One Day at a Time (album)

One Day at a Time was a 1970 album by Joan Baez. Recorded in Nashville, the album was a continuation of Baez' experimentation with country music, begun with the previous year's David's Album. The album is significant in that it was the first to include Baez' own compositions, "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "A Song for David", the former song a ballad for her younger sister Mimi Fariña, and the latter song being for her then husband, David Harris, at the time in prison as a conscientious objector. The album also included work by The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson and Pete Seeger.

The album contains two of the songs Baez had performed at Woodstock four months earlier: "Joe Hill" and "Sweet Sir Galahad."

The Vanguard reissue contains two outtakes from the One Day at a Time sessions: "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried", both duets with Shurtleff, and both Merle Haggard covers. (The two cuts had first appeared on Baez' 1993 boxed set Rare, Live & Classic.)

Track listing

1. "Sweet Sir Galahad" (Joan Baez) – 3:43
2. "No Expectations" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:47
3. "Long Black Veil" (Marijohn Wilkin, Danny Dill) – 3:24
4. "Ghetto" (Homer Banks, Bonnie Bramlett, Bettye Crutcher) – 4:33
5. "Carry It On" (Pete Seeger, Gil Turner) – 2:22
6. "Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South" (Traditional) (duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff) – 2:47
7. "Seven Bridges Road" (Steve Young) (duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff) – 3:42
8. "Jolie Blonde" (Traditional) – 2:00
9. "Joe Hill" (Alfred Hayes, Earl Robinson) – 3:25
10. "A Song for David" (Joan Baez) – 4:57
11. "I Live One Day at a Time" (Willie Nelson) (duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff) – 3:31

Personnel

• Joan Baez – vocals, guitar
• Pete Drake – pedal steel guitar
• Roy Huskey, Jr. – bass
• Tommy Jackson – fiddle
• Jerry Shook – guitar
• Jerry Reed – guitar
• Harold Bradley – guitar
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
• Harold Rugg – steel guitar, dobro
• Grady Martin – guitar, dobro, sitar
• Buddy Spicher – fiddle
• Norbert Putnam – bass
• Kenny Buttrey – drums
• David Briggs – piano, harpsichord
• Richard Festinger – guitar
• Charlie McCoy – harmonica, vibraphone, organ
• Henry Strzelecki – bass
• Pete Wade –guitar
• Jim Marshall - photography

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