Play Me Backwards
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| Play Me Backwards | ||||
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| Released | October 1992 | |||
| Recorded | Nashville, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Folk-pop, country pop | |||
| Length | 36:19 | |||
| Label | Virgin[1] | |||
| Producer | Wally Wilson, Kenny Greenberg | |||
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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]
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [15] |
| The Indianapolis Star | [16] |
| Rolling Stone | [17] |
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]
