Gulf Winds
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| Studio album by Joan Baez | ||
| Released | November 1976 | |
| Recorded | 1976 | |
| Genre | Folk | |
| Length | 44:05 | |
| Label | A&M | |
| Producer(s) | David Kirschenbaum | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Joan Baez chronology | ||
| From Every Stage (1976) |
Gulf Winds (1976) |
Blowin' Away (1977) |
Gulf Winds was an album comprised of songs written and performed by Joan Baez. The album was released in 1976, and was her final album of new material for A&M. Baez stated in her autobiography, "And a Voice to Sing With", that most of the songs were written while on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue with Bob Dylan **. "O Brother!" was a clever reply to Dylan's song "Oh Sister". On the title song, a ten-minute long autobiographical recollection of her childhood, Baez accompanies herself only with her own acoustic guitar (the rest of the album features standard mid'70s pop/rock backup), creating a sound reminiscent of her earliest pure folks recordings.
Gulf Winds is the only Baez album without one single cover; each song was written by Baez herself.
From the album's liner notes:
- "Sometimes, I wake up at night and write a song. Sometimes a tune comes to my head when I'm walking in the hills, and I have to make up words for it. Sometimes I sit in a bar in San Francisco and scribble into a notepad what I call my 'streams of unconsciousness.' When I have enough scribbles in the pad, and enough tunes in my head, I go into the studio and make an album. That's how I made this one."
- - Joan Baez
[edit] Track listing
- "Sweeter For Me" (Joan Baez)
- "Seabirds" (Joan Baez)
- "Caruso" (Joan Baez)
- "Still Waters At Night" (Joan Baez)
- "Kingdom Of Childhood" (Joan Baez)
- "O Brother!" (Joan Baez)
- "Time Is Passing Us By" (Joan Baez)
- "Stephanie's Room" (Joan Baez)
- "Gulf Winds" (Joan Baez)
[edit] References
- Baez, Joan. 1987. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Century Hutchinson, London. ISBN 0-7126-1827-9
