(I Live) One Day at a Time

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One Day at a Time
One Day at a Time cover
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released January 1970
Recorded Bradley's Barn, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, October 1969
Genre Folk
Length 39:04
Label Vanguard
Producer(s) Maynard Solomon
Professional reviews
Joan Baez chronology
David's Album
(1969)
(I Live) One Day at a Time
(1970)
The First 10 Years
(1970)


One Day at a Time was a 1970 album by Joan Baez. Recorded in Nashville, the album was a continuation of Baez' experimentation with country music, begun with the previous year's David's Album. The album is significant in that it was the first to include Baez' own compositions, "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "A Song for David", the former song a ballad for her younger sister Mimi Farina, and the latter song being for her then husband, David Harris, at the time in prison as a conscientious objector. The album also included work by The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson and Pete Seeger.

The album contains two of the songs Baez performed at Woodstock four months earlier: "Joe Hill" and "Sweet Sir Galahad."

The Vanguard reissue contains two outtakes from the One Day at a Time sessions: "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried", both duets with Shurtleff, and both Merle Haggard covers. (The two cuts had first appeared on Baez' 1993 boxed set Rare, Live & Classic.)

Backing musicians were: Harold Bradley, David Briggs, Ken Buttrey, Pete Drake, Richard Festinger, Junior Huskey, Tommy Jackson, Grady Martin, Norbert Putnam, Jerry Reed, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Jerry Shook, Jeffrey Shurtleffe, Buddy Spicher and Pete Wade.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Sweet Sir Galahad" (Joan Baez)
  2. "No Expectations" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
  3. "Long Black Veil" (Marijon Wilkin)
  4. "Ghetto" (H. Banks/B. Bramlett/B. Cruthcer)
  5. "Carry It On" (Pete Seeger/Gil Turner)
  6. "Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South"(traditional) (duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff)
  7. "Seven Bridges Road" (traditional) (duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff)
  8. "Jolie Blonde" (traditional)
  9. "Joe Hill" (Alfred Hayes/Earl Robinson))
  10. "A Song for David" (Joan Baez)
  11. "I Live One Day at a Time" (Willie Nelson) (duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff)