Gulf Winds
Gulf Winds | ||||
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Studio album by Joan Baez | ||||
Released | November 1976 | |||
Recorded | 1976 | |||
Studio | Sound Labs, Los Angeles; synthesizers at TONTO, Santa Monica[1] | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 44:05 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | David Kershenbaum | |||
Joan Baez chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [2] |
Gulf Winds is the seventeenth studio album (and nineteenth overall) by Joan Baez, released in 1976. It 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.[3] "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 folk recordings.
Gulf Winds is the only Baez album without any covers; 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
Track listing
All tracks composed by Joan Baez
Side One
- "Sweeter for Me" 4:25
- "Seabirds" 4:32
- "Caruso" 3:42
- "Still Waters at Night" 3:01
- "Kingdom of Childhood" 7:51
Side Two
- "O Brother!" 3:19
- "Time Is Passing Us By" 3:43
- "Stephanie's Room" 4:05
- "Gulf Winds" 10:29
Personnel
- Joan Baez – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, synthesizer
- Duck Dunn – bass
- Jim Gordon – drums
- Ray Kelley – cello
- Jesse Ehrlich – cello
- Larry Knechtel – acoustic and electric piano, organ
- Dean Parks – acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, string arrangements, conductor
- Sid Sharp – violin
- Malcolm Cecil – synthesizer effects, synthesizer programming
- Technical
- Tommy Vicari - mix engineer
- Bernard Gelb - executive producer
- Roland Young - art direction
- Chuck Beeson - design
- Johanna Van Zantwyk - photography
"Special thanks to Carlos Bernal"
Chart positions
Year | Chart | Position |
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1976 | The Billboard 200 | 62 |
References
- v
- t
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- Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square (with Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos)
- Joan Baez
- Joan Baez, Vol. 2
- Joan Baez/5
- Farewell, Angelina
- Noël
- Joan
- Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
- Any Day Now
- David's Album
- One Day at a Time
- Blessed Are...
- Come from the Shadows
- Where Are You Now, My Son?
- Gracias a la Vida: Joan Baez canta en español
- Diamonds & Rust
- Gulf Winds
- Blowin' Away
- Honest Lullaby
- Recently
- Speaking of Dreams
- Play Me Backwards
- Gone from Danger
- Dark Chords on a Big Guitar
- Day after Tomorrow
- Whistle Down the Wind
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Carry It On
- Portrait of Joan Baez
- The First 10 Years
- The Joan Baez Ballad Book
- Hits: Greatest and Others
- The Contemporary Ballad Book
- The Joan Baez Lovesong Album
- Best of Joan C. Baez
- The Joan Baez Country Music Album
- Joan Baez: Classics
- Rare, Live & Classic
- "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
- "Copper Kettle"
- "Diamonds & Rust"
- "Farewell, Angelina"
- "Forever Young"
- "Here's to You"
- "Honest Lullaby"
- "The House of the Rising Sun"
- "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
- "Joe Hill"
- "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"
- "Lily of the West"
- "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word"
- "Mary Hamilton"
- "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
- "Reunion Hill"
- "Scarlet Tide"
- "Silver Dagger"
- "Speaking of Dreams"
- "Sweet Sir Galahad"
- "There but for Fortune"
- "We Shall Overcome"
- "What Have They Done to the Rain"
- Discography
- Albert Baez (father)
- Mimi Fariña (sister)
- David Harris (husband)
- Richard Fariña (brother-in-law)
- Joan Baez: I Am a Noise