''Gulf Winds'' is the seventeenth studio album (and nineteenth overall) by

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, 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

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.Baez, Joan. 1987. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Century Hutchinson, London. "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 any covers; 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 Side One #"Sweeter for Me" 4:25 #"Seabirds" 4:32 #"Caruso" 3:42 #"Still Waters at Night" 3:01 #"Kingdom of Childhood" 7:51 Side Two #"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 *

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– bass * Jim Gordon – drums *Ray Kelley – cello *Jesse Ehrlich – cello *

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– acoustic and electric piano, organ *

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– acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, string arrangements, conductor *Sid Sharp – violin *

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– synthesizer effects, synthesizer programming ;Technical *

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- mix engineer *Bernard Gelb - executive producer *Roland Young - art direction *Chuck Beeson - design *Johanna Van Zantwyk - photography "Special thanks to Carlos Bernal"

Chart positions

References

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