[The Antiyuppie]

...and even a few years ago, she STILL sounded pretty darned good.

[ottbmare]

I agree that this was and is a performance of the most exquisite beauty.

[Fungi]

Just listened to it for the first time, a beautiful song. When I was in college a professor of mine played us a recorded song of the humpbacks and said this would be the last time you will ever hear this as the whale is almost extinct. Not true, it is doing very well now. Little did I know in my naive mind this guy was a rabid enviro-wacko. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV29xK2xyZ4

[newfreep]

As a side note, it is superbly engineered and the Steve Hoffman remastered version has amazing sonic quality!

[Liberty Valance]

Judy is still drawing crowds at 75. Here she is last Friday on the main stage at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Her hair is now white but the lights kind'a washed out the photo.

One of the reasons we moved to Kerrville was the music/ songwriters that come through every year. We got to see Peter, Paul & Mary before Mary passed away. Robert Earl Keen got his first break here when he entered the 'New Folk' songwriting contest and won. He lives here now as well.

Robert Earl Keen: Feelin' Good Again

Farewell to Tarwathie - Judy Collins

[Fiji Hill]

I believe the song was written by a Scottish miller in 1850. It speaks in first person as a young man has decided to leave his farm in Tarwathie, Scotland for the purpose of hunting whale in Greenland.

This song emerged at about the time when the whaling industry was at its peak--and when Herman Melville's Moby Dick (New York: Harper, 1851) was a bestseller.

[lee martell]

Funny thing is, even though the character in this song is a man, I have no problem at all enjoying the song as sung with a woman’s voice. This type of song, is so far from our day to day experience, that we are more willing to accept it as delivered by a Storyteller. That is what Judy does hear, she relates the man’s story to us. I don’t really know if this theory works in reverse. I tend to doubt it.

[blueunicorn6]

A beautiful voice. Look at photos of her from the 60s. Judy Blue Eyes was/is dazzlingly beautiful, too.

[Seizethecarp]

Someday Soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70-1b9SCj0

Judy Collins gone country on the Smothers Brothers...

This one will make me cry so I won’t be listening to it right now...

[ccmay]

Another very fine version sung by a real Scotswoman:

http://speysidesessions.bandcamp.com/track/fareweel-tae-tarwathie

[Gay State Conservative]

Judy Collins's first five albums were absolute classics and that goes double for her Town Hall Concert album.The stuff she's done since then,despite having been a commercial success,does nothing for me.Despise her politics but love some of her work.

Also,"Suite:Judy Blue Eyes" singlehandedly kept me from going AWOL during BCT in '69 (long,*long* story).