Judy Collins - Very Best of
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Artist: Judy CollinsBrand: COLLINS,JUDY
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-08-21
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Turn! Turn! Turn!/To Everything There Is a Season
- So Early, Early in the Spring
- Suzanne
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- Both Sides Now
- Since You've Asked
- Albatross
- My Father
- Someday Soon
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes
- Chelsea Morning (single version)
- Farewell to Tarwathie
- Song for Judith (Open the Door)
- Cook with Honey
- Send in the Clowns
- Amazing Grace
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Music Review: Takes us back in time, to the peak of Judy Collins' career
Rating: 5 Stars
Judy Collins was not the most profound of the female folk singers of the 1960s and 1970s. She may not have had the greatest voice. But she had a wonderful folk sensibility and could make songs her own. And her voice at its height was a thing of beauty. This CD provides her greatest hits, most appearing in a rather short time horizon.
A few illustrative cuts.
This work starts with Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn," based on "Ecclesiastes." Her smooth, lovely voice is enchanting to listen to. There is simple accompaniment, with Collins on acoustic guitar, Jim McGuinn on 12 string acoustic guitar, and Bill Takas on upright bass. This is a wonderfully musical version of Seeger's song.
Then, one of Leonard Cohen's more evocative songs, "Suzanne." One key line:
"I know she's half crazy
And that's why you want to be there."
Collins' voice works well with this song. Cohen's lyrics are provocative.
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues." I think that this is one of Bob Dylan's less appreciated classics. What a series of images and emotions spill forth from the lyrics and music! Judy Collins' voice is almost too pretty and sweet for this song, but that itself makes this an interesting and intriguing interpretation. An early line setting a tone to this piece:
"When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Easter time, too.
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through."
Listen to Dylan sing this--and then Collins. Almost like two different songs! I have always wondered at the line when Sweet Melinda "leaves you howling at the moon." Collins' version is an alternative and interesting take on this classic Dylan work.
Then, Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." Mitchell's version has a deeper sense to it, but Collins' is, perhaps, more musical. Some wonderful lines:
"Flows and flows of angel hair,
And ice cream castles in the air.
And feathered canyons everywhere,
I've looked at clouds that way."
Another classic line:
"It's love's illusions I recall,
I really don't know love at all."
This is a fine version of Mitchell's classic. I'd probably pick Mitchell's version, but Judy Collins does make this her own, and there's something to be said for that.
"Farewell to Tarwathie." What can you say about a song when humpback whales are part of the musical backing! Quite appropriate for a song about whaling. Well sung--haunting and poignant.
Then, her a capella version of "Amazing Grace." A fine listen! One of Collins' signature songs.
Judy Collins was not the greatest of folk singers of her time. But she did cut out a very nice niche for herself, and this CD shows us why. On the merits, this might be 4 stars, but this captures a special time for me, so my background leads me to give this 5 stars, for the memories of the time that this conjures up.
Description of Very Best of
This definitive 16-track collection gathers signature singles and album cuts from her nine Elektra albums spanning 1964 to 1975. Co-produced by Judy Collins and featuring backing performances by Stephen Stills, Van Dyke Parks, Ray Baretto, and more.Country CDs
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