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Bread and Roses (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Bread and Roses

| type = studio album

| artist = Judy Collins

| cover = Judybread.jpg

| alt =

| released = August 1976

| recorded = 1976

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Folk

| length =

| label = Elektra

| producer = Arif Mardin

| prev_title = Judith

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = So Early in the Spring

| next_year = 1977

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/bread-roses-mw0000202770|title=Bread & Roses Review|last=Chrispell|first=James|website=AllMusic|access-date=December 8, 2024}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|first=Colin|last=Larkin|author-link=Colin Larkin|chapter=Collins, Judy|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0000unse_v3u2/page/338/mode/2up|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|location=New York|publisher=Muze UK Ltd.|year=2007|edition=5th Concise|pages=338–339|isbn=978-1-84609-856-7}}

| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev4score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Evans|chapter=Judy Collins|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonealbu0000unse/page/154/mode/2up|title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews: Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist|editor-last1=DeCurtis|editor-first1=Anthony|editor-link1=Anthony DeCurtis|editor-first2=James|editor-last2=Henke|editor-first3=Holly|editor-last3=George-Warren|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Random House|year=1992|page=154|isbn=0-679-73729-4}}

}}

Bread and Roses is the eleventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1976. The album peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/judy-collins/|title=US Albums and Singles Charts > Judy Collins|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2022-02-28}}

Merging 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".

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

Note: In a detailed writeup of the "King David" session, Modern Recording magazine lists instrumentation and shows the un-named personnel: eight cellos, two basses, two harps, flute—conducted by arranger Jonathan Tunick.Solomon, Veda Nu. "A Session with Judy Collins." Modern Recording 2:1 (October–November 1976), 38-40, 42, 44.

;Technical

  • Godfrey Diamond – Engineer
  • Phil Ramone – Recording supervisor
  • Glen Christensen – Art direction
  • Mary Ellen Mark – Photography

Charts

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|+ Chart performance for Bread and Roses

! scope="col"| Chart (1976)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

scope="row"| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report){{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W |year=1993|page=69|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}

| 96

scope="row"| US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard){{cite magazine|date=October 16, 1976|title=Billboard Top LPs & Tape|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1976/Billboard%201976-10-16.pdf#page=70|magazine=Billboard|location=New York|publisher=Billboard Publications Inc|volume=81|issue=9|page=86|issn=0006-2510}}

| 25

scope="row"| US Top 100 Albums (Cash Box){{cite magazine|date=October 16, 1976|title=Cash Box Top 100 Albums|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1976/Cash-Box-1976-10-16.pdf#page=57|magazine=Cash Box|location=New York|publisher=The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc.|volume=XXXVIII|issue=22|page=57|issn=0008-7289}}

| 38

scope="row" | US The Album Chart (Record World){{cite magazine|date=October 9, 1976|title=The Album Chart|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/76/Record-World-1976-10-09.pdf#page=42|magazine=Record World|location=New York|publisher=Record World Pub. Co.|volume=33|issue=1528|page=42|issn=0034-1622}}

| 48

References

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External links

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Category:1976 albums

Category:Judy Collins albums

Category:Albums produced by Arif Mardin

Category:Elektra Records albums