| Gulf Winds | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Joan Baez |
| Cover: | File:JBaez_GulfWinds.jpg |
| Released: | November 1976 |
| Recorded: | 1976 |
| Studio: | Sound Labs, Los Angeles; synthesizers at TONTO, Santa Monica[1] |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Length: | 44:05 |
| Label: | A&M |
| Producer: | David Kershenbaum |
| Prev Title: | From Every Stage |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | Blowin' Away |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
Gulf Winds is the seventeenth studio album (and nineteenth overall) 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.[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 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
All tracks composed by Joan Baez
Side One
Side Two
"Special thanks to Carlos Bernal"