Where Are You Now, My Son?

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Where Are You Now, My Son?
Studio album by Joan Baez

Publication
(s)

1973

Label (s) AT THE

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Folk

Title (number)

8th

running time

44:42

occupation Joan Baez

production

Joan Baez, Norbert Putnam, Henry Lewy

Studio (s)

Hanoi: 18.-27. December 1972, Nashville: January 1973

chronology
Come from the Shadows
(1972) 		Where Are You Now, My Son? Gracias A la Vida
(1974)

Where Are You Now, My Son? is the title of a music album by Joan Baez from 1973. The poem of the same name contained on it is with a duration of 21 minutes the longest single track among all songs published by Baez to date.

Content and background

Joan Baez was involved in numerous protest marches and other political actions against the Vietnam War. In 1972 she traveled to North Vietnam with a delegation from the peace movement over the Christmas period . There she was surprised by the US military operation Operation Linebacker II (also known as Christmas Bombings ), in which the US Air Force massively bombed Hanoi for twelve days . The poem Where Are You Now, My Son? , which is accompanied by live tape recordings of the event, gives Baez 'impressions of the bombings in Hanoi. In addition to Joan Baez, Barry Romo, Michael Allen and the human rights lawyer Telford Taylor can be heard, with whom Baez visited North Vietnam.

From the text of the album cover:
"... The war in Indochina is not yet over, and the war against violence has barely begun ...." (freely translated: "... The war in Indochina is not over yet, and the war against violence has only just begun… ”) - Joan Baez

The tracks on the other side of the record, written by Baez, Mimi Fariña and Hoyt Axton , were recorded in January 1973 in Nashville .

Track list

  1. Only Heaven Knows
  2. Less Than the Song (Hoyt Axton)
  3. A Young Gypsy
  4. Mary Call (Mimi Fariña)
  5. Rider, Pass By
  6. Best of Friends (Mimi Fariña)
  7. Compass rose
  8. Where Are You Now, My Son?

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Margara : Where Joan Baez started against US bombs SPIEGEL ONLINE (accessed December 19, 2016)
  2. ↑ Text of the title Where Are You Now, My Son? , online at www.golyr.de (accessed December 19, 2016)