Over time, though, she has written more of her own material. At first, she excelled in performing the songs of others: the anonymous composers of folk ballads (what Collins looks back on as “long, sorrowful songs about drowned maidens and silver daggers”) and such contemporaries as Leonard Cohen, Dylan and Mitchell, whose “ Both Sides Now” became an international hit for Collins in 1968. Among the great folksingers of the 1960s, only Judy Collins has kept her pipes intact (she headlined at Wolf Trap in September).įor my money, Collins’s was and is the best voice of them all - limpid and lyrical while at the same time full and rich. ![]() Joan Baez’s silvery soprano is tarnished with age. ![]() ![]() Bob Dylan sounds as if his lungs could use a chimneysweep. Too much smoking has reduced Joni Mitchell’s voice to a bray.
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