Where Are You Now, My Son? Explained

Where Are You Now, My Son?
Type:studio
Artist:Joan Baez
Cover:File:JBaez_NowMySon.jpg
Released:March 1973
Recorded:Hanoi, Vietnam: December 18–27, 1972; Nashville: January 1973
Genre:Folk
Label:A&M
Producer:Joan Baez, Norbert Putnam, Henry Lewy
Prev Title:Come from the Shadows
Prev Year:1972
Next Title:Gracias A la Vida
Next Year:1974

Where Are You Now, My Son? is the fourteenth studio album (and sixteenth overall) by Joan Baez, released in 1973.[1] [2] One side of the album featured recordings Baez made during a US bombing raid on Hanoi over Christmas 1972.[3] Included on the recording are the voices of Barry Romo, Michael Allen and human rights attorney Telford Taylor, with whom Baez made her famous 1972 visit to North Vietnam.

Joan also recorded a version of this song in which her spoken words and lyrics were in French. The French version was included in an album published in 1974 with the title bien sûr la guerre est finie. The rest of the songs are the same as those on the English language versions.

The album's other side, featuring songs written by Baez, Mimi Fariña, and Hoyt Axton, was recorded in Nashville in January 1973.

From the album's liner notes:

Critical reception

AllMusic called "A Young Gypsy" "one of Baez's best original songs."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joan Baez, except where indicated.

  1. "Only Heaven Knows" - 2:35
  2. "Less Than the Song" (Hoyt Axton) - 3:27
  3. "A Young Gypsy" - 3:36
  4. "Mary Call" (Mimi Fariña) - 3:34
  5. "Rider, Pass By" - 4:13
  6. "Best of Friends" (Mimi Fariña) - 3:03
  7. "Windrose" - 3:42 (On 1980 stereo vinyl reissue by Pickwick Records SPC-3748, this track is excluded)
  8. "Where Are You Now, My Son?" - 21:42

Personnel

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Joan Baez | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  2. Book: Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges. Steven. Southwick. Dennis. Charney. April 30, 2018. Cambridge University Press. 9781108626026. Google Books.
  3. Joan Baez returns to Vietnam after 41 years. Why?. April 10, 2013. Christian Science Monitor.
  4. Joan Baez. Billboard.