Play Me Backwards | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | October 1992 | |||
Recorded | Nashville, 1992 | |||
Genre | Folk-pop, country pop | |||
Length | 36:19 | |||
Label | Virgin [1] | |||
Producer | Wally Wilson, Kenny Greenberg | |||
Joan Baez chronology | ||||
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Play Me Backwards is an album by the American musician Joan Baez, released in 1992. [2] The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. [3] Baez supported it with an international tour. [4]
In 2011, Play Me Backwards was reissued on CD with a bonus disc of 10 previously unreleased tracks, including " The Trouble with the Truth", "Medicine Wheel" and a cover of Bob Dylan's " Seven Curses". [5]
Recorded in Nashville, the album was produced by Wally Wilson and Kenny Greenberg. [6] [7] Baez sought out material after being dismayed with the songs pitched to her; she spent 14 months trying to find the right songs. [8] [9] The album's first single, "Stones in the Road", for which Baez shot a video, was written by Mary Chapin Carpenter. [10] [11] [12] "Through Your Hands" was written by John Hiatt. [13] "I'm with You" is about Baez's son, Gabriel. [14]
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Source | Rating |
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The Boston Globe called Play Me Backwards "mostly an album of mature, surprisingly percussive folk-pop love songs that marks her finest work since her Diamonds and Rust album of 1975." [18] The Sun-Sentinel wrote that "Baez's erstwhile hyper-quivering soprano thankfully does not flutter so much, and has deepened marvelously with age." [7]
The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "a surprisingly relaxed, rhythmic and modern set that sounds like it could have been recorded by any one of a number of today's folk-and country-flavored pop female singer-songwriters." [19] The Indianapolis Star noted that "Baez's voice sounds as pure as ever." [16]
All tracks composed by Joan Baez, Wally Wilson and Kenny Greenberg, except where indicated.
Play Me Backwards | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | October 1992 | |||
Recorded | Nashville, 1992 | |||
Genre | Folk-pop, country pop | |||
Length | 36:19 | |||
Label | Virgin [1] | |||
Producer | Wally Wilson, Kenny Greenberg | |||
Joan Baez chronology | ||||
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Play Me Backwards is an album by the American musician Joan Baez, released in 1992. [2] The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. [3] Baez supported it with an international tour. [4]
In 2011, Play Me Backwards was reissued on CD with a bonus disc of 10 previously unreleased tracks, including " The Trouble with the Truth", "Medicine Wheel" and a cover of Bob Dylan's " Seven Curses". [5]
Recorded in Nashville, the album was produced by Wally Wilson and Kenny Greenberg. [6] [7] Baez sought out material after being dismayed with the songs pitched to her; she spent 14 months trying to find the right songs. [8] [9] The album's first single, "Stones in the Road", for which Baez shot a video, was written by Mary Chapin Carpenter. [10] [11] [12] "Through Your Hands" was written by John Hiatt. [13] "I'm with You" is about Baez's son, Gabriel. [14]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Indianapolis Star | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Rolling Stone | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Boston Globe called Play Me Backwards "mostly an album of mature, surprisingly percussive folk-pop love songs that marks her finest work since her Diamonds and Rust album of 1975." [18] The Sun-Sentinel wrote that "Baez's erstwhile hyper-quivering soprano thankfully does not flutter so much, and has deepened marvelously with age." [7]
The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "a surprisingly relaxed, rhythmic and modern set that sounds like it could have been recorded by any one of a number of today's folk-and country-flavored pop female singer-songwriters." [19] The Indianapolis Star noted that "Baez's voice sounds as pure as ever." [16]
All tracks composed by Joan Baez, Wally Wilson and Kenny Greenberg, except where indicated.