Play Me Backwards

Play Me Backwards

Infobox Album
Name = Play Me Backwards
Type = Album
Artist = Joan Baez


Released = October 1992
Recorded = Nashville, 1992
Genre = Folk
Length = 36:19
Label = Virgin
Producer = Wally Wilson, Kenny Greenberg
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wif8zfh7eh8k link]
*"Rolling Stone" rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/joanbaez/albums/album/118114/review/5945796/play_me_backwards link]
Last album = "Speaking of Dreams"
(1989)
This album = "Play Me Backwards"
(1992)
Next album = "Rare, Live & Classic"
(1993)

"Play Me Backwards" was a 1992 album by Joan Baez. In addition to her own work, she included songs by Mary Chapin Carpenter and Janis Ian. The album marked the first time Baez worked with producers Kenny Greenberg and Wally Wilson, with whom she would continue to work throughout most of the '90s. Also significant was her recording of the Mary Chapin Carpenter song, "Stones in the Road", for which Baez produced her first ever music video. The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.

For the making of this album, Baez worked in Nashville for the first time since recording 1972's "Come from the Shadows".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joan Baez, Wally Wilson and Kenny Greenberg; except where indicated

# "Play Me Backwards"
# "Amsterdam" (Janis Ian)
# "Isaac and Abraham"
# "Stones in the Road" (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
# "Steal Across the Border" (R. Davies)
# "I'm With You" (Joan Baez)
# "I'm With You" (Reprise) (Joan Baez)
# "Strange Rivers" (John Stewart)
# "Through Your Hands" (John Hiatt)
# "The Dream Song"
# "The Edge of Glory"

Credits

*Joan Baez - Guitar, Vocals
*James A. Ball - Engineer
*Greg Barnhill - Vocals (bckgr)
*Richard Bennett - Guitar (Electric)
*Ashley Cleveland - Vocals (bckgr)
*Peter Coleman - Engineer
*Chad Cromwell - Drums
*Tom Dolan - Design
*Jerry Douglas - Dobro, Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Weissenborn
*Roy Gamble - Engineer, Second Engineer
*Carl Gorodetzky - Violin
*Eric Gorodetzky - Engineer, Second Engineer
*Kenny Greenberg - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Producer
*Mick Haggerty - Art Direction
*Vicki Hampton - Vocals (bckgr)
*Mike Lawler - Organ, Synthesizer
*Bob Ludwig - Mastering
*Bob Mason - Cello
*Edgar Meyer - Bass, Bass (Upright)
*Jonell Mosser - Vocals (bckgr)
*Steve Nathan - Organ, Wurlitzer
*Melanie Nissen - Photography
*Greg Parker - Engineer, Second Engineer
*Cyndi Richardson - Vocals (bckgr)
*Jerry Roady - Percussion
*Tom Roady - Percussion
*Chris Rodriguez - Vocals (bckgr)
*Ed Simonton - Engineer, Second Engineer
*Pamela Sixfin - Violin
*Kevin Smith - Mixing
*James Stroud - Drums
*Marcos Suzano - Percussion, Berimbau
*Willie Weeks - Bass
*Kristin Wilkinson - Viola
*Wally Wilson - Synthesizer, Piano, Producer
*Glenn Worf - Bass
*Taylor York - Engineer

LyricsPLAY ME BACKWARDS(Written by Joan Baez, Wally Wilson, Kenny Greenberg & Karen O'Connor)

You don't have to play me backwardsTo get the meaning of my verseYou don't have to die and go to hellTo feel the devil's curse

Well I thought my life was a photographOn the family Christmas cardKids all dressed in buttons and bowsAnd lined up in the yardWere the golden days of childhoodSo lyrical and warmOr did the picture start to fadeOn the day that I was born

I've seen them light the candlesI've heard them bang the drumAnd I've cried Mama, I'm cold as ice!And I got no place to run

Let the night begin there's a pop of skinAnd the sudden rush of scarletThere's a little boy riding on a goat's headAnd a little girl playing the harlotThere's a sacrifice in an empty churchOf sweet li'l baby RoseAnd a man in a mask from MexicoIs peeling off my clothes

I've seen them light the candlesI've heard them bang the drumAnd I've cried Mama, I'm cold as ice!And I got no place to run

So I'm paying for protectionSmoking out the truthChasing recollectionsNailing down the proof

You don't have to play me backwardsTo get the meaning of my verseYou don't have to die and go to hellTo feel the devil's curseI'll stand before your altarAnd tell everything I knowI've come to claim my childhoodAt the chapel of baby Rose

I've seen them light the candlesI've heard them bang the drumI've seen them light the candlesI've heard them bang the drum

© 1992 Gabriel Earl Music (ASCAP), Sony Cross Keys Publishing Co., Inc. (ASCAP), Greenberg Music (BMI)


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