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Gulf Winds was an album composed of songs written and performed by Joan Baez. The album was released in 1976, and was her final album of new material for A&M. Baez stated in her autobiography, And a Voice to Sing With, that most of the songs were written while on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue with Bob Dylan. “O Brother!“ was a clever reply to Dylan’s song “Oh Sister”. On the title song, a ten-minute long autobiographical recollection of her childhood, Baez accompanies herself only with her own acoustic guitar (the rest of the album features standard mid-1970s pop/rock backup), creating a sound reminiscent of her earliest pure folks recordings. Gulf Winds is the only Baez album without one single cover; each song was written by Baez herself. From : :“Sometimes, I... Read on...