David's Album

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David's Album
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released May 1969
Recorded CBS Studios, Nashville, September 1968
Genre Folk, country
Length 44:41
Label Vanguard
Producer Maynard Solomon
Professional reviews
Joan Baez chronology
Any Day Now
(1968)		 David's Album
(1969)		 (I Live) One Day at a Time
(1970)

David's Album was a 1969 album by Joan Baez, recorded in Nashville. It was Baez' eleventh album to date. Her then husband, David Harris, a country music fan, was about to be imprisoned for draft resistance, and she recorded the album as a gift to him.

Cover sketch is a drawing of David Harris by Joan Baez.

The Vanguard reissue contains two previously unreleased tracks, "How Can I Miss You", a duet with Baez' sister Mimi Fariña, and Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind."

[edit] Track listing

  1. "If I Knew" (Nina Dusheck, Pauline Marden)
  2. "Rock Salt and Nails" (Bruce Utah Phillips)
  3. "Glad Bluebird of Happiness" (Darryl Skrabak)
  4. "Green Green Grass Of Home" (Curly Putman)
  5. "Will the Circle be Unbroken" (traditional)
  6. "The Tramp on the Street" (traditional)
  7. "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" (traditional)
  8. "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" (traditional)
  9. "Hickory Wind" (Gram Parsons, Bob Buchanan)
  10. "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" (A.P. Carter, Tom Ashley)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1969 Billboard Pop Albums 36
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Joan Baez
Studio albums
Joan Baez (1960) • Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (1961) • Joan Baez/5 (1964) • Farewell, Angelina (1965) • Noël (1966) • Joan (1967) • Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time (1968) • Any Day Now (1968) • David's Album (1969) • I Live One Day at a Time (1970) • Carry It On (1971) • Blessed Are... (1971) • Come from the Shadows (1972) • Where Are You Now, My Son? (1973) • Gracias a la Vida: Joan Baez canta en español (1974) • Diamonds & Rust (1975) • Gulf Winds (1976) • Blowin' Away (1977) • Honest Lullaby (1979) • Recently (1987) • Speaking of Dreams (1989) • Play Me Backwards (1992) • Gone From Danger (1997) • Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (2003) • Day after Tomorrow (2008)
Live albums
Joan Baez in Concert (1962) • Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 (1963) • From Every Stage (1976) • Live Europe 83 (1983) • Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (1988) • Ring Them Bells (1995) • Live at Newport (1996; recorded 1963-65) • Bowery Songs (2005)
Compilations
Notable songs
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