Judy Collins

SHOF/PBS Chats: Billy Joel, Jimmy Jam, Jimmy Webb, Garth Brooks, Allan Toussaint, Dwight Yoakum, Hal David, Paul Williams...

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: John Bettis, Sam Moore, Paul Williams, Linda Ronstadt, Michael McDonald, Cousin Brucie, Ozzy Osbourne, Allan Toussaint, The Carpenters, Glen Campbell, Danny Aiello, Billy Joel, Bruno Mars, Hunter Freberg, Alexa Ray Joel, Gary US Bonds, Terry Lewis, Barry Mann, Southside Johnny, David Foster, Jimmy Jam, Garth Brooks, Bill Withers, Cythia Weil, Dwight Yoakum, Judy Collins, Stan Freberg, Jackson Browne, Johnny Mercer, Leon Russell, Sammy Cahn, Video, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to exchange a few words with many terrific songwriters and artists ranging from Billy Joel and Garth Brooks to Jimmy Jam and Jimmy Webb and even an exec or two as they that walked the red carpet at the Songwriters Hall Of Fame awards show.

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Judy Collins Discusses Life, Love -- And Music

The Huffington Post | Debra Ollivier and Evan Allis | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Activism, Judy Collins, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, 10 Big Questions, Grammy-Winner, Folk Music, Substance Abuse, Late Bloomers, Music, Fifty News

Abbie Hoffman praised her, Crosby, Stills & Nash sang about her and the Clintons named their daughter after her recording of "Chelsea Morning." But th...

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Judy Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judy Collins, Stephen Stills, Tom Paxton, Video, Entertainment News
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HuffPost Reviews: AC/DC and Jane Roman Pitt, Plus A Conversation with Grammy Nominee Chip Taylor and an Elvis Costello Audio Stream

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Lauderdale, Van Morrison, Al Gorgoni, Pete Finney, Meat Loaf, Dick Charles, Chip Taylor, Robert Ellis, Dixie Chicks, Brian Johnson, Donovan, Tim Moore, Judy Rodman, Judy Collins, King Records, Martha Jacobs, Elvis Costello, Karen Carpenter, The Byrds, Anne Murray, Johnny Cash, Cameo/Parkway, AC/DC, Angus Young, Shaggy, Malcolm Young, Billy Vera, John Platania, U2, Warner Bros. Records, Jack Johnson, Gram Parsons, Curt Perkins, Merrilee Rush, Sade, Glen Campbell, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Mac Gayden, Barry Voight, Billy Gibbons, Ace Frehley, Mannheim Steamroller, Bill Frisell, Evie Sands, Joe Perry, Philip Morris, Robert Alford, Willie Nelson, Hank Ballard, Judy Clay, Neil Bogart, James Brown, Hugh Pretwood, Juice Newton, Carrie Rodriquez, Tommy Cogbill, Phil Sutcliffe, Buddah Records, Chris Slade, Jon Voight, Joe Bonomo, Tom Waits, Steve Vai, Emmylou Harris, Kendal Carson, Brian Ahern, The Troggs, Jane Roman Pitt, Henry Glover, Sxsw, Chips Moman, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Ladylullaby, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

So, you think you know all things AC/DC? Really. Well, take a hit of the essays, historical photos, memorabilia, and general overkill contained between the over 225 pages of High Voltage Rock 'N' Roll: The Ultimate Illustrated History.

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From No Chocolate Cake to a Reckoning: Conversations with Gin Blossoms, Luke Doucet, and Tony Lunn

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Chocolate Cake: Conversations With Gin Blossoms, Robert Crumb, High School Reunion, A&M Records, Sarah McLachlan, And Tony Lunn Tony Lunn, Sarah Palin, South by Southwest, Hot Hot Heat, Marc Cohn, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Sloan, Judy Collins, Crowded House, The Odds, Marshall Crenshaw, McCabe's Guitar Shop, Capitol Records, Hurricane Katrina, Cheap Trick, President Clinton, Rick Parker, All We Are Saying, Cubbie Bear, Switchfoot, Columbia Records, Pat Pattison, Eddie Money, David Anderle, Tom Petty, Rosanna Arquette, Tom DeSavia, Merle Travis, Christine O'donnell, Darrell Scott, Grammy Award, The Rembrandts, Styx, Peter Case, Scott Johnson, Benny & Joon, Paul Simon, David Collier, Danny Wilde, John Hiatt, Janis Joplin, Andrew Scott, Gas Giants, Luke Doucet, Kelly Ryan, Chris Murphy, Chet Atkins, Control, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Steve Seskin, Bill Leen, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Elektra Records, Jethro Tull, Harvey Pekar, Simon & Garfunkel, Robin Wilson, The Shoes, Arif Mardin, Geffen Records, Kruu-Fm, The Jerk, Train, Craig Northey, Virgin Records, Gin Blossoms, Anton Corbijn, Badfinger, Jess Valenzuela, Shubas, Anberlin, Grammy Awards, Entertainment News
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Tomorrow's Children: A Conversation With Pete Seeger, Plus Chatting With Bill Frisell

