Gulf Winds

Infobox Album
Name = Gulf Winds
Type = Album
Artist = Joan Baez


Released = November 1976
Recorded = 1976
Genre = Folk
Length = 44:05
Label = A&M
Producer = David Kershenbaum
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:b265mpm39fco link]
Last album = "From Every Stage"
(1976)
This album = "Gulf Winds"
(1976)
Next album = "Blowin' Away"
(1977)

"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 folks recordings.

"Gulf Winds" is the only Baez album without one single cover; each song was written by Baez herself.

From :

:"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."::- Joan Baez

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joan Baez

#"Sweeter for Me"
#"Seabirds"
#"Caruso"
#"Still Waters at Night"
#"Kingdom of Childhood"
#"O Brother!"
#"Time Is Passing Us By"
#"Stephanie's Room"
#"Gulf Winds"

References

* Baez, Joan. 1987. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Century Hutchinson, London. ISBN 0-7126-1827-9