| Honest Lullaby | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Joan Baez |
| Cover: | HonestLullaby.jpg |
| Released: | July 1979 |
| Recorded: | 1979 |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Label: | Portrait |
| Producer: | Barry Beckett |
| Prev Title: | The Joan Baez Country Music Album |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Live Europe '83 |
| Next Year: | 1984 |
Honest Lullaby is a studio album by the American musician Joan Baez, released in 1979.[1] It was her final album on CBS Records' Portrait imprint; it also stood as her last studio album issued in the U.S. until the release of her 1987 album, Recently.
The autobiographical title song was written for her son, Gabriel Harris.[2] It was performed on The Muppet Show in 1980. In addition to her own compositions, the album contained work by Janis Ian and Jackson Browne. "Let Your Love Flow" was originally a 1976 hit for the Bellamy Brothers. In her 1987 memoir, And a Voice to Sing With, Baez speculated that she was likely dropped from CBS due to a political disagreement she'd had with the label's then-president.
Baez dedicated the album to the memory of journalist John L. Wasserman. (Wasserman, who had died the previous February, had written the liner notes to Baez's 1977 compilation, The Best of Joan C. Baez).
The cover photos were taken by photographer Yousuf Karsh.