Any takers for "The Fifth Album"? or the "Recollections" compilation of the early troubadour material? That's how I like her the best.However cheesy "Hard Times For Lovers" has a place in my heart.-
I think the fifth album by Judy and the Judy Collins concert(her forth album) are incredible. I also love "Maids of Constant Sorrow" , "Golden Apples of the Sun" and "#3". Who needs "Recollections" if you're a big Judy fan and you have everything form the "fifth album" and prior. It is a very nice little greatest hits package though. I know all these early songs by heart. great songs to sing while working in the yard.
Small story:
Soon after Judy's son committed suicide she performed the most emotional concert tour I have ever been to(I have seen over 200 different people in concert from classical, jazz, folk, rock,etc...).I have seen many performers from the singer/songwriter era (which tend to aim a lot for the emotional buttons within people through their music).
Nothing has ever compared!!!She performed so many sad song and hopeful song, and most of her own composition. 2 Mitchell song, 2 Cohen's songs(Song for Bernadette-WOW) etc.. She did away with a lot of the stuff she typically sings that I don't think she does a good job with anyways(City of New Orleans, Desperado). These are good songs but other people do them better. Anyways, just before the encore I went up and gave her some flowers and asked her to sing "Winter Sky" (a Billy Ed Wheeler song she did in the early 60's). She came back out and told the audience that I had asked her to do a song that she loved but had forgotten about for many years.
I guess she just felt the song was appropriate for her current emotional state and so she sang it acapella and then went right into Amazing Grace. The people in this concert where very teary eyed and some people were just on the verge of sobbing. I had never seen anything like it. I ran into Judy several years later at a book signing and waited last to speak with her. I asked her about that night and she remembered being asked to sing the song and said "you were the guy who brought me the flowers?!?"(I hadn't even mentioned the flowers). She stated she really felt something cooking inside of her that night . It all came out. The big purge! I'm a softy but I don't let on to that, and my eyes were pretty watery. My friend and eye discuss this concert all the time. I went with the lady who had introduced me to Judy a couple of decades earlier. It made it so much more significant.
Will
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