Where Are You Now, My Son?

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Where Are You Now, My Son?
Where Are You Now, My Son? cover
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released March 1973
Recorded Hanoi, Vietnam December 18 - 27, 1972, Nashville, January 1973
Genre Folk
Length 44:42
Label A&M
Producer Side One: Joan Baez & Norbert Putnam, Side Two: Joan Baez & Henry Lewy
Professional reviews
Joan Baez chronology
Come from the Shadows
(1972)		 Where Are You Now, My Son?
(1973)		 Gracias A la Vida
(1974)

Where Are You Now, My Son? is an album Joan Baez released in early 1973. One side of the album featured recordings Baez made during a US bombing raid on Hanoi over Christmas 1972. Included on the recording are the voices of Barry Romo, Michael Allen, and human rights attorney Telford Taylor, with whom Baez made her famous 1972 visit to North Vietnam.

The album's other side, featuring songs, written by Baez, Mimi Farina and Hoyt Axton, was recorded in Nashville in January 1973.

From the album's liner notes:

"...The war in Indochina is not yet over, and the war against violence has barely begun...." - Joan Baez

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Only Heaven Knows" (Joan Baez)
  2. "Less Than the Song" (Hoyt Axton)
  3. "A Young Gypsy" (Baez)
  4. "Mary Call" (Mimi Farina)
  5. "Rider, Pass By" (Baez)
  6. "Best of Friends" (Farina)
  7. "Windrose" (Baez)
  8. "Where Are You Now, My Son?" (Baez)