Bread and Roses (album)

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Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses cover
Studio album by Judy Collins
Released November 1976
Recorded 1976
Genre Folk
Length 65:28
Label Elektra
Producer Arif Mardin
Professional reviews
Judy Collins chronology
Judith
(1975)		 Bread and Roses
(1976)		 Hard Times for Lovers
(1979)

Bread and Roses was a 1976 album by Judy Collins that attempted to merge the singer's political convictions with the commercial success of the previous year's Judith. Political statements like the title song, originally a poem by James Oppenheim commonly associated with a 1912 garment workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, were balanced with such pop compositions as Elton John's "Come Down in Time", but the album failed to achieve the commercial success of Judith.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Bread and Roses" (Mimi Fariña, James Oppenheim)
  2. "Everything Must Change" (Kewlwy, Young)
  3. "Special Delivery" (Mernit)
  4. "Out of Control" (Judy Collins)
  5. "Plegaria a un Labrador (Prayer to a Laborer)" (Victor Jara)
  6. "Come Down in Time" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin)
  7. "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" (Clark)
  8. "I Didn't Know About You" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell)
  9. "Take This Longing" (Leonard Cohen)
  10. "Love Hurts" (Gold)
  11. "Marjorie" (Judy Collins)
  12. "King David" (DeLaMare, Howells)