I was with a bunch of therapists that didn't believe in dating one person, so you hear - 'Tuesdays and Saturdays.' That's, that's from real life. He hated New York and therapy and I was in both - and you can hear it in the song.

I mean, he was on the West Coast - I was on the East Coast. it has some reality in it that's unmistakable. And, y'know, in that sense, it's pretty ( laughs). Coming in second was Neil Young's “Ohio” - the group's immediate and very public answer to the carnage at Kent State on May 4th, 1970, with the Top Three being rounded out by the “Woodstock Nation” call to arms - the Stephen Stills– David Crosby– Paul Kantner co-write, “Wooden Ships.”Īpart from all of her amazing accomplishments, Judy Collins will never not be known and beloved as the muse for Stephen Stills' masterpiece, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” Collins revealed to us that the song remains truly a snapshot of her and Stills' relationship at that exact moment: “There are a lot of lines with what was going on in my life and his. Beautifully written, richly textured, and sharply insightful, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is an unforgettable chronicle of the folk renaissance in America.The editors of Classic Rock magazine have listed “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” as the best song in the extended Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young catalogue. 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. 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 is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. 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.

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