Recently is a studio album by the American musician Joan Baez, released in 1987. It was her first album of new material issued in the US in eight years. Tracks 1 Brothers In Arms (Mark Knopfler) 05:05 2 Recently (Joan Baez) 03:06 3 Asimbonanga (Johnny Clegg) 04:49 4 The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (Jimmy […]
From Every Stage is a double live album recorded by Joan Baez on tour in the summer of 1975. The first half of the album was acoustic, with Baez accompanying herself on her guitar, while the second half features electric backup. Baez’ recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind” from this album was later included in […]
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. […]
Speaking Of Dreams is the twenty-first studio album (and twenty-third overall) by Joan Baez, released in 1989. It mixed personal compositions like the title song with political statements like “China”, which was inspired by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. (Baez also dedicated the album to the students of Tiananmen Square who “nonviolently, and at […]
Blowin’ Away was a 1977 album by Joan Baez, her first after switching from A&M Records to Portrait Records (a then newly created division of CBS Records). Tracks 1 Sailing (Gavin Sutherland) 4:22 2 Many A Mile To Freedom (Anna Capaldi; Steve Winwood) 2:58 3 Miracles (Joan Baez) 5:24 4 Yellow Coat (Steve Goodman) 3:37 […]
Diamonds & Rust is a 1975 album by Joan Baez. Baez is often regarded as an interpreter of other people’s work, and on this album she covered songs written or played by Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, The Allman Brothers, and Jackson Browne. But Diamonds & Rust also contained a number of her own compositions, including […]
“Blue Sky“ is a song by the American rock band the Allman Brothers Band from their third studio album, Eat a Peach (1972), released on Capricorn Records. The song was written and sung by guitarist Dickey Betts, who penned it about his girlfriend (and later wife), Sandy “Bluesky” Wabegijig. The track is notable as one […]
“Diamonds & Rust” is a song written and performed by Joan Baez. It was written in November 1974 and released in 1975. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a “crummy” hotel in Greenwich Village; she recalls giving him a […]