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July 6, 2015
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 6, 2015 3:49 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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She still alive? We owe it to her and Peter, Paul, and Mary for all the rallying songs of the Flower Power People.
She is (was?) a flaming commie so perhaps we don't owe her anything. She owes us for letting her live here.
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at July 7, 2015 1:06 AM
Lovely song by a gifted artist. Truly. Without regard to politics. I cannot believe how we deprive ourselves of beauty when we see the world through the narrow prism of politics. She has a God-given gift. Thank you for posting this beautiful song.
Posted by: Nancy Moss at July 7, 2015 3:59 AM
It'd be a great question to ask Bob Dylan what his opinion is about Joans' song "Diamonds and Rust" - being that he seems to be its focal point.
Btw... Bob Dylan still owes rent to a nearby Landlord after he "took off east one morning, in the rising sun's red glow ..." ;)
Posted by: John Condon at July 7, 2015 7:05 AM
Ah, but Nancy, politics was/is Joanies prism. She used her God-given gift to try to sing America in to Communism. She's no better than Hanoi Jane Fonda (ugh!). A pox on both their houses.
Posted by: D S Craft at July 7, 2015 9:55 AM
What makes the song good is that it is personal, not political. Too bad she didn't make a note of that.
Posted by: james wilson at July 7, 2015 10:06 AM
Commies in this country bite the hand that feeds them.
I don't think Baez or any other lefty musicians share their rice bowl with anyone else.
Posted by: chasmatic at July 8, 2015 7:27 PM