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AP Carter, Eyvind Kang, ECM Records, Winston Churchill, Pete Seeger, Blind WIllie Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Paul Motian, Rudy Royston, Teddy Randazzo, Nikita Kruschev, The Weavers, Judy Collins, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bill Frisell, Dar Williams, Rutherford B Hayes, Franklyn Delanore Roosevelt, Stax Records, Benny Goodman, Elvis Costello, The Byrds, Theodor Roosevelt, Stephen Foster, Burt Bacharach, Genghis Khan, The Staple Singers, Fantasy Records, Kurt Vonnegut, David Bernz, Fantasy Studios, Pat Metheny, Fdr, Reuben James, Herbie Hancock, Terry Udell, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

After years of activism on behalf of the average Joe and Jane, this 91-year-old national treasure still swings a heavy hammer, and his thoughtful insights are presented here just in time for Labor Day.

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"The Immigrant Song": A Playlist For Arizona Governor Jan Brewer

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Governor Jan Brewer, Madonna, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, Squeeze, Aqualung, Iron & Wine, Led Zeppelin, Scottsdale, Arizona, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Mark Lindsay, Glen Campbell, James McMurtry, Alejandro Escovedo, Jan Brewer, Robbie Williams, Judy Collins, Phoenix, Dire Straits, Elton John, Kings of Leon, Will Smith, Phoenix Suns, Terry Goddard, Ben E. King, Arizona Immigration Law, Karen Carpenter, Entertainment News
David Wild

After seeing some of Gov. Jan Brewer's mind-blowing meltdown performance during her debate with Terry Goddard, here's a playlist for a woman who lost her head, and a state that seems bent on doing the same.

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Judy Collins: Beauty Gets Down to Business

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laura Baudo Sillerman, Both Sides Now, Paradise, Over the Rainbow, Judy Collins, Wvfc, Joan Baez, Women's Voices for Change, Wildflower Records, Arts News
Laura Baudo Sillerman

A mature audience couldn't find a better role model than Judy Collins, a recording artist whose latest CD includes a duet of "Diamonds and Rust" with Joan Baez. She's a businesswoman with the voice of a choir of angels.

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Judy Collins Goes Over the Rainbow

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laura Baudo Sillerman, Women, Over the Rainbow, Judy Collins, Music, Wvfc, Women's Music, Women's Voices for Change, Peter Yarrow, Arts News
Laura Baudo Sillerman

The new book Over the Rainbow comes with a CD soundtrack sung by Ms. Collins, and it is possible to believe one is actually being transported to another dimension when listening to it.

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Paradise & Little Vigils: Conversations with Judy Collins and That Guy Mark Erelli

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Johnson, Greg Allman, Tom Paxton, Little Milton, Jim Chastain, Chrissie Hyde, Pat Robertson, Joan Baez, Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Judy Collins, Paul Yarrow, Stephen Stills, David Buskin, Kenny White, Dan Fogelberg, Al Cooper, Peter Paul & Mary, The Rolling Stones, Elektra Records, Bill Clinton, Mimi FariñA, Chelsea Clinton, David Batteau, The Blues Project, Tim Weissberg, Crosby Stills & Nash, Galileo, Zack Hickman, Amy Speace, Paul Gauguin, Bob Dylan, Jesse Valenzuela, Gin Blossoms, The Mamas & the Papas, The Grateful Dead, Leonard Cohen, The Allman Brothers, Charles Darwin, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, John Denver, Jackson Browne, Billboard, Joni Mitchell, Hillary Clinton, Glenn Beck, Rufus Wainwright, Beradette Peters, Chris Smither, Buddy Miller, Jimmy Webb, 9/11, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Collins discusses her new album, which includes a song about 9/11 and a duet recorded with Joan Baez, and what it's like to have the President of the United States name his child after your record.

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Judy Collins At The Caryle Ends Last Night

Alex Vadukul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carlyle, Judy Collins, Nyc, Judy Collins at the Carlyle, Judy-Collins-Cafe-Carlyle, Judy Collins Folk, New York News
Alex Vadukul

This Saturday brings an end to a privileged musical experience: legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins' intimate season performances at the Cafe Car...

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We Need Bloggers!

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paley Center for Media, Housing Works, Perez Hilton, True Love Cast Out All Evil, Emily St. John Mandel, Colson Whitehead, Brian Williams, New York, Joes Pub, Webster Hall, Roky Erickson, Okkervil River, Judy Collins, Amy King, 13th Floor Elevators, Perez Hilton Saves the Universe, Literary Pub Crawl, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Fallon, New York News

Huffington Post continues its local coverage with the help our Citizen Journalism Unit. To join the local reporting team and receive advance assignmen...

