Speaking of Dreams
Speaking of Dreams is a 1989 album by Joan Baez that mixed personal compositions like the title song with political statements like "China", which was inspired by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. (Baez also dedicated the album to the students of Tiananmen Square who "nonviolently, and at an enormous price, have changed the face of China forever.") The album featured collaborations with Paul Simon, Jackson Browne and the Gipsy Kings, and marked the beginning of a period where Baez notes she put her music ahead of the political activism that had preoccupied her for much of the prior decade.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    |
| Speaking of Dreams | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | November 1989 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Gold Castle | |||
| Producer | Alan Abrahams | |||
| Joan Baez chronology | ||||
| ||||
Track listing
- "China" (Joan Baez)
- "Warriors of the Sun" (Baez)
- "Carrickfergus" (traditional, Alan Connaught)
- "Hand to Mouth" (George Michael)
- "Speaking of Dreams" (Baez)
- "El Salvador" (Gregory Copeland) (duet with Jackson Browne)
- "Rambler Gambler/Whispering Bells" (traditional, Fred Lowry, Clarence Quick) (duet with Paul Simon)
- "Fairfax County" (David Massengill)
- "A Mi Manera (My Way)" (Claude François/ Jacques Revaux/ Gilles Thibaut/ engl. Paul Anka) (with the Gipsy Kings)
gollark: Just set the, er, allowed mentions flags?
gollark: Does it have perms for that?
gollark: You utter appioform.
gollark: Why even do that? Just iterate from the front and back or something. Although, hmm, that would be slower on UTF-8 strings, the best ones.
gollark: You utter ontology.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.