Blowin' in the Wind both Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, brought the trio the song which they promptly recorded (on a single take) and released. The trio's version, which was the title track of their third album, peaked at number 2 on the "Billboard" charts. The group's version also went to number one on the Middle-Road charts for five weeks. "How many words can be written on a page, before they begin to bleed? How many books can one man own, before he has learned to read? How many meanings can he give to a phrase, before, from his lexicon he's freed?" Blowin'
Blowin' Away they all stand in the nineteen-seventies." Baez wrote "Altar Boy and the Thief" as a tribute to her gay fanbase. In her autobiography, "And a Voice to Sing With", Baez described "Blowin' Away" as "a good album with a terrible cover". All tracks composed by Joan Baez; except where indicated Blowin' Away Blowin' Away was a 1977 album by Joan Baez, her first after switching from A&M Records to Portrait Records (a then newly created division of CBS Records). The album veered more toward mainstream pop than any album Baez had recorded up to that point, though many critics at