An upcoming reissue of Joan Baez's 1992 album, Play Me Backwards, will include a previously unreleased demo cover version of Bob Dylan's "Seven Curses". Baez released a live take of the song on her 2005 album, Bowery Songs (recorded in 2004).
According to a post on Joan Baez's official website, Proper Records will release the newly re-mastered and expanded CD edition of the album on March 14. The CD will feature new cover artwork, and "will be released only in the United Kingdom and European territories".
There will also be a worldwide release on vinyl through the Diverse Records label. Their website states the release will be a "180G Double LP, gatefold sleeve," however, it currently only lists the original 11 tracks from the 1992 release. The length of the original album is just over 36 minutes and should easily fit on one LP. Presumably, the ten demos will comprise the second disc.
As with many other Baez releases, the reissue of Play Me Backwards will feature new liner notes by Arthur Levy.
Play Me Backwards (J. Baez, W. Wilson, K. Greenberg, K. O'Connor)
Amsterdam (Janis Ian, B. Mondlock)
Isaac & Abraham (J. Baez, W. Wilson, K. Greenberg)
Stones In The Road (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
Steal Across The Border (Ron Davies)
I'm With You / Reprise (J. Baez, W. Wilson, K. Greenberg, P. Bunch)
Strange Rivers (John Stewart)
Through Your Hands (John Hiatt)
The Dream Song (J. Baez, R. Davies)
Edge Of Glory (J. Baez, W. Wilson, K. Greenberg, K. O'Connor)
Bonus demo track listing:
Medicine Wheel • Rise From The Ruins • Trouble With The Truth • Much Better View Of The Moon • Seven Curses • In My Day • Dark Eyed Man • We Endure • The Last Day • Lonely Moon
Original release date: October 1992
Produced by: Wally Wilson and Kenny Greenberg
Album cover design by: Tom Dolan
Album cover art direction by: Mick Haggerty
Album cover photography by: Melanie Nissen
Additional musicians and vocalists: Greg Barnhill, Richard Bennett, Ashley Cleveland, Chad Cromwell, Jerry Douglas, Carl Gorodetzky, Kenny Greenberg, Vicki Hampton, Mike Lawler, Bob Mason, Edgar Meyer, Jonell Mosser, Steve Nathan, Cyndi Richardson, Tom Roady, Chris Rodriguez, Pam Sixfin, James Stroud, Marcos Suzano, Willie Weeks, Kristen Wilkenson, Wally Wilson, Glen Worf
Issued on cassette tape: Virgin Records 86458-4
Issued on CD: Virgin Records 86458-2
Re-issued in 1996 on CD: Guardian Records 54615
This was Baez's first album recorded in Nashville since 1972's Come from the Shadows. Baez made her first music video for the Mary Chapin Carpenter song, "Stones in the Road."
The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.
For an extensive list of Dylan covers performed by Baez, please visit Dylan Cover.
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