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    Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music
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    Audiobook10 hours

    Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music

    By Judy Collins

    Narrated by Judy Collins

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    About this audiobook

    A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the '60s, when hits like "Both Sides Now" catapulted her to international fame.

    Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen Stills, her friendships with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Fariña, David Crosby, and Leonard Cohen and, above all, the music that helped define a decade and a generation's sound track.

    Sweet Judy Blue Eyes invites the reader into the parties that peppered Laurel Canyon and into the recording studio so we see how cuts evolved take after take, while it sets an array of amazing musical talent against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent decades of twentieth-century America.

    Beautifully written, richly textured, and sharply insightful, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is an unforgettable chronicle of the folk renaissance in America.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 18, 2011
    ISBN9780307941336
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    • 4/5
      I've been a fan of Judy Collins' music for over thirty years, and this is the second of her three autobiographies/memoirs I've read. (The first was 2007's SINGING LESSONS: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, LOSS, HOPE, AND HEALING; I haven't yet tackled 2003's SANITY AND GRACE: A JOURNAL OF SUICIDE, SURVIVAL, AND STRENGTH,) This one goes into detail about her early career, when she vied with Joan Baez for the title of queen of the folk music world. But the new book goes into far more detail about her struggles with alcoholism than the 2007 one did. She also presents a more detailed portrait of the life and death of her only child, Clark.My only complaint is that, while the alcoholism is presented vividly, the recovery from the disease is treated kind of superficially.
    • 3/5
      If you like Judy Collins, you'll find her honest about her life, foibles and all.
    • 4/5
      I began this, thinking it would be a decent musical memoir shedding light, for me, on the American folk music scene.

      It was this and so much more.
      It was very insightful as she spoke to you in an intimate manner.
      ....nothing was tawdry...the honesty was compelling.
      I had to read on.

      You meet many who touched her in a personal and/or creative way
      She spares nothing in the chronicle of her walk with alcoholism.
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      "It provided a study array of amazing musical talent against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent decades of twentieth-century America."

      "Collins provides a panoramic view of a politically turbulent but creatively explosive bygone era.
      Along with telling the story of her own rise to prominence in the mid-'60s New York City folk scene, the author also places her life in its broader historical context."

      I would highly highly recommend this memoir.

      I had a chance to review American history, development in musical genres
      and read a very moving and personal story.”
    • 5/5
      Narrated by the author, this autobiography is absolutely marvelous. Collins' prose and voice are lyrical. She is a musical icon and her stories, lovers, and friendhips are as well. Immerse yourself in the sixties, the folk music, and let the story wash over you as the best music always does. I had trouble taking breaks from this one.