One Day at a Time (Joan Baez album)
One Day at a Time | ||||
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Studio album by Joan Baez | ||||
Released | January 1970 | |||
Recorded | October 1969 | |||
Studio | Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country folk | |||
Length | 39:04 | |||
Label | Vanguard VSD-79310 | |||
Producer | Maynard Solomon | |||
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Singles from One Day at a Time | ||||
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One Day at a Time is the 11th studio album by Joan Baez, released in January 1970. Recorded in Nashville, the album was a continuation of Baez' experimentation with country music, begun with the previous year's David's Album. It is significant in that it was the first to include Baez' own compositions, "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "A Song for David", the former song a ballad for her younger sister Mimi Fariña, and the latter song being for her then-husband, David Harris, at the time in prison as a conscientious objector. One Day at a Time also included work by The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, and Pete Seeger.
The album contains four of the songs Baez had performed at Woodstock four months earlier: "I Live One Day at a Time", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad", and “Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South”.
The Vanguard reissue contains two outtakes from the One Day at a Time sessions: "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried", both duets with Jeffrey Shurtleff, and both Merle Haggard covers. (The two cuts had first appeared on Baez' 1993 boxed set Rare, Live & Classic). (The recording of "Mama Tried" includes an initial aborted take, interrupted when session guitarist Jerry Reed's finger becomes stuck between his guitar strings, followed by laughter by all present at Reed's mishap; the musicians and Baez then regain composure and perform a second take of the song.)
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Track listing
- "Sweet Sir Galahad" (Joan Baez) – 3:43
- "No Expectations" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:47
- "Long Black Veil" (Marijohn Wilkin, Danny Dill) – 3:24
- "Ghetto" (Homer Banks, Bonnie Bramlett, Bettye Crutcher) – 4:33
- "Carry It On" (Pete Seeger, Gil Turner) – 2:22
- "Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South" (Traditional) (duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff) – 2:47
- "Seven Bridges Road" (Steve Young) (duet with Shurtleff) – 3:42
- "Jolie Blonde" (Traditional) – 2:00
- "Joe Hill" (Alfred Hayes, Earl Robinson) – 3:25
- "A Song for David" (Baez) – 4:57
- "(I Live) One Day at a Time" (Willie Nelson) (duet with Shurtleff) – 3:31
Reissue bonus tracks
- "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) (duet with Shurtleff) – 3:13
- "Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) (duet with Shurtleff) – 2:53
Personnel
- Joan Baez – vocals, guitar
- Pete Drake – pedal steel guitar
- Roy Huskey, Jr. – bass guitar
- Tommy Jackson – fiddle
- Jerry Shook – guitar
- Jerry Reed – guitar
- Harold Bradley – guitar
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
- Harold Rugg – steel guitar, Dobro
- Grady Martin – guitar, Dobro, sitar
- Buddy Spicher – fiddle
- Norbert Putnam – bass guitar
- Kenny Buttrey – drums
- David Briggs – piano, harpsichord
- Richard Festinger – guitar
- Charlie McCoy – harmonica, vibraphone, organ
- Henry Strzelecki – bass guitar
- Pete Wade – guitar
- Technical
- Jim Marshall – photography
Charts
Chart (1971) | Peak position |
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Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[2] | 35 |
US Billboard 200[3] | 80 |
References
- ^ One Day at a Time at AllMusic
- ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 3806". RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
- ^ "Joan Baez Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
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- 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
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- "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