Brothers in Arms (Joan Baez album)

Brothers in Arms (Joan Baez album)
Compilation album by Joan Baez
Released September 1991
Genre Folk
Length 55:23
Label Capitol
Joan Baez chronology
Speaking of Dreams
(1989)		 Brothers in Arms
(1991)		 No Woman No Cry
(1992)
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Brothers in Arms was Joan Baez's 1991 compilation, finishing her three albums with Capitol. The album is a thematic one on the subject of political protest, named after, and leading with a song about American Marines in the Vietnam War, followed with another song on the Vietnam War,and songs about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, war in El Salvador, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Track listing

  1. "Brothers in Arms" (Mark Knopfler)
  2. "Goodnight Saigon" (Billy Joel)
  3. "El Salvador" (Gregory Copeland)
  4. "Warriors Of The Sun, She's Got A Ticket" (Joan Baez/Tracy Chapman)
  5. "Biko" (Peter Gabriel)
  6. "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" (Joan Baez)
  7. "Asimbonanga" (Johnny Clegg)
  8. "MLK" (Paul Hewson, David Evans, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.)
  9. "Let Us Break Bread Together" (Joan Baez)
  10. "China" (Joan Baez)
  11. "Let It Be" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
  12. "Brothers In Arms (reprise)" (Mark Knopfler)
Joan Baez
Studio albums
Joan Baez (1960) • Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (1961) • Joan Baez/5 (1964) • Farewell, Angelina (1965) • Noël (1966) • Joan (1967) • Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time (1968) • Any Day Now (1968) • David's Album (1969) • I Live One Day at a Time (1970) • Carry It On (1971) • Blessed Are... (1971) • Come from the Shadows (1972) • Where Are You Now, My Son? (1973) • Gracias a la Vida: Joan Baez canta en español (1974) • Diamonds & Rust (1975) • Gulf Winds (1976) • Blowin' Away (1977) • Honest Lullaby (1979) • Recently (1987) • Speaking of Dreams (1989) • Play Me Backwards (1992) • Gone From Danger (1997) • Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (2003) • Day after Tomorrow (2008)
Live albums
Joan Baez in Concert (1962) • Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 (1963) • From Every Stage (1976) • Live Europe 83 (1983) • Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (1988) • Ring Them Bells (1995) • Live at Newport (1996; recorded 1963-65) • Bowery Songs (2005)
Compilations
Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square (1959) • Portrait of Joan Baez (1967)  • The First 10 Years (1970) • The Joan Baez Ballad Book (1972) • Hits: Greatest and Others (1973) • The Contemporary Ballad Book (1974) • The Joan Baez Lovesong Album (1976) • Best of Joan C. Baez (1977) • The Joan Baez Country Music Album (1979) • Joan Baez: Classics (1986) • Rare, Live & Classic (1993) • Best of Joan Baez: The Millennium Collection (2000) • The Complete A&M Recordings (2003)
Notable songs
"Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" • "China" • "Day After Tomorrow" • "Diamonds & Rust" • "Farewell, Angelina" • "Forever Young" • "Here's to You"  • "Honest Lullaby" • "House of the Rising Sun" • "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" • "Joe Hill" • "Lily of the West" • "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" • "Love Song to a Stranger" • "Mary Hamilton" • "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" • "Recently" • "Reunion Hill" • "Rexroth's Daughter" • "Scarlet Tide" • "Silver Dagger" • "Speaking of Dreams" • "Stones in the Road" • "Sweet Sir Galahad" • "There but for Fortune" • "We Shall Overcome" • "What Have They Done to the Rain"
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