Gulf Winds
Gulf Winds is the seventeenth studio album 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. "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, creating a sound reminiscent of her earliest pure folk recordings.
Gulf Winds is the only Baez album without any covers; each song was written by Baez herself.
From the album's liner notes:
Track listing
All tracks composed by Joan BaezSide One
- "Sweeter for Me" – 4:25
- "Seabirds" – 4:32
- "Caruso" – 3:42
- "Still Waters at Night" – 3:01
- "Kingdom of Childhood" – 7:51
- "O Brother!" – 3:19
- "Time Is Passing Us By" – 3:43
- "Stephanie's Room" – 4:05
- "Gulf Winds" – 10:29
Personnel
- Joan Baez – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, synthesizer
- Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar
- Jim Gordon – drums
- Ray Kelley – cello
- Jesse Ehrlich – cello
- Larry Knechtel – acoustic and electric piano, organ
- Dean Parks – acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, string arrangements, conductor
- Sid Sharp – violin
- Malcolm Cecil – synthesizer effects, synthesizer programming
- Tommy Vicari – mix engineer
- Bernard Gelb – executive producer
- Roland Young – art direction
- Chuck Beeson – design
- Johanna Van Zantwyk – photography