{"id":14879,"date":"2021-03-19T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=14879"},"modified":"2021-03-19T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:32:11","slug":"folk-legend-judy-collins-releases-new-single-announces-collection-of-hand-picked-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/03\/19\/folk-legend-judy-collins-releases-new-single-announces-collection-of-hand-picked-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk Legend JUDY COLLINS Releases New Single, Announces Collection Of Hand-Picked Favorites!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you\u2019ve been making music for as long as folk music icon Judy Collins, songs become more than just familiar melodies, they\u2019re treasured memories connecting you to people and places of your past. For her newest collection of recent recordings,\u00a0White Bird – Anthology Of Favorites<\/em>, Collins has hand-selected a number of songs that remain dear to her heart so much so that she can still remember exactly where she was the first time she heard them. Take for instance, this story Collins shares about one of her best-known, most beloved songs, \u201cIt was 1967 when I received a phone call at three in the morning from Al Cooper, the founder of Blood Sweat & Tears. He said he followed this girl home from a bar where she had told him she was a songwriter. She played him some of her songs and after she played him one particular song, he picked up the phone and called me. He put the girl on the phone and Joni Mitchell sang me her great song\u00a0\u2018Both Sides Now.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Or this story about another young songwriter, \u201cIn 1966 I was getting ready to make my sixth album,\u00a0In My Life<\/em>. Someone sent me a song called \u2018I Think It\u2019s Going To Rain Today\u2019 by Randy Newman. I never heard of this guy but loved the song. Randy had not started thinking of himself as a singer-songwriter but after I recorded this song, he put out his own version and became the gold standard. He has told me I started his career but I’m sure he would’ve done it without me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Judy Collins has inspired countless artists, including Rock Hall of Famer Stephen Stills. Not only was she the muse that led Stills to write the Crosby, Stills & Nash classic \u201cSuite: Judy Blue Eyes\u201d but the pair\u2019s musical romance was so strong that it was rekindled decades later in 2015 for a recording of Tom Paxton\u2019s \u201cThe Last Thing On My Mind.\u201d Collins shares, \u201cI would run into Tom on the street in Greenwich village in the early \u201860s and he would say I just wrote this song would you like to sing it. It became a favorite song of mine and also of Stephen Stills. So, 40 years after our love affair, and a couple of years before our extraordinary reunion of concerts, Stephen and I recorded the song together. So thanks to Tom Paxton and thanks to you, Stephen. It\u2019s been a long and rewarding love affair and friendship.\u201d
And Collins is still finding new loves and friendships along the way, including a little-known gem from 1969 San Francisco. Hippie rock group It\u2019s A Beautiful Day first recorded the song that gives Collins\u2019s collection its name, \u201cWhite Bird,\u201d but just as it is with all of the songs Collins touches, she makes it sound like she wrote it or maybe even inspired it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Stream the single \u201cWhite Bird\u201d:<\/strong>https:\/\/orcd.co\/judy_collins_white_bird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


White Bird – Anthology Of Favorites<\/em>\u00a0will be released on digital, on CD in a deluxe digipak and on limited edition WHITE vinyl starting May 7 from Wildflower Records, exclusively distributed by Cleopatra Records.
To purchase the album:<\/strong>https:\/\/orcd.co\/judy_collins_white_bird_anthology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Track List:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. White Bird<\/li>
  2. Chelsea Morning<\/li>
  3. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)<\/li>
  4. Pack Up Your Sorrows<\/li>
  5. When I Go feat. Willie Nelson<\/li>
  6. I Think It\u2019s Going To Rain Today<\/li>
  7. Last Thing On My Mind feat. Stephen Stills<\/li>
  8. Blackbird<\/li>
  9. Both Sides Now<\/li>
  10. Diamonds & Rust feat. Joan Baez<\/li>
  11. Send In The Clowns<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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