Longhaired Redneck is an album released by country musician David Allan Coe . It was released in 1976 on Columbia .
74-609: Longhaired Redneck was Coe's third album for Columbia in three years and the first where he wrote or co-wrote all the songs. Coe had already written several hits for other artists and scored his own Top 10 hit in 1975 with the Steve Goodman - John Prine composition " You Never Even Called Me by My Name ." By 1976 the outlaw country movement was in full swing as artists such as Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson were finally enjoying massive commercial success after years of fighting to record their music their own way. Coe, however,
148-465: A Fly ", " Do-Re-Mi ", and "Send in the Clowns". She also appeared several times on Sesame Street , where she performed "Fishermen's Song" with a chorus of Anything Muppet fishermen, sang a trio with Biff and Sully using the word "yes", and even starred in a modern musical fairy tale skit called "The Sad Princess". In 1979, she returned to music with her twelfth studio album Hard Times for Lovers ,
222-487: A Grammy Award nomination for Best Folk Album for Silver Skies Blue with Ari Hest . In 2019 at the age of 80, she scored her first No. 1 album on an American Billboard chart with Winter Stories , a duet album with Norwegian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jonas Fjeld featuring Chatham County Line . In 2022, she released her first studio album of all original material, titled Spellbound , and it earned her another Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. Collins
296-602: A busy release schedule via Wildflower, issuing numerous live albums and reissues as well as new material such as 2005's Portrait of an American Girl , 2010's Paradise , and 2011's Bohemian , all of which focused on her continued strength as an interpretive vocalist. In 2006, she sang " This Little Light of Mine " in a commercial for Eliot Spitzer . In 2007, she released her own covers collection of Beatles songs, entitled Judy Collins Sings Lennon and McCartney . Various artists, including Shawn Colvin , Rufus Wainwright , and Chrissie Hynde , covered Collins's compositions for
370-509: A classic which is still played on Dutch radio. Inspired by this version Rudi Carrell , a Dutch TV host and entertainer who was also very successful in Germany, covered the song with German lyrics ("Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?") in 1975. It peaked #18 in the Top 40 and has become a radio classic which gains airplay in rainy summers. A Hebrew version of the song "Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet"
444-425: A contemplative mood, featuring an original song about a friend who took his own life ("Song for Martin") and another about the life of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara ("Che"). For her tenth studio album Judith (1975), she collaborated with producer Arif Mardin , who gave the album a sophisticated sound. Judith produced her biggest hit single with her mournful version of Stephen Sondheim's " Send in
518-497: A contract with Buddah Records . All this time, Goodman had been busy writing many of his most enduring songs, and this avid songwriting would lead to an important break for him. While at the Quiet Knight, Goodman saw Arlo Guthrie and asked him to let him play a song for him. Guthrie grudgingly agreed on the condition that Goodman buy him a beer first; Guthrie would then listen to Goodman for as long as it took Guthrie to drink
592-612: A duet with country star T. G. Sheppard on the title cut. While the "Home Again" single was a minor hit, the album was not, and after 23 years, Collins and Elektra parted ways. She performed the music for the 1983 animated television special The Magic of Herself the Elf , as well as the theme song of the Rankin/Bass Productions television film The Wind in the Willows . Collins traveled to England in 1985 and struck
666-486: A gift from his publishing royalties. Goodman's name is mentioned in Coe's recording of the song, in a spoken epilogue in which Goodman and Coe discuss the merits of "the perfect country and western song". Goodman's success as a recording artist was more limited. Although he was known in folk circles as an excellent and influential songwriter, his albums received more critical than commercial success. One of Goodman's biggest hits
740-589: A live disc titled Sanity and Grace , and a collaboration with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman , Innervoices . In 1990, Collins released her eighteenth studio album Fires of Eden on Columbia Records . The album spawned one single – "Fires of Eden", written by Kit Hain and Mark Goldenberg . The single peaked at No. 31 on Billboard ' s Adult Contemporary chart. At the time of its release, Collins performed it live on several occasions, including on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Joan Rivers Show