Gulf Winds

Gulf Winds
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released November 1976
Recorded 1976
Genre Folk
Length 44:05
Label A&M
Producer David Kershenbaum
Joan Baez chronology
From Every Stage
(1976)		 Gulf Winds
(1976)		 Blowin' Away
(1977)
Professional ratings
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Allmusic [1]

Gulf Winds was an album composed of songs written and performed by Joan Baez. The album was released in 1976, and was her final album of new material for A&M. Baez stated in her autobiography, And a Voice to Sing With, that most of the songs were written while on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue with Bob Dylan.[2] "O Brother!" was a clever reply to Dylan's song "Oh Sister". On the title song, a ten-minute long autobiographical recollection of her childhood, Baez accompanies herself only with her own acoustic guitar (the rest of the album features standard mid-1970s pop/rock backup), creating a sound reminiscent of her earliest pure folks recordings.

Gulf Winds is the only Baez album without one single cover; each song was written by Baez herself.

From the album's liner notes:

"Sometimes, I wake up at night and write a song. Sometimes a tune comes to my head when I'm walking in the hills, and I have to make up words for it. Sometimes I sit in a bar in San Francisco and scribble into a notepad what I call my 'streams of unconsciousness.' When I have enough scribbles in the pad, and enough tunes in my head, I go into the studio and make an album. That's how I made this one."
- Joan Baez

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joan Baez

  1. "Sweeter for Me" 4:25
  2. "Seabirds" 4:32
  3. "Caruso" 3:42
  4. "Still Waters at Night" 3:01
  5. "Kingdom of Childhood" 7:51
  6. "O Brother!" 3:19
  7. "Time Is Passing Us By" 3:43
  8. "Stephanie's Room" 4:05
  9. "Gulf Winds" 10:29

Personnel

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1976 The Billboard 200 62

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Baez, Joan. 1987. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Century Hutchinson, London. ISBN 0-7126-1827-9
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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