Gulf Winds
Gulf Winds | ||||
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- Joan Baez – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, synthesizer
- Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar
- 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
[edit]Year | Chart | Position |
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1976 | The Billboard 200 | 62 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Joan Baez - Gulf Winds". Discogs. 1976.
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Baez, Joan. 1987. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Century Hutchinson, London. ISBN 0-7126-1827-9