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David's Album was a 1969 album by Joan Baez, recorded in Nashville. It was Baez' eleventh album to date. Her then husband, David Harris, a country music fan, was about to be imprisoned for draft resistance, and she recorded the album as a gift to him.

Cover sketch is a drawing of David Harris by Joan Baez.

The Vanguard reissue contains two previously unreleased tracks, "How Can I Miss You", a duet with Baez' sister Mimi Fariña, and Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind."

Track listing

  1. "If I Knew" (Nina Dusheck, Pauline Marden)
  2. "Rock Salt and Nails" (Bruce Phillips)
  3. "Glad Bluebird of Happiness" (Darryl Skrabak)
  4. "Green Green Grass Of Home (Curly Putman)
  5. "Will the Circle be Unbroken" (traditional)
  6. "The Tramp on the Street" (traditional)
  7. "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" (traditional)
  8. "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" (traditional)
  9. "Hickory Wind" (Gram Parsons)
  10. "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" (A.P. Carter, Tom Ashley)