That's the only time I remember ever doing that. I was in the middle of nowhere and got a plane back to New York. When I got to the hotel, I called the guy and said I have to go home right now. I had anxiety and depression - that's part of my story. I flew to Colorado, and when I got to this little mountain town, I was overcome with panic. I can remember one show that I canceled in the early ‘70s.
But I never missed a show and always turned up for work. The first 20 years of my career, I was drinking. I don't know how I did it particularly, since I was an active alcoholic for 23 years, starting at 15. What would Judy today have told that younger version of yourself? A Maid of Constant Sorrow came out in 1961. I've been writing songs, and I'm getting ready to go to the studio and finish up my new album of all my own songs. Now we've started to go out to restaurants. I did just put a bunch of beef in some teriyaki sauce to marinate overnight, but that's as close as I come to cooking. I'll boil an egg or make an egg white omelet.
The stores I would normally shop in for food, Zabar's included, all deliver. We have a lot of Zoom dinners with friends. Collins, whose silvery voice has lost none of its radiance or range, also intends to resume her pace of 120 concerts annually and has booked shows starting in June.įrom her apartment on New York City's Upper West Side (which she's had for more than 50 years), Collins spoke with AARP about her life, loves, songs and why, at 82, she can't imagine retiring. And on June 3, she will launch Since You've Asked, a 24-episode podcast series featuring her conversations with admired musicians and creative thinkers. She's just released a collection of covers, White Bird: Anthology of Favorites ( listen here). After recording a broad range of folk, pop, rock, show tunes and standards on 41 studio albums over the past 60 years, the 82-year-old soprano refuses to slow down.Īn album of her own compositions, Beauty and Resistance, is due by late summer. She had already spent years as a classical pianist, training since the age of 4 and making her public debut at 13.
En español | Judy Collins was 22 when her folk-oriented debut album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, arrived 60 years ago.
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