Recently (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Recently
Type = Album
Artist = Joan Baez


Released = July 1987
Recorded = Capitol Studios Los Angeles, 1987
Genre = Folk
Length = 39:24
Label = Gold Castle
Producer = Alan Abrahams
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xgex97q7krrt]
Last album = ""
(1986)
This album = "Recently"
(1987)
Next album = "Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring"
(1988)

"Recently" was a 1987 album by Joan Baez. At the time of its release, it was the performer's first album of new material issued in the U.S. in eight years. As she had done during the 1960s for Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin and Richard Farina, Baez lent her voice to the songwriters of the day, in this case Mark Knopfler, U2 and Peter Gabriel, and found herself straddling a line between attempting to further connect with young audiences (who first became acquainted with her through her appearances at Live Aid and Amnesty International's A Conspiracy of Hope Tour), while reintroducing herself to her established listeners, after such a long absence.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joan Baez; except where indicated

#"Brothers in Arms" (Mark Knopfler)
#"Recently"
#"Asimbonanga" (Johnny Clegg)
#"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" (Jimmy Webb)
#"James and the Gang"
#"Let Us Break Bread Together/Oh Freedom" (Traditional)
#"MLK" (Bono, David Howell Evans, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton)
#"Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" (Chips Moman)
#"Biko" (Peter Gabriel)