Blessed Are... | ||||
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Studio album by Joan Baez | ||||
Released | July 1971 | |||
Recorded | Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1971 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 78:09 | |||
Label | Vanguard | |||
Producer | Norbert Putnam | |||
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Allmusic | link |
Rolling Stone | (mixed) link |
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."
The 2005 Vanguard reissue contains the bonus track "Warm and Tender Love".
All tracks composed by Joan Baez; except where indicated
Year | Chart | Position |
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1971 | Billboard 200 | 11 |