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Blessed Are...

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Released
  
July 1971

Length
  
78:09

Producer
  
Norbert Putnam

Genre
  
Folk, folk rock

Label
  
Vanguard

Recorded
  
Quadrafonic Sound Studios Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1971

Blessed Are... was a 1971 album by Joan Baez, and her last with Vanguard Records. It included her hit cover of The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and work by Kris Kristofferson, the Beatles, Jesse Winchester and The Rolling Stones, as well as a significant number of Baez' own compositions. Like its immediate predecessors, the album was recorded in Nashville, and had a decidedly country feel.

Contents

The original vinyl version was released as a double album, which also included a bonus 7" 33 1⁄3 rpm record which included the songs "Maria Dolores" and Woody Guthrie's "Deportee", which she dedicated to the farmers of the world, adding, "May they soon cease to be victims."

It would be Baez' final studio album for Vanguard, her label of the previous eleven years, as she was to sign with A&M in early 1972.

The 2005 Vanguard reissue consolidated the original album, plus "Maria Dolores" and "Deportee" onto a single CD, as well as a previously unreleased bonus track, "Warm and Tender Love".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joan Baez; except where indicated

  1. "Blessed Are..." – 3:03
  2. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Robbie Robertson) – 3:22
  3. "The Salt of the Earth" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:22
  4. "Three Horses" – 7:03
  5. "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" (Jesse Winchester) – 3:07
  6. "Last, Lonely and Wretched" – 3:42
  7. "Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave)" (David Patton) – 3:21
  8. "Outside The Nashville City Limits" – 3:20
  9. "San Francisco Mabel Joy" (Mickey Newbury) – 4:23
  10. "When Time Is Stolen" – 2:58
  11. "Heaven Help Us All" (Ronald Miller) – 3:32
  12. "Angeline" (Mickey Newbury) – 3:37
  13. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Kris Kristofferson) – 2:58
  14. "Let It Be" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:48
  15. "Put Your Hand In The Hand" (Gene MacLellan) – 3:20
  16. "Gabriel and Me" – 3:27
  17. "Milanese Waltz/Marie Flore" – 5:55
  18. "The Hitchhikers' Song" – 4:19
  19. "The 33rd of August" (Mickey Newbury) – 3:42
  20. "Fifteen Months" – 4:30
  21. "Maria Dolores" (F. Garcia, J. Morillo) (track on bonus 7") – 3:25
  22. "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)" (Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman) (track on bonus 7") – 5:15

Personnel

  • Joan Baez – Guitar, Vocals
  • Norman Blake – Dobro, Guitar
  • David Briggs – Keyboards
  • Kenneth A. Buttrey – Drums
  • Gene Eichelberger – Engineer
  • Dave Harris – Artwork
  • The Holladay – Singers
  • Jobriath – Design
  • Ed Logan – Tenor saxophone
  • Jack Lothrop – Producer
  • Jim Marshall – Photography
  • Charlie McCoy – Harmonica
  • Norbert Putnam – Bass, Arranger, Producer
  • Buddy Spicher – Violin
  • Pete Wade – Guitar

    • References

    Blessed Are... Wikipedia
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