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Why this album mattered
Blessed Are ... (1971) is a Joan Baez album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 23 tracks on this release. It reached #11 and charted for 23 weeks. Major singles from the album include "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".
The music
- 1
Gabriel And Me
2 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- 3
Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave)
- 4
Put Your Hand In The Hand
- 5
Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)
6 Let It Be
- 7
Warm And Tender Love
- 8
San Francisco Mabel Joy
- 9
Fifteen Months
- 10
The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
- 11
When Time Is Stolen
- 12
The Salt Of The Earth
- 13
Maria Dolores
- 14
Heaven Help Us All
- 15
Blessed Are
- 16
Three Horses
- 17
Milanese Waltz/Marie Flore
- 18
The Hitchhikers' Song
- 19
Angeline
- 20
Outside The Nashville City Limits
- 21
Last, Lonely And Wretched
- 22
The 33rd Of August
- 23
Help Me Make It Through The Night
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- Sep 18, 1971#178
- Sep 25#45
- Oct 2#19
- Oct 9#13
- Oct 16#12
- Oct 23#11
- Oct 30#11
- Nov 6#12
- Nov 13#13
- Nov 20#23
- Nov 27#30
- Dec 4#36
- Dec 11#47
- Dec 18#57
- Dec 25#58
- 1972
- Jan 1, 1972#58
- Jan 8#57
- Jan 15#62
- Jan 22#62
- Jan 29#76
- Feb 5#97
- Feb 12#116
- Feb 19#148
A rocket up the chart — jumping 133 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #178, exploded upward for 6 weeks to reach #11 and fell quickly across 23 weeks on the chart.
The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
