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REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY KATIE MOULTON
"You're telling me you're not nostalgic," Joan Baez sings on "Diamonds and Rust," "Then give me another word for it." The 1975 piece is Baez at her most personal, a look back on her relationship with Bob Dylan, and was the appropriate close to her set last night at the Pageant, during which her folk purity, political righteousness and cosmic voice took on subdued tones.
Katie Moulton
During a 90-minute, no opener, no intermission set, Baez employed her famous
Dirty Pond Songs, the debut album from English singer-songwriter Bobby Long, is a quiet album, a collection to put on when you're deep in thought or otherwise thinking about life's weightier matters. It's also an album indebted to many of Long's favorites, which he named in a recent RFT interview. (Read the rest here.)
"The Beatles, they're the best band in the world," he says, calling from Dallas. "Jeff Buckley and Neil Young and the Band. I really love Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly and people l
(Via Aimee, via the NY Times, whose headline, "Sleigh, Lady, Sleigh," wins for the day) Bob Dylan's releasing a Christmas album on October 13 called Christmas in the Heart. According to Bob's website, the tracklisting will include songs such as Here Comes Santa Claus," "Winter Wonderland" and "Little Drummer Boy." The coolest part? It's for charity, the website also says:
All of the artist's U.S. royalties from sales of these recordings will be donated to Feeding America, guaranteeing that mor
