Blessed Are...

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Blessed Are...
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released	July 1971
Recorded	Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1971
Genre	Folk
Length	78:09
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Maynard Solomon
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (mixed) link
Joan Baez chronology
Carry It On (1971) Blessed Are... (1971) Come from the Shadows (1972)

Blessed Are... was a 1971 album by Joan Baez, and her last with Vanguard Records. It included her hit cover of The Band's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and work by Kris Kristofferson, the Beatles, Jesse Winchester and The Rolling Stones, as well as a significant number of Baez' own compositions. Like its immediate predecessors, the album was recorded in Nashville, and had a decidedly country feel.

It also include a bonus 7" 33 1/3 rpm record which included the songs "Maria Dolores" and Woody Guthrie's "Deportee", which she dedicated to the farmers of the world, adding, "May they soon cease to be victims."

[edit] Track listing

1. "Blessed Are..." (Joan Baez)
2. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Robbie Robertson)
3. "The Salt Of The Earth" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
4. "Three Horses" (Joan Baez)
5. "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" (Jesse Winchester)
6. "Last, Lonely And Wretched" (Joan Baez)
7. "Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave)" (D. Patton)
8. "Outside The Nashville City Limits" (Joan Baez)
9. "San Francisco Mabel Joy" (Mickey Newbury)
10. "When Time Is Stolen" (Joan Baez)
11. "Heaven Help Us All" (Roger Miller)
12. "Angeline" (Mickey Newbury) (Joan Baez)
13. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Kris Kristofferson)
14. "Let It Be" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
15. "Put Your Hand In The Hand" (Gene MacLellan)
16. "Gabriel And Me" (Joan Baez)
17. "Milanese Waltz" (Joan Baez)
18. "The Hitchhikers' Song" (Joan Baez)
19. "The 33rd Of August" (Joan Baez)
20. "Fifteen Months" (Joan Baez)
21. "Maria Dolores" (F. Garcia, J. Morillo) (bonus track)
22. "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)" (Woody Guthrie/Martin Hoffman) (bonus track)