She had contemplated recording it for many years. On it Collins sings Mitchell’s “The River,” and her own “Mountain Girl,” and “Highwayman,” Jimmy Webb’s song about a man who is reincarnated as a thief, a sailor, a dam builder and a starship captain, which was later covered by Glen Campbell and then the country supergroup the Highwaymen. It’s a hygge folk collection, perfect for curling up with three cats, but it also holds unexpected emotional power.

29, is a collaboration with the Norwegian singer Jonas Fjeld and the bluegrass band Chatham County Line.

And I think that’s how a great singer is a great singer - by acting the story of the song.”Ĭollins’s latest album, “Winter Stories,” out Nov. Listening to her music as a child, Bond was struck by her interpretive skill, by “her sense of how to sing a song,” Bond said. This fall, the artist Justin Vivian Bond performed a tribute to Collins at Joe’s Pub, singing songs from writers that Collins had surfaced. I don’t know why I seem to be able to do it, but I do, and I think people are pleasured by it.” “I don’t question that I can make a sentence mean anything I want it to as long as I know what it is I want to say. “I feel as though my voice is capable of doing anything,” she told Life in 1969. Folk singers used to be called “collectors” of songs, and Collins is a master collector. “The first time he sang that to me, I said, ‘You know, it’s a beautiful song, but it’s not going to get me back,'” Collins told the crowd after the performance.The art of singing other people’s songs is not fully appreciated beyond the cabaret circuit, or maybe it’s a little bit lost. Stephen Stills wrote “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” for Collins as their relationship was falling apart in the late Sixties. With an all-star backing band that included Janet Weiss, Jason Isbell, Benmont Tench, John Stirratt and Chris Funk, the trio worked their way through the song’s intricate three-part harmonies and various musical changes before, two-thirds of the way through, Judy Collins, the song’s inspiration, joined them onstage, adding vocals and guitar. Dolly Parton’s surprise appearance may have grabbed most of the headlines during this past summer’s Newport Folk Festival, but one of the weekend’s most exciting moments came during the Sunday evening closing set when Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, the Shins’ James Mercer and Eric Johnson (Fruit Bats) offered a note-by-note rendition of “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1969 classic.

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