Search - Artist/Band: Judy Collins

• Name: Judy Collins
• Birthday: 05/01/1939
• Birth Place: Seattle, WA
• Decades Active: 1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Folk
• Styles: Folk Revival, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic, Singer/Songwriter, AM Pop, Contemporary Folk
• Moods: Gentle, Intimate, Literate, Poignant, Reflective, Wistful, Melancholy, Plaintive, Theatrical, Bittersweet, Calm/Peaceful, Delicate, Earnest, Ethereal, Laid-Back/Mellow, Organic, Refined/Mannered

Title	Release
20 Classic Songs	07/08/2008
Sings Lennon And Mccartney WA	06/26/2007
Introducing... Judy Collins WA	08/22/2006
Golden Legends: Judy Collins	02/28/2006
Fifth Album/In My Life WA	02/13/2006
Wildflowers/Who Knows Where the Time Goes	02/13/2006
The Essential [Intercontinental]	10/18/2005
Greatest Hits WA	08/30/2005
Portrait of an American Girl	03/29/2005
Voices	01/10/2005
Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy WA	08/31/2004
The Essential [Wildflower] WA	06/22/2004
Judy Collins 3 & 4	01/06/2004
Maids and Golden Apples	09/11/2001
The Very Best of Judy Collins	08/21/2001
Classic Folk	12/19/2000
All on a Wintry Night	10/24/2000
Send in the Clowns WA	02/22/2000
Classic Broadway	09/21/1999
Both Sides Now [Intersound]	08/25/1998
Forever: An Anthology	10/28/1997
Voices (Includes Songbook and a Memoir)	1995
Come Rejoice!: A Judy Collins Christmas	09/20/1994
Shameless	1994
Judy Sings Dylan...Just Like a Woman	1993
Wind Beneath My Wings [Laserlight #1]	02/26/1992
Wind Beneath My Wings [Laserlight #2]	01/31/1992
Fires of Eden	09/1990
Baby's Bedtime	1990
Baby's Morningtime	1990
Sanity and Grace WA	1989
Trust Your Heart	1987
Home Again WA	1984
The Times of Our Lives	1982
Running for My Life WA	1980
Hard Times for Lovers WA	1979
Bread and Roses WA	1976
Judith	1975
True Stories and Other Dreams WA	1973
Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins	1972
Living	1971
Whales & Nightingales WA	1970
Recollections: The Best of Judy Collins	1969
Who Knows Where the Time Goes	1968
Wildflowers WA	1967
In My Life WA	1966
Fifth Album	1965

Judy Collins was one of the major interpretive folksingers of the '60s. A child prodigy at classical piano, she turned to folk music at the age of 15 and released her first album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, in 1961 when she was 22. That album and its follow-up, The Golden Apples of the Sun, consisted of traditional folk material, with Collins's pure, sweet soprano accompanied by her acoustic guitar playing. By the time of Judy Collins #3, she had begun to turn to contemporary material and to add other musicians. (Jim, later Roger, McGuinn tried out his first arrangements of "The Bells of Rhymney" and "Turn, Turn, Turn" on this album, before using them with The Byrds.)

Collins's musical horizons were expanded further by 1966 and the release of In My Life, which added theater music to her repertoire and introduced her audience to the writing of Leonard Cohen; it was one of her six albums to go gold. Her first gold-seller, however, was 1967's Wildflowers, which contained her hit version of "Both Sides Now" by the then-little-known songwriter Joni Mitchell.

By the '70s, Collins had come to be identified as much as an art song singer as a folksinger and had also begun to make a mark with her original compositions. Her best-known performances cover a wide stylistic range: the traditional gospel song "Amazing Grace," the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad "Send in the Clowns," and such songs of her own as "My Father" and "Born to the Breed." Collins recorded less frequently after the end of her 23-year association with Elektra Records in 1984, though she made two albums for Gold Castle. In 1990, she signed to Columbia Records and released Fires of Eden, her 23rd album. A move to Geffen preceded the 1993 release of Judy Sings Dylan...Just Like a Woman; Shameless followed on Atlantic in 1994. Six years later, Collins released the Christmas album All on a Wintry Night. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide