Honest Lullaby
Honest Lullaby | ||||
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Studio album by Joan Baez | ||||
Released | July 1979 | |||
Recorded | 1979 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Label | Portrait | |||
Producer | Barry Beckett | |||
Joan Baez chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
Honest Lullaby is a studio album by the American musician Joan Baez, released in 1979.[4] It was her final album on CBS Records' Portrait imprint; it also stood as her last studio album issued in the U.S. until the release of her 1987 album, Recently.
The autobiographical title song was written for her son, Gabriel Harris.[5] It was performed on The Muppet Show in 1980. In addition to her own compositions, the album contained work by Janis Ian and Jackson Browne. "Let Your Love Flow" was originally a 1976 hit for the Bellamy Brothers. In her 1987 memoir, And a Voice to Sing With, Baez speculated that she was likely dropped from CBS due to a political disagreement she'd had with the label's then-president.
Baez dedicated the album to the memory of journalist John L. Wasserman. (Wasserman, who had died the previous February, had written the liner notes to Baez's 1977 compilation, The Best of Joan C. Baez).
The cover photos were taken by photographer Yousuf Karsh.
Track listing
- "Let Your Love Flow" (Larry E. Williams)
- "No Woman No Cry" (Vincent Ford)
- "Light a Light" (Janis Ian)
- "Song at the End of the Movie" (Pierce Pettis)
- "Before the Deluge" (Jackson Browne)
- "Honest Lullaby" (Joan Baez)
- "Michael" (Joan Baez)
- "For Sasha" (Joan Baez)
- "For All We Know" (Sam M. Lewis, J. Fred Coots)
- "Free at Last" (Baez, George Jackson)
Personnel
- Joan Baez - lead vocals, acoustic guitar (5–8)
- Larry Byrom - acoustic guitar (1,3,7)
- Pete Carr - acoustic guitar (2,4,5,7), electric guitar (3)
- Jimmy Johnson - electric guitar (1–3, 4)
- Barry Beckett - keyboards (1–3, 5–7,9,10)
- David Hood - bass guitar (1–7)
- Roger Hawkins - drums (1–3, 5–6)
- Hill Abrahams - violin (4)
- James Crozier - cello (4)
- Charlie McCoy - harmonica (4)
- Ava Aldridge - background vocals
- George Jackson - background vocals
- Lenny LeBlanc - background vocals
- Mac McAnally - background vocals
- Cindy Richardson - background vocals
- George Soulé - background vocals
- Eddie Struzick - background vocals
- Marie Tomlinson - background vocals
References
- ^ "Honest Lullaby Review by William Ruhlmann". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ^ MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1998. p. 34.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 31.
- ^ Herman, Robin (6 July 1979). "Two 60's Songbirds in the Park". The New York Times. p. C1.
- ^ Hartline, Sandra (2 July 1991). "Baez, Hope bring back the magic but fail to attract capacity crowds". The Vancouver Sun. p. C3.
- Baez, Joan. 1987. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Century Hutchinson, London. ISBN 0-7126-1827-9
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- Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square (with Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos)
- Joan Baez
- Joan Baez, Vol. 2
- Joan Baez/5
- Farewell, Angelina
- Noël
- Joan
- Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
- Any Day Now
- David's Album
- One Day at a Time
- Blessed Are...
- Come from the Shadows
- Where Are You Now, My Son?
- Gracias a la Vida: Joan Baez canta en español
- Diamonds & Rust
- Gulf Winds
- Blowin' Away
- Honest Lullaby
- Recently
- Speaking of Dreams
- Play Me Backwards
- Gone from Danger
- Dark Chords on a Big Guitar
- Day after Tomorrow
- Whistle Down the Wind
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Carry It On
- Portrait of Joan Baez
- The First 10 Years
- The Joan Baez Ballad Book
- Hits: Greatest and Others
- The Contemporary Ballad Book
- The Joan Baez Lovesong Album
- Best of Joan C. Baez
- The Joan Baez Country Music Album
- Joan Baez: Classics
- Rare, Live & Classic
- "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
- "Copper Kettle"
- "Diamonds & Rust"
- "Farewell, Angelina"
- "Forever Young"
- "Here's to You"
- "Honest Lullaby"
- "The House of the Rising Sun"
- "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
- "Joe Hill"
- "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"
- "Lily of the West"
- "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word"
- "Mary Hamilton"
- "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
- "Reunion Hill"
- "Scarlet Tide"
- "Silver Dagger"
- "Speaking of Dreams"
- "Sweet Sir Galahad"
- "There but for Fortune"
- "We Shall Overcome"
- "What Have They Done to the Rain"
- Discography
- Albert Baez (father)
- Mimi Fariña (sister)
- David Harris (husband)
- Richard Fariña (brother-in-law)
- Joan Baez: I Am a Noise