Gulf Winds

Gulf Winds
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released	November 1976
Recorded	1976
Genre	Folk
Length	44:05
Label	A&M
Producer	David Kershenbaum
Joan Baez chronology
From Every Stage (1976) Gulf Winds (1976) Blowin' Away (1977)

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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.^[2] "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 one single cover; each song was written by Baez herself.

From the album's liner notes:

"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

1. "Sweeter for Me" 4:25
2. "Seabirds" 4:32
3. "Caruso" 3:42
4. "Still Waters at Night" 3:01
5. "Kingdom of Childhood" 7:51
6. "O Brother!" 3:19
7. "Time Is Passing Us By" 3:43
8. "Stephanie's Room" 4:05
9. "Gulf Winds" 10:29

Personnel

• Joan Baez – vocals, guitar, piano
• Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass
• Jim Gordon – drums
• Ray Kelly – cello
• Jesse Ehrlich – cello
• Larry Knechtel – piano
• Dean Parks – guitar
• Sid Sharp – violin
• Malcolm Cecil – synthesizer

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