Joan Baez began her career as an interpreter of traditional song. Her first albums are a treasure trove of obscure, ancient balladry. Slowly, Bob Dylan songs started to creep on, and by the fifth album the majority of her albums were made up of covers of Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, etc. They were important songs for the time, but Baez didn't really come into her own as a singer of popular songwriting until Diamonds and Rust, an album which she wrote much of herself. The title track chronicles her relationship with Bob Dylan and how it has evolved over time, taking him to task for psuedo-deep vagueness and crescendos to its peak with a moving description of the lovers in Washington Square.
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