Search - Judy Collins :: True Stories & Other Dreams

Having exquisitely interpreted virtually every other songwriter of note from the 60s and early 70s, on this 1973 album Judy brought her own songwriting to the fore, contributing over half of the material. In addition to five Collins originals, True Stories also most notably featured the Top Forty hit Cook with Honey ; the Stephen Stills cover So Begins the Task ; and Tom Paxton's The Hostage , written in the wake of the 1971 Attica prison riots. It s one of her best, and it was rewarded with a #17 showing on the charts.