Released November 1976 Length 44:05 | Recorded 1976 Release date November 1976 Label A&M Records | |
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Gulf Winds was an album composed of songs written and performed by Joan Baez. The album was released in 1976, and 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. "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.
Contents
Gulf Winds is the only Baez album without one single cover; 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."Gulf winds
Track listing
All tracks composed by Joan Baez
- "Sweeter for Me" 4:25
- "Seabirds" 4:32
- "Caruso" 3:42
- "Still Waters at Night" 3:01
- "Kingdom of Childhood" 7:51
- "O Brother!" 3:19
- "Time Is Passing Us By" 3:43
- "Stephanie's Room" 4:05
- "Gulf Winds" 10:29
Personnel
Songs
1Sweeter for Me4:31
2Seabirds4:35
3Caruso3:45