| Recently | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Joan Baez |
| Cover: | BaezRecently.jpg |
| Released: | July 1987 |
| Recorded: | Capitol (Hollywood) |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Length: | 38:38 |
| Label: | Gold Castle |
| Producer: | Alan Abrahams |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
Recently is a studio album by the American musician Joan Baez, released in 1987.[1] [2] It was her first album of new material issued in the US in eight years.[3]
Baez covered Mark Knopfler, U2, Peter Gabriel, and Johnny Clegg.[4] Baez wrote two of the album's songs.[5]
The track "Asimbonanga" was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Folk Recording".[6]
Newsday wrote that Baez's "airy soprano is a bit more brittle and edgy these days, but still buoyant."[7] The St. Petersburg Times determined that "Baez's singing, D strong as ever after spending the last six years in voice training, still soars and flutters, but it's more earthy, more soulful."[8]