Baez returned to U.S. record shops with a vengeance here, delivering her interpretations of songs by
Dire Straits,
Johnny Clegg,
U2, and
Peter Gabriel, performers whose political consciousness had been formed by listening to old
Joan Baez albums. And on the title track, a stunning original, she boldly answered ex-husband
David Harris' downbeat memoir of the '60s, Dreams Die Hard, as well as other '80s revisionists.
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William Ruhlmann, Rovi