Play Me Backwards
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| Studio album by Joan Baez | ||||
| Released | October 1992 | |||
| Recorded | Nashville, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 36:19 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Wally Wilson, Kenny Greenberg | |||
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Play Me Backwards was a 1992 album by Joan Baez. In addition to her own work, she included songs by Mary Chapin Carpenter and Janis Ian. The album marked the first time Baez worked with producers Kenny Greenberg and Wally Wilson, with whom she would continue to work throughout most of the '90s. Also significant was her recording of the Mary Chapin Carpenter song, "Stones in the Road", for which Baez produced her first ever music video. The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.
For the making of this album, Baez worked in Nashville for the first time since recording 1972's Come from the Shadows.
[edit] Track listing
All tracks composed by Joan Baez, Wally Wilson and Kenny Greenberg; except where indicated
- "Play Me Backwards"
- "Amsterdam" (Janis Ian)
- "Isaac and Abraham"
- "Stones in the Road" (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
- "Steal Across the Border" (Ron Davies)
- "I'm With You" (Joan Baez)
- "I'm With You" (Reprise) (Joan Baez)
- "Strange Rivers" (John Stewart)
- "Through Your Hands" (John Hiatt)
- "The Dream Song"
- "The Edge of Glory"
[edit] Personnel
- Joan Baez - Guitar, Vocals
- James A. Ball - Engineer
- Greg Barnhill - Background Vocals
- Richard Bennett - Electric Guitar
- Ashley Cleveland - Background Vocals
- Peter Coleman - Engineer
- Chad Cromwell - Drums
- Tom Dolan - Design
- Jerry Douglas - Dobro, Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Weissenborn
- Roy Gamble - Engineer, Second Engineer
- Aaron D. Jacoves -A&R/Executive Producer
- Carl Gorodetzky - Violin
- Eric Gorodetzky - Engineer, Second Engineer
- Kenny Greenberg - Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Producer
- Mick Haggerty - Art Direction
- Vicki Hampton - Background Vocals
- Mike Lawler - Organ, Synthesizer
- Bob Ludwig - Mastering
- Bob Mason - Cello
- Edgar Meyer - Upright Bass
- Jonell Mosser - Background Vocals
- Steve Nathan - Organ, Wurlitzer
- Melanie Nissen - Photography
- Greg Parker - Engineer, Second Engineer
- Cyndi Richardson - Background Vocals
- Jerry Roady - Percussion
- Tom Roady - Percussion
- Chris Rodriguez - Background Vocals
- Ed Simonton - Engineer, Second Engineer
- Pamela Sixfin - Violin
- Kevin Smith - Mixing
- James Stroud - Drums
- Marcos Suzano - Percussion, Berimbau
- Willie Weeks - Bass
- Kristin Wilkinson - Viola
- Wally Wilson - Synthesizer, Piano, Producer
- Glenn Worf - Bass
- Taylor York - Engineer
