1976 Joan Baez – Gulf Winds
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. “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.
Tracks
1 Sweeter For Me (Joan Baez) 04:28
2 Seabirds (Joan Baez) 04:31
3 Caruso (Joan Baez) 03:43
4 Still Waters At Night (Joan Baez) 03:02
5 Kingdom Of Childhood (Joan Baez) 07:52
6 O Brother! (Joan Baez) 03:20
7 Time Is Passing Us By (Joan Baez) 03:43
8 Stephanie’s Room (Joan Baez) 04:05
9 Gulf Winds (Joan Baez) 10:30
Biography
Musicians
1 Sweeter For Me
| Bass | Donald Dunn |
| Drums | Jim Gordon |
| Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Acoustic Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Electric Piano | Larry Knechtel |
| Piano | Joan Baez |
| Cello | Jesse Ehrlich |
| Cello | Ray Kelley |
| Vocals | Joan Baez |
2 Seabirds
| Bass | Donald Dunn |
| Drums | Jim Gordon |
| Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Acoustic Guitar | Joan Baez |
| Electric Piano | Larry Knechtel |
| Synthesizer | Malcolm Cecil |
| Percussion | Jim Gordon |
| Vocals | Joan Baez |
3 Caruso
| Bass | Donald Dunn |
| Drums | Jim Gordon |
| Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Acoustic Guitar | Joan Baez |
| Organ | Larry Knechtel |
| Piano | Larry Knechtel |
| Percussion | Jim Gordon |
| Vocals | Joan Baez |
4 Still Waters At Night
| Bass | Donald Dunn |
| Drums | Jim Gordon |
| Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Acoustic Guitar | Joan Baez |
| Piano | Larry Knechtel |
| Vocals | Joan Baez |
5 Kingdom Of Childhood
| Bass | Donald Dunn |
| Drums | Jim Gordon |
| Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Acoustic Guitar | Joan Baez |
| Banjo | Dean Parks |
| Piano | Larry Knechtel |
| Synthesizer | Malcolm Cecil |
| Vocals | Joan Baez |
6 O Brother!
| Bass | Donald Dunn |
| Drums | Jim Gordon |
| Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Acoustic Guitar | Joan Baez |
| Electric Piano | Larry Knechtel |
| Organ | Larry Knechtel |
| Percussion | Jim Gordon |
| Vocals | Joan Baez |
7 Time Is Passing Us By
| Bass | Donald Dunn |
| Drums | Jim Gordon |
| Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Acoustic Guitar | Joan Baez |
| Electric Piano | Larry Knechtel |
| Vocals | Joan Baez |
8 Stephanie’s Room
| Guitar | Dean Parks |
| Mandolin | Dean Parks |
| Electric Piano | Larry Knechtel |
| Organ | Larry Knechtel |
| Piano | Joan Baez |
| Synthesizer | Joan Baez |
| Cello | Jesse Ehrlich |
| Cello | Ray Kelley |
| Violin | Sid Sharp |
| Vocals | Joan Baez |
9 Gulf Winds
| Acoustic Guitar | Joan Baez |
Liner Notes
Producer – David Kershenbaum
Producer (Executive) – Bernard Gelb
Arranged By – Dean Parks, Joan Baez
Arranged By (Strings) – Dean Parks
Conductor – Dean Parks
Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
Mixed By – Tommy Vicari
Programming – Malcolm Cecil
Recorded By – Tommy Vicari
Art Direction – Roland Young
Design – Chuck Beeson
Photography – Johanna Van Zantwyk
Mastered At A&M Studios
Mixed At Sound Labs, Hollywood
Recorded At Sound Labs, Hollywood
Recorded At T.O.N.T.O.
Phonographic Copyright A&M Records Inc
Copyright A&M Records Inc