Judy Collins

Rp - yes exactly on both.

I have seen her multiple times recently including in the front row at this wonderful new venue this Fall.

Shalin Liu

She sang Farewell to Tarwathie complete with the whale songs with that background looking much like the picture. The person who recorded the whale songs lives just a few miles away for Shain Liu. Awesome concert. She is one of the few of that era who has maintained a lot of her voice. I cannot wait for her to return.

Personally I like Paradise better than Bohemian, but both are fine albums. Jimmy Webb wrote Gauguin for Paradise. He also wrote Campo de Encino on Bohemian. At this time of year we like her Christmas album, All on a Wintry Night.

I recently picked up her first albums, A Maid of Constant Sorrow and Golden Apples of the Golden Sun. They really show how much folk music changed in the early 60's.

Her book Sweet Judy Blue Eyes : My Life In Music provides a great insight into her life and into the folk music scene of the time. Highly recommended for people who really appreciate her and folk music of the 60s and 70's. But, as she always says, if you say you remember the 60's you were not really there.

FTC do you mean roger Payne? She sang campo as well. Would love to hear farewell live but did hear Mariieka a few years back in NYC.

Jimmy Webb wrote Campo de Encino many years ago and it has been done by a lot of people. Judy did it on Bohemian. It is about his time living in Encino CA, outside LA. I am pretty sure she never went there, but Joni Mitchell probably did. I think she was closer to Webb at that time. Not sure about Roger Payne??

Marieke is a Jacques Brel song. I also have him singing it. Great song.

Dtk, I was asking if it was Roger Payne who recored the humpback whale sounds/songs. I though it was he who did that, I have to LPs of his recordings (Songs of The Humpback Whales and a follow-up).