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.
Gulf Winds is the only Baez album without any covers; each song was written by Baez herself.
From the album's liner notes:
All tracks composed by Joan Baez
Side One
Side Two
"Special thanks to Carlos Bernal"
Year | Chart | Position |
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1976 | The Billboard 200 | 62 |
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