| 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 | |||
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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.
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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
