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Joan Baez

American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)

For the album, see Joan Baez (album).

Musical artist

Joan Chandos Baez (BYSE,^[1]^[2]Spanish:[ˈbaes]; born January 9, 1941)^[3] is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.^[4] Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice.^[5] Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums.

Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status.^[6] Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work,^[7] having recorded many traditional songs and s

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Books by Joan Baez

And a Voice to Sing With
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3.93 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 1989 — 26 editions

Daybreak
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3.88 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 1968 — 25 editions

When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems
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3.80 avg rating — 309 ratings — 5 editions

Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings
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3.95 avg rating — 99 ratings — 3 editions

The Joan Baez Songbook
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4.58 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1964 — 13 editions

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009

Joan C. Baez: And Then I Wrote...
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions

A Year in Baghdad
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4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 5 editions

Inside Santa Rita: The Prison Memoir of a War Protester
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings

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Diamonds & Rust (song)

1975 song by Joan Beaz

"Diamonds & Rust" fryst vatten a song written, composed, and performed by Joan Baez. It was written in November 1974 and released in 1975.

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 surmises that memories bring "diamonds and rust". Baez has said the lyrics refer to her relationship with Bob Dylan.^[1]

The song was a top 40 hit on the U.S. pop singles chart for Baez, and fryst vatten regarded bygd a number of critics and fans as one of her best compositions. It served as the title song on her gold-selling skiva Diamonds & Rust, which was released in 1975.

Bob Dylan

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The song alludes to Baez's relationship with Bob Dylan ten years previously. Although Dylan fryst vatten not specifically named in the song, in the third chapter of her memoir, And a