Bread and Roses (album)

Bread and Roses
Studio album by Judy Collins
Released	November 1976
Recorded	1976
Genre	Folk
Label	Elektra
Producer	Arif Mardin
Judy Collins chronology
Judith (1975) Bread and Roses (1976) So Early in the Spring (1977)

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Bread and Roses was a 1976 album by Judy Collins that attempted to merge the singer's political convictions with the commercial success of the previous year's Judith. Political statements like the title song, originally a poem by James Oppenheim commonly associated with a 1912 garment workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, were balanced with such pop compositions as Elton John's "Come Down in Time", but the album failed to achieve the commercial success of Judith.

Released as the single from the album was "Special Delivery" by Billy Mernit.

Singer Luther Vandross sang background on this album, one of his earliest commercially recorded vocal performances.

Track listing

1. "Bread and Roses" (Mimi Fariña, James Oppenheim) – 3:05
2. "Everything Must Change" (Benard Ighner) – 4:25
3. "Special Delivery" (Billy Mernit) – 3:55
4. "Out of Control" (Judy Collins) – 3:00
5. "Plegaria a un Labrador (Prayer to a Laborer)" (Víctor Jara) – 4:04
6. "Come Down in Time" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) – 3:23
7. "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" (Charles Badger Clark, Billy Simon) – 4:32
8. "I Didn't Know About You" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 3:29
9. "Take This Longing" (Leonard Cohen) – 5:25
10. "Love Hurts" (Andrew Gold) – 3:17
11. "Marjorie" (Judy Collins) – 0:43
12. "King David" (Walter De La Mare, Herbert Howells) – 4:27

Personnel

• Judy Collins - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
• Gloria Agostini – Harp
• Rubens Bassini – Percussion
• Sy Berger – Trombone
• Jay Berliner – Guitar
• Kenneth Bichel – Synthesizer
• Don Brooks – Harmonica
• Robin Clark – Vocals
• Dom Cortese – Accordion
• Richard Davis – Bass
• Godfrey Diamond – Engineer
• Erin Dickins – Vocals
• Mark Doyle – Guitar
• Steve Gadd – Drums
• Mickey Gravine – Trombone
• Urbie Green – Trombone
• Corky Hale – Harmonica
• Hank Jones – Piano
• Gail Kantor – Vocals
• Tony Levin – Bass
• George Marge – Horn
• Charles McCracken – Cello
• Hugh McCracken – Guitar
• Merle Miller – Vocals
• Andy Pratt – Piano
• David Sanborn – Saxophone
• Les Scott – Wind
• Alan Shulman – Steel Guitar
• Billy Slapin – Flute
• G. Diane Sumler – Vocals
• Luther Vandross – Vocals

References

1. Bread and Roses (album) at AllMusic