![]() Collins made her debut in 1961 with the album Maid of Constant Sorrow, but her elegance has always made her more than a folk singer. She had another Mitchell-penned hit, "Both Sides Now," and has done interpretive justice to works by Leonard Cohen ("Suzanne"), Stephen Sondheim ("Send in the Clowns") and Bob Dylan (her Dylan covers album). It's Collins's cool, crystalline soprano and her gift for finding the heart of so many songs written by her peers. Of course it's not those famous blue eyes - someone once dubbed them "marble sky" - that have fueled Collins's 35-year career or the 28 albums she's released, including Shameless, due on July 18, the same day she performs at Wolf Trap. Judy Collins has been immortalized in a hit song - former and apparently forlorn lover Stephen Stills's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" - and in the White House, where First Daughter Chelsea Clinton is testimony to her parents' love for Collins's hit version of "Chelsea Morning" (actually written by Joni Mitchell). ![]()
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