She was constantly haranguing him to join her in protest marches and protest songs, and Dylan had to grow in other directions. He wanted to embrace the electric guitar and discover other areas of his growing talents, and Joan couldn’t/wouldn’t understand that. I don’t think she ever got over the breakup, as she would continue to mimic him, sing his songs, criticize him, and then she wrote this song. She obviously was stung very hard by his leaving her.
@@elstongunn4277 - Yes, of course she was. Nothing surprising about that. She was in love with him. It was inevitable that Bob was going to move in new directions...away from the acoustic folk/protest songs, and their breakup was also inevitable, but they both gained a lot from knowing each other when the time was right, and they reconnected about 10 years later in both music and friendship.
Relationships may not last, but the words & music remain, along with the beauty, truth, & pain.
Love, love, love this song. I’ve always been enamored with Joan’s beautiful voice. She’s been a powerful voice for people who are under-represented in our society. Her politics are the polar opposite of my own, but I still have great respect for her. Fortunately, I’ve been able to set the politics aside and enjoy her lovely voice for over fifty years. Her cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)” is an absolute must.
I was lucky to see her at the Hollywood bowl in 68. Bob Dylan showed up and sang with her.
Dylan's "You're a Big Girl Now" (many believe) was written in response, about the same telephone call in question here. Worth a listen.
The odd thing is that I woke up this morning with this song running endlessly through mind. This is one of those pieces that not only pulls us in but pushes us into our own state of reminiscence. The good & bad, love or lust, hope & despair, diamonds or rust.
With the certainty that all that blooms changes or fades over time.
I have a golden rose in my garden
That blooms for me each morning
I don't understand it's structure
Or the language it may speak
I only know how it makes me feel
And that's enough...
Thank you for playing this...
🙏🎶❤️
So the story of this song is basically in the early 60s she helped Dylan get his leg up in the folk scene and obviously his talent flowed like a well and he quickly started becoming more than just the guy singing with Joan Baez she was a big name in the scene. And Dylan became very well known for his songs and lyrics they got covered by so many popular artists at the time.
And in the spring of 1965 while on tour in the UK Joan accompanied Dylan and usually the two would sing some of the songs together in concert but on this tour he never invited her on stage he was moving in a different direction although he was still at this time doing all acoustic folk sets of his own written music he just recorded and released the first of his albums to have electric guitars on it “Bringing it all back home” this was the direction he was going combining his folk lyrics with electric rock and blues guitars to create a new genre folk-rock and this is where their relationship fell apart or fizzled our on this tour Dylan moved on pretty quick because by November 1965 he married a woman called Sara lownds.
And so this song is written in 1975 about a phone call she had received from Dylan in the Midwest he’s reading the lyrics to a new song he’s written called “lily rosemary and the jack of hearts” a fantastically written song and while he’s doing that all those memories they shared 10 or so years ago flood through her and she later writes this song about it all.
Bob Dylan actually wrote a rebuttal to this song called “oh sister” in 1975 - link - th-cam.com/video/smb86Il2sgA/w-d-xo.html an interesting song I hope you listen to it.
@Theimbennn
Thank you for the excellent executive summary, concise. Great stuff
Yes! And Joan then wrote a rebuttal to that, called "Oh, Brother!" Both excellent songs, by the way. Some very deeply felt connections there, for sure, and they had the great good fortune to cross paths at exactly the right time.
Nobody can do a Dylan parody better than Joan. There's a video of her cracking up Earl Scrugg's sons imitating Bob.
@ColonialBuckeye th-cam.com/video/rxzJRZI8100/w-d-xo.html
@ColonialBuckeye th-cam.com/video/rxzJRZI8100/w-d-xo.html
@ColonialBuckeye Earl was there. This is a longer video of this visit to Joan's house. th-cam.com/video/eAsDIwZfNvk/w-d-xo.html
I was just about 20 when this came out. I always put her in the same category as Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Laura Nyro. Great singer/songwriters that could swing between both worlds of folk and pop. Great song.
I will never forget the first time I heard this song. It was the mid-70’s, I was 14 years old, listening to the radio on a summer night by myself in my bedroom. This song came on and I was awestruck by her beautiful voice, the gorgeous lyrics and the underlying melancholy. I didn’t know either Joan or Bob’s music at the moment. But I was introduced to some of their best songs shortly after that, and Dylan has gone on to become my favorite artist hands-down. This song will always be special to me. And it was a joy to see how much you enjoyed it!
I was 20 when i fall in love with voice of joan...manage to see her last c I ncert luve...still no artist touch me more...hiw coud bob say her poetry is lousy..every time i hear this song make me cry....thsnks djboy fir this..bless
Today, at age 82, Joen says Bob Dylan broke her heart and that she stayed hurt and angry about his leaving her for years, until she painted a portrait of him as he was when he was young and they were together, and the anger just left,
I was never a big Joan Baez fan, but this album is brilliant. Great choice!
Excellent video on youtube of Tom Paxton singing his "Central Square". Paxton was in the Village before Dylan arrived. Superior songwriter.
My God she nailed it. If you are old enough we can all identify.
A really great song. Just amazing.
Anyone who has ever been in a narcissist relationship will recognize the indicators in this story.
Check out "Love is Just a Four-Letter Word" -- Bob Dylan wrote it, but no version by him; the closest we have is that by Joan Baez.
Got to see her in the late 70’s in a beautifully acoustic auditorium. She was wonderful.
Thanx for reminding me of this beautiful song. I haven't heard it in decades - just gorgious. Thanx
To me, one if the greatest technological innovations ever was the ability to record and preserve music. Imagine life without being able to listen to great music like this, music from decades past.
@tallestmountain
We would have never met without that ability. Heres to technology?
Love your reaction! Her voice was from heaven. Those of us who grew up on Dylan albums, knew very well of their relationship, and it was exciting...we were all young..and Joan was a Queen in the folk world. .This song tells all we need to know about what REALLY went down. Fast forward, Bob was married for several years, had I think 4 children, one of them had a band (The Wall Flowers) for awhile...Bob is now married to a lovely black woman, who was one of his back up singers (Carolyn Dennis if I remember correctly) , and they have a daughter together.
@ColonialBuckeye
Great stuff!
Jakob Dylan is still recording and released a very good album recently and is in my collection.
Born in 1951 I came of age during the golden age of Folk music, Joan, Bob, Judy, Pete, Tom, Joni, and so many others. They reflect a time when we sought the simpler things, a gentler kinder time ( well we thought it was ) a time when we believed a better world was possible!!
Wow, great selection. So haunting and beautiful. I haven't heard his song in many years. It sure hits me differently at 58 than it did at 15.
Peace 🥳
Love this and her song 'Banks of the Ohio '.
Saw JB outside at 1974 Cleveland Edgewater Park perform Dixie along with Country Joe & the Fish "1, 2, 3, 4, What are were fighting fore?" Was to young to appreciate JB😘 Folk🎶 I like the way Blackmoor Night wraps end song "I've already💰 PAID"🔼🎶⏫
I grew up with this song. It’s so sad…
She is beautiful. Her voice is beautiful. Her poetry is beautiful. Her song is beautiful, full of deep love, and pain. She is 81 yrs old and still beautiful.
@Christine Robinson
I would love to meet her, what fighting spirit.
Her guitar playing is just as beautiful.
And her movie is being released next week
I have loved her since her start.
you have the same feelings that I had as a young (14) girl upon first hearing Joan sing. Back then it was Fennario and Lily of The West. I hope you try to complete her catalogue for your personal pleasure. Joan taught me a lot, Gulf Winds, Restless Farewell, Love Is Just A Four Letter Word, and many, many more.
Excellent Review. What an Excellent review.
Get yourself a copy pf "Festival!" It's a film that's just interviews and concert footage from 1963 - 1965 Newport Folk festival.
Lots of Joan, Lots of Bob, lots of both together even.
What a voice❤
Beautiful song... beautiful voice. There is a youtube of Dylan speaking on Joan's (Joanie's) voice and guitar playing ... he also loved her dearly !!!
One of the defining ALBUMS of my youth. It is as stunning and REVELATORY today as it was then. And what she did for HUMAN RIGHTS from the beginning. She never truly got her due as a vocalist.
Love your very cool & so insightful comments noirspective! michael, 72 now..loved the renaissance of music & poetry that burst forward from those beautiful days back then, so long ago, but now seems just like yesterday. Thanks so much!
Wonderful! I'm so glad you are a part of this community, thank y ou.
Hauntingly beautiful! I get goosebumps every time I hear it. Glad to see you checking it out. Enjoying your journey - I subscribed about 4 tunes ago!
Thanks for the sub!
Both Dylan and Baez were major figures in the 60s civil rights movement. Arlo Gutherie says Dylan wrote and recorded the first Top40 Rap song in the 60s: Subterranean Homesick Blues.
Another great song of hers about Dylan is Winds of the old days.
One of her bests, listen to Forever Young for another beauty.
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SIR: I too love Joan Baez. Her music is incredible, which brings me to a request. She has a poetic look at life for the most unfortunate; a song called "Hand to Mouth". Enjoy your reactions, and THANK YOU! 🤗
An amazing song that lingers on!👍🏻☮️
If you want to see Joan and Bob singing into a single mic bluegrass style and pounding out a guitar riff, Railroad Boy live, 1973. It's a traditional Appalachian suicide ballad they'd both sung on very early albums.
Here's a link, for anyone who wants to check it out:
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Another great selection. Memories!
A truly outstanding piece of music
Her cover of Dylan’s Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall is chilling
With ONE song Joan erased arrogant Dylan. "My poetry was lousy" yeah right Bob, she walks all over you.
The best lime up pf the Fairportss is on Liege Znd Leaf LP.
Richard Thompcog is still performing.
This is one of my 10 fave albums. This came out at such a pivotal moment in my life - and along with JONI MITCHELL'S COURT AND SPARK - and changed the way I saw everything. BRAVO to you and your deep diving!!!!!
I like it, your liking it so much! Joan the phenomenon. Dylan the changeling. Takes all of us, eh? 😁 Thanks for the fantastic channel. Much love.
I taught myself how to play guitar when I was 10 years old, and this was one of the songs in my repertoire, as was The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
Love love love this song… thank-you for letting it play through without comments.
I saw her live early 70s. Stunning voice. Recordings don't do her justice.
Dig.
A beautiful song.
One poet to another.
Peace on earth.
I had all her albums including this one written for Bob Dylan. Bob wrote Farewell Angelina for her to sing. You could tell it was his writing from the crazy good words.
Incredible, beautiful song it is. Thank you for sharing it with us. I always loved her voice. There's something special about the way the melody and her singing interplay with one dropping while the other is rising. It gives the song an otherworldly quality. Please consider a song of hers that isn't so well known called "Blessed Are".
Do some Bob Dylan..
Hollis Brown..
Lily, Rosemary....
Many many more..
First time seeing this from a year ago but I still wanted to say that the way you edited the outro is fantastic. Very unique and that's an instant sub for me. And the song choice is special, much appreciated!
Thanks a ton!
I never want this song to end!
I thank you for presenting this story the way that you did. I was in high school then, in Brooklyn, ten thousand miles from Greenwich Village.
Diamonds and Rust is an amazing song, and so is the album of the same name. Joan Baez usually sang covers but her album Gulf Winds, another one of my favorites, contains original material by her.
I was lucky enough to see her on her Day After Tomorrow tour, 09 or 10. She played the Layton Commons, tickets were cheap and I had a friend who lived in Layton to help me find the place. I think Utah was just an add on, passing through and had the night free. I am so glad to have seen her live.
Her cover of Steve Earle's God Is God, from the Day After Tomorrow album. might be something you would like, as well.
Thank you for the reaction. She has been part of the soundtrack of my life.
Thank you for your insight & reaction to this song. I've listened to it many times over the years, and it is a perfect blend of music, voice and lyrics. Lines like "a couple of light years ago", and "I bought you some cufflinks, you brought me something" are so evocative of what was gained, lost, and could have been. It's pure magic to have captured that feeling in just a few lines.
Thank you, she made a great recording. A half year older than Dylan it is a song written about love when both were still in their twenties.
Anyone without reflection years further down the line from that time, may not have been paying attention.
Would Joan Baez, if playing today in public, still choose to play this again? Like water under the bridge, I think not. Joan Baez moved beyond personal strive and concerned herself with more human strive.
@artemis sidecross
I am certain she is proud of this work. I'm glad I have the oppertunity to explore what I and so many others have missed.
@@noirspective8436 Certainly a great song and a good reason we have recordings and for others to cover it. 👍
So beautiful ... 💙💙
I have always been a fan!
Yes this song is a beautiful song. It is one of her two hits with "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". But as she once said on stage, she wasn't expected to do any hits. There is another song she wrote to Bob Dylan as an answer to the song he wrote to her "Ô Sister". She wrote "Ô Brother", and this song shows the mood she was about their relationship at that time. She isn't that kind or sweet but she "reacts like thunder" as she wrote herself!
They are both alive, he lives in Malibu and she in San Fran. They are good friends and, ironically, he loved this song.
Great song. One of the best i've reacted to. Love the feel, it absolutely resonates .
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This song 💔
Great reaction
@Phil Pinckley
Thank you!
Love your intro to frame the song.
Beautiful reaction, I enjoyed it very much! New subscriber here 😊
I've been patiently waiting for you to get to Joan and to see which song you would choose. Perfect choice! Reaction right on point! Loved it!
So amazing. This song just sucked me right in the first time I heard it. It still does. What a story it tells.
Busdriver sampled this track on the track Happiness
She does great versions of Man of Constant Sorrow and Hush, Little Baby (all my trials, soon be over)
Great
She remains one of the greatest interpreters of Dylan. Her song here is about her relationship with Bob.
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I know very little about Joan Baez, the first time I heard her name was when she did the song, the night they drove old Dixie down. I was a fairly young kid and I remember sitting on the floor, staring at the speaker, mesmerized by that song and her voice. It also threw me for a loop that the song was written from the point of view of a male character, yet here what is this gorgeous powerful female voice singing the story.
Other than that I know very little of Joan Baez. Saw her on TV in various shows, can’t even remember the context.
Oddly enough, I think I know more about her guitar than I do about her because there is a funny story associated with that.
@Minton Miller
Cliff hanger? What's the story M?
@@noirspective8436 always leave them wanting more LOL😁 I think I will just let this one ferment for a couple of days. Maybe there are some true Joan Baez fans who know the story and can tell it better than I can I’m sure I have many of the details wrong but get the jest of the story and I think it is pretty funny. If no one else tells about it in a couple of days I will come back until what I know🤠
@Minton Miller
Roger that.
@@noirspective8436 So to start with, I got this information third hand. I know nothing of the timeline in which these events took place.
The story goes, Joan Baez needed to have some work done on her guitar. My guess is the work must of been extensive because it sounds like they took the top off to fix bracing‘s and what not. In any case she got her guitar back played it for a number of years, and yet again at some point took her guitar into her shop to have some maintenance done on it.
To their surprise, this luthier found written on the underside of the top of her guitar the words “ too bad you’re a communist”.
Sometime after that, when they decided to issue a Joan Baez signature guitar, They included that in that model of a guitar with a mirror mounted so that you could see it from the sound Hooke
Clearly, the lady does have a sense of humor about herself.
One my my favorite songs of all time, I tear up everytime I hear it, and my relationship to the song has nothing to do with either person, as much as I love the artistry of both. But this song transcends the personalities involved. (Another fave is Dylan's Dirge, a much less sympathetic son about a lover - not Joan I'm fairly sure - from roughly the same period.)
It's her So Long Marianne
He broke her heart.
@Pat Schickel
It sure sounds that way. Heart break gives us such wonderful music.
Here's another of Joan's original compositions. It's not as well known as some of the other songs she has recorded. But I really like it. Hope you do as well: th-cam.com/video/AzxjjJYWmrs/w-d-xo.html
@Robert berger
Thank you!
I think you are incredibly moved by this song
I was!
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Bob Dylan actually wrote a song in reply to this song called “oh sister” 1975 link - th-cam.com/video/smb86Il2sgA/w-d-xo.html would be cool if you could react to this :)
Dylan’s marriage at the time was falling apart and he was seeking solace or companionship with a long lost love again in Joan and in the song he accuses her of being cold to him after all they’ve been through in the past obviously the lyrics are coated in metaphors and poetry but the heartfelt sentiment is there just like Joans diamonds and rust.
A perfect representation of the fact that no one can escape being an ordinary human, flaws and all. hehehe
Hi maybe one day you could listen to STEELY DANS song DO IT AGAIN
think you'd dig it
Heard Joan talk about her voice not long ago, surprised I hadn't heard this before. She talked of her retirement from singing & how she developed her sound.
She couldn't sing with vibrato but wanted to dearly.
She practiced endlessly touching her throat.,.pressing lightly while singing giving her voice the signature vibrato.
She said it didn't really take long to sing that way naturally but then she was unable to sing WITHOUT the vibrato.
That's what always turned me off about her voice, there's such a thing as too much vibrato.
It's beautiful, don't get me wrong, it's just too much.
The old cliche is true, be careful what you wish for, you may get it.
Peace & Blessings✨🕯️✨
Ps: Joanie was Steve Job's gf for 4-5 years. 😄
Beautiful, talented, hard- working, charitable, disciplined woman 🌺