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Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Col. H. H. Rogers, James Rorimer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitain Museum of Art, John Russell Pope, Artful-Tom, Mr. And Mrs. Hamilton McKown Twombly, Standard Oil of Ohio, Thomas Hoving, John D. Rockefeller, The-Cloisters, Harlem-Lost-and-Found, Tiffany's, William-Pahlmann, Wendy Burden, Walter-Hoving, Jesus Christ, Dead-End-Gene-Pool, Nelson Rockefeller, Nancy Hoving, William A. M. Burden, Making the Mummies Dance, Judy Collins, Books News
Michael Henry Adams

The tea sandwiches were delectable. Those in attendance, mostly establishment types, were mostly stylishly dressed. Mr. Hoving would certainly have approved.

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It Takes The Village: Interviews with Shelby Lynne, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Timmins, John Oates, Amos Lee, Rachael Yamagata, Steve Berlin, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amos Lee, The Decemberists, Leftover Salmon, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Terry, Los Lobos, The Lovin' Spoonful, Eric Andersen, Joe Ely, John Sebastian, Chip Taylor, Pete Seeger, Matt Umanov, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & Oates, Brownie McGee, Greenwich Village, Woody Guthrie, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Fred Neil, Joan Baez, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Daryl Hall, Rachael Yamagata, The Duhks, Sixpence None the Richer, Judy Collins, Doc Watson, Marshall Crenshaw, Art Alexakis, Bleecker Street, Bruce Hornsby, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies, Jerry Garcia, Dave Van Ronk, Suze Rotolo, Drew Emmitt, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, This Mortal Coil, Shelby Lynne, Rhino Records, Steve Berlin, Entertainment News, Rocco DeLuca, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, John Oates, Richie Havens, 429 Records, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

It's a little surprising that until now, no one has put together a tribute album to folk's fertile days in New York's Greenwich Village.

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HuffPost Reviews: Twilight's New Moon, Kerouac's Big Sur, Cohen's Isle Of Wight, and more including This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, The Jacksons, Son Volt, Lawrence Ferenghetti, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Flight of the Conchords, John Mayer, Jay Farrar, Judy Collins, The Killers, Woodstock, Thom Yorke, David Bowie, The Jackson 5, Curt Worden, Sam Shepard, Jack Kerouac, Twilight, Kris Kristofferson, Big Sur, Patti Smith, The Twilight Sage: New Moon, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Benjamin Gibbard, The Doors, Kings of Convenience, Leonard Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie, Robert Francis, Murray Lerner, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, New Moon, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Leading off with Death Cab For Cutie's infectious "Meet Me On The Equinox," New Moonmay be after your traditional teen market's pop dollars, but they're also attempting to tap into 20-something angst.

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Judy Collins: Singing for the Privileged Few

James Gavin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1960s, Susan Boyle, Cafe Carlyle, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Folk Music, Barbra Streisand, Judy-Collins-Cafe-Carlyle, Leonard Cohen, New York News
James Gavin

As I watched the transfixed faces of Judy's Carlyle fans, I had to wonder: What long and winding road took them here? Did they ever roll around in the mud at Woodstock? Take LSD?

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Judy Collins Sings The Stuff Of Folklore, Perfectly

Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judy Collins Cafe Carlyle, '60s Pop Music, Cafe Carlyle, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Music, Joan Baez, Entertainment News
Katy Hall

She drifted into a few lines of 'Suzanne,' the song Leonard Cohen wrote for her to sing but made him famous, stopping herself just as she got to those oranges that traveled halfway around the world in the summer of 1965.

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Forty Years After Chicago, We Have Not Found the Things We Lost

Judy Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, Lee Weiner, The Chicago 10, 1968 Democratic National Convention, 1968 Chicago, Judy Collins, Police Brutality, Tom Hayden, Folk Music, Jerry Rubin, Rennie-Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Yippies, David Dellinger, John Froines, Politics News
Judy Collins

The Chicago Seven were very serious peace activists and were baited into a festival of confusion instead of a festival of life in Chicago in 1968, launched to take the focus off the war.

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An Interview With Buffy Sainte-Marie, Plus Train and Digital 45 Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chaka Khan, Columbia Records, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Scorr Underwood, The Doobie Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Seals & Crofts, Air America, Vanguard Records, Commander John Herrington, The Charlatans, Cash for Clunkers, Sesame Street, Woodstock, Vietnam War, The Cradleboard Teaching Project, Chumbawamba, Van Morrison, Phil Ochs, Third Eye Blind, Jimmy Stafford, Georgia Satellites, Eric Anderson, Rhino Entertainment, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Digital 45, Donovan, Marc Cohn, Judy Collins, Folk, First Nations, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Train, Neil Diamond, Martin Terefe, Kellogg Foundation, Elvis Presley, Npr, Itunes, Rhino Records, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Pat Monahan, Nasa, Alannah Myles, Anita Baker, The Marcels, President Obama, The Highwaymen, Grateful Dead, Native Americans, Genesis, Keith Olbermann, Fred Neil, Glen Campbell, Harry Chapin, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Joe Cocker, Foghat, Ford Foundation, Pacifica, Gordon Lightfoot, Entertainment News, Jennifer Warnes, Morrissey, Bobby Bare, Tommy James and the Shondells, Randy Travis, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This being Woodstock Week, it seemed a perfect time to catch-up with this artist whose music influenced many of those who appeared at the culture-changing event.

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