Where Are You Now, My Son?
Where Are You Now, My Son? | ||||
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Studio album by Joan Baez | ||||
Released | March 1973 | |||
Recorded | Hanoi, Vietnam: December 18–27, 1972; Nashville: January 1973 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 44:42 | |||
Label | A&M[1] | |||
Producer | Joan Baez, Norbert Putnam, Henry Lewy | |||
Joan Baez chronology | ||||
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Where Are You Now, My Son? is the fourteenth studio album (and sixteenth overall) by Joan Baez, released in 1973.[4][5] One side of the album featured recordings Baez made during a US bombing raid on Hanoi over Christmas 1972.[6] Included on the recording are the voices of Barry Romo, Michael Allen and human rights attorney Telford Taylor, with whom Baez made her famous 1972 visit to North Vietnam.
Joan also recorded a version of this song in which her spoken words and lyrics were in French. The French version was included in an album published in 1974 with the title bien sûr la guerre est finie. The rest of the songs are the same as those on the English language versions.
The album's other side, featuring songs written by Baez, Mimi Fariña, and Hoyt Axton, was recorded in Nashville in January 1973.
From the album's liner notes:
... The war in Indochina is not yet over, and the war against violence has barely begun ...
— Joan Baez
Critical reception
AllMusic called "A Young Gypsy" "one of Baez's best original songs."[2]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Joan Baez, except where indicated.
- "Only Heaven Knows" - 2:35
- "Less Than the Song" (Hoyt Axton) - 3:27
- "A Young Gypsy" - 3:36
- "Mary Call" (Mimi Fariña) - 3:34
- "Rider, Pass By" - 4:13
- "Best of Friends" (Mimi Fariña) - 3:03
- "Windrose" - 3:42 (On 1980 stereo vinyl reissue by Pickwick Records SPC-3748, this track is excluded)
- "Where Are You Now, My Son?" - 21:42
Personnel
Chart positions
Year | Chart | Position |
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1973 | Billboard 200 | 138[7] |
References
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 361.
- ^ a b "Where Are You Now, My Son? - Joan Baez | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 31.
- ^ "Joan Baez | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ Southwick, Steven; Charney, Dennis (April 30, 2018). Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108626026 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Joan Baez returns to Vietnam after 41 years. Why?". Christian Science Monitor. April 10, 2013.
- ^ "Joan Baez". Billboard.
See also
- v
- t
- e
- 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