Judy Collins - In My Life
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Artist: Judy CollinsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-07-27
Music Label: Collector's Choice
Soundtracks:
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- Hard Lovin' Loser
- Pirate Jenny
- Suzanne
- La Colombe
- Marat/Sade
- I Think It's Going to Rain Today
- Sunny Goodge Street
- Liverpool Lullaby
- Dress Rehearsal Rag
- In My Life
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Music Review: One of folk music's greatest voices expands her horizons in 1966
Rating: 4 Stars
After five folk albums, culminating in the superb Fifth Album in 1965, Judy Collins sought personal growth as an artist and broader synergy with the musical scenes developing around her. She'd already branched out from the traditional material of 1961's A Maid of Constant Sorrow and 1962's Golden Apples of the Sun (available as a two-fer) to contemporary material penned by Dylan, Seeger, Paxton, Ochs and Farina, but she'd kept to a traditional acoustic guitar and string bass approach. With this 1966 release she stretched even further for new material, adding pop songs and show tunes, while still championing newly emerging talents that included Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman and Donovan. She once again proved herself a unique interpreter of Dylan, singing the melody of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" with ease rather than haggard exhalation. Similarly, on "Suzanne" her voice adds delicacy and range that were beyond Cohen's instrument, and gave the poet his break as a songwriter.
The arrangements push past the minimalism of her earlier albums with Joshua Rifkin-penned chamber-pop arrangements that add strings, woodwinds, percussion and harpsichord. This suits both the range of material as well as the moods Collins evokes as she extrapolates her interpretation into acting. Her readings of Brecht and Weill's "Pirate Jenny" and Peaslee's "Marat/Sade" are pitched to reach the last row and befit their stage origins, and Rifkin's arrangement of guitar and violin provides dramatic backing for Jacques Brel's dire "La Colombe." Harp, bells and waltz time whirl Donovan's "Sunny Goodge Street" nearly into carousel music, and now in retrospect, the closing cover of "In My Life" provides a bittersweet tribute to its author. Collectors' Choice's 2010 release is a straight-up reissue of the album's original eleven tracks, with new liner notes by Richie Unterberger. [©2010 hyperbolium dot com]
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Description of In My Life
A landmark album by any yardstick, 1966 s In My Life saw Judy make a bold leap from the folk-grounded arrangements and material of her previous work into a combination of folk, classical, pop, rock and art song that was dubbed as 'baroque folk.' In addition to the first appearances of Leonard Cohen songs on any release, this groundbreaking LP (#46 on the charts) includes distinguished covers of compositions by Bob Dylan, Donovan, Jacques Brel, the Beatles, Richard Fariña and a then-unknown Randy Newman. A masterpiece!Folk CDs
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