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{{Infobox album
| name = Blessed Are...
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Joan Baez]]
| cover = blessedare.jpg
| alt =
| released = July 31, 1971
| recorded = 1971
| studio = [[Quad Studios Nashville|Quadrafonic Sound]] (Nashville, Tennessee)<ref name="Followed">{{cite web|title=Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City - Part 4: Artists That Followed|url=https://countrymusichalloffame.org/exhibit/dylan-cash-and-the-nashville-cats-a-new-music-city/beyond-the-nashville-skyline/|website=Country Music Hall of Fame|access-date=27 September 2024}}</ref>
| venue =
| genre = {{hlist|[[Folk music|Folk]]|[[country folk]]|[[folk rock]]}}
| length = 78:09
| label = [[Vanguard Records|Vanguard]] <small>VSD-6570/1</small>
| producer = [[Norbert Putnam]]
| prev_title = [[Carry It On]]
| prev_year = 1971
| next_title = [[Come from the Shadows]]
| next_year = 1972
}}
{{Music ratings|rev1= [[Allmusic]] |rev1Score={{Rating|4|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r95911|pure_url=yes}} link]
|rev2=''[[Rolling Stone]]''|rev2Score= (mixed) [https://web.archive.org/web/20071205233632/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/joanbaez/albums/album/146753/review/5944822/blessed_are link]
}}
'''''Blessed Are...''''' is the twelfth studio album (and fourteenth overall) by [[Joan Baez]] and her last with [[Vanguard Records]], released in July 1971. It included her hit cover of [[The Band]]'s "[[The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down]]" and songs by [[Kris Kristofferson]], the [[Beatles]], [[Jesse Winchester]], and [[The Rolling Stones]] as well as a significant number of Baez' own compositions. Like its immediate predecessors, the album was recorded in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] and had a decidedly country feel.

The original vinyl version was released as a double album, which also included a bonus 7" 33 {{fraction|1|3}} rpm record which included the songs "Maria Dolores" and [[Woody Guthrie]]'s "[[Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)|Deportee]]", which she dedicated to the [[farmer]]s of the world, adding "May they soon cease to be victims." On CD pressings, these two tracks are on a separate disc, as the [[Red Book (audio CD format)|Red Book]] standards prohibit fitting them on a single, 80-minute disc.

It was Baez' final studio album for Vanguard, her label of the previous eleven years, as she signed with [[A&M Records|A&M]] in early 1972.

==Track listing==
All tracks composed by Joan Baez; except where indicated

=== Side 1 ===

# "Blessed Are..." – 3:03
# "[[The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down]]" ([[Robbie Robertson]]) – 3:26
# "[[Salt of the Earth (song)|Salt of the Earth]]" ([[Mick Jagger]], [[Keith Richards]]) – 3:22
# "Three Horses" – 7:03
# "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" ([[Jesse Winchester]]) – 3:07

=== Side 2 ===

# "Last, Lonely and Wretched" – 3:42
# "Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave)" (David Patton) – 3:21
# "Outside the Nashville City Limits" – 3:20
# "[[San Francisco Mabel Joy]]" ([[Mickey Newbury]]) – 4:23
# "When Time Is Stolen" – 2:58

=== Side 3 ===

# "[[Heaven Help Us All]]" ([[Ron Miller (songwriter)|Ronald Miller]]) – 3:32
# "Angeline" (Mickey Newbury) – 3:37
# "[[Help Me Make It Through the Night]]" ([[Kris Kristofferson]]) – 2:58
# "[[Let It Be (song)|Let It Be]]" ([[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]]) – 3:48
# "[[Put Your Hand in the Hand]]" ([[Gene MacLellan]]) – 3:20

=== Side 4 ===

# "Gabriel and Me" – 3:27
# "Milanese Waltz/Marie Flore" – 5:55
# "The Hitchhikers' Song" – 4:19
# "The 33rd of August" ([[Mickey Newbury]]) – 3:42
# "Fifteen Months" – 4:30

=== Bonus 7" ===

# "Maria Dolores" (Fernando García Morcillo, Jacobo Morcillo) (track on bonus 7") – 3:25
# "[[Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)]]" ([[Woody Guthrie]], Martin Hoffman) (track on bonus 7") – 5:15
# "Warm and Tender Love" (2005 bonus track) – 4:06

== Personnel ==
* Joan Baez – guitar, vocals
* [[Norman Blake (American musician)|Norman Blake]] – dobro, guitar
* [[David Briggs (American musician)|David Briggs]] – keyboards
* [[Kenneth A. Buttrey]] – drums
* [[Charlie McCoy]] – harmonica
* [[Norbert Putnam]] – bass, arranger, producer
* [[Buddy Spicher]] – violin
* [[Pete Wade]] – guitar
* Ed Logan – tenor saxophone
* The Holladays – singers
;Technical
* Gene Eichelberger – engineer
* Dave Harris – artwork
* [[Jobriath]] – design
* Jack Lothrop – producer
* [[Jim Marshall (photographer)|Jim Marshall]] – photography

==Chart positions==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
!Chart (1971)
!Peak<br>position
|-
{{album chart|Canada|12|artist=Joan Baez|chartid=7518 |rowheader=true}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|11|artist=Joan Baez|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{album chart|Norway|26|artist=Joan Baez|album=Blessed Are...|rowheader=true|access-date=7 March 2025}}
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name="Kent">{{cite book | title = Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 | last = Kent | first = David | author-link = David Kent (historian) | edition = illustrated | publisher = Australian Chart Book | location = St Ives, N.S.W. | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 36
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Blessed Are''}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|title=Blessed Are|artist=Joan Baez|award=Gold|relyear=1971|certyear=1972|access-date=September 14, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Joan Baez}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:1971 albums]]
[[Category:Joan Baez albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Maynard Solomon]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Norbert Putnam]]
[[Category:Vanguard Records albums]]

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