Bread and Roses (album) explained

Bread and Roses
Type:	studio album
Artist:	Judy Collins
Cover:	Judybread.jpg
Released:	August 1976
Recorded:	1976
Genre:	Folk
Label:	Elektra
Producer:	Arif Mardin
Prev Title:	Judith
Prev Year:	1975
Next Title:	So Early in the Spring
Next Year:	1977

Bread and Roses is the eleventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1976. The album peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.^[1]

Merging the singer's political convictions with the commercial success of the previous year's Judith, political statements like the title song, originally a poem by James Oppenheim commonly associated with a 1912 garment workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, were balanced with such pop compositions as Elton John's "Come Down in Time".

Released as the single from the album was "Special Delivery" by Billy Mernit. Luther Vandross sang background on this album, one of his earliest commercially recorded vocal performances.

Track listing

1. "Bread and Roses" (Mimi Fariña, James Oppenheim) – 3:05
2. "Everything Must Change" (Benard Ighner) – 4:25
3. "Special Delivery" (Billy Mernit) – 3:55
4. "Out of Control" (Judy Collins) – 3:00
5. "Plegaria a un Labrador (Prayer to a Laborer)" (Víctor Jara) – 4:04
6. "Come Down in Time" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) – 3:23
7. "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" (Charles Badger Clark, Billy Simon) – 4:32
8. "I Didn't Know About You" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 3:29
9. "Take This Longing" (Leonard Cohen) – 5:25
10. "Love Hurts" (Andrew Gold) – 3:17
11. "Marjorie" (Judy Collins) – 0:43
12. "King David" (Walter De La Mare, Herbert Howells) – 4:27

Personnel

• Judy Collins - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
• Gloria Agostini – Harp
• Rubens Bassini – Percussion
• Sy Berger – Trombone
• Jay Berliner – Guitar
• Kenneth Bichel – Synthesizer
• Don Brooks – Harmonica
• Robin Clark – Vocals
• Dom Cortese – Accordion
• Richard Davis – Bass
• Erin Dickins – Vocals
• Mark Doyle – Guitar
• Steve Gadd – Drums
• Mickey Gravine – Trombone
• Urbie Green – Trombone
• Corky Hale – Harmonica
• Hank Jones – Piano
• Gail Kantor – Vocals
• Tony Levin – Bass
• George Marge – Horn
• Charles McCracken – Cello
• Hugh McCracken – Guitar
• Merle Miller – Vocals
• Andy Pratt – Piano
• David Sanborn – Saxophone
• Les Scott – Wind
• Alan Shulman – Steel Guitar
• Billy Slapin – Flute
• G. Diane Sumler – Vocals
• Luther Vandross – Vocals

Technical

• Godfrey Diamond - engineer
• Phil Ramone - recording supervisor
• Glen Christensen - art direction
• Mary Ellen Mark - photography

Notes and References

1. US Albums and Singles Charts > Judy Collins. Billboard. 2022-02-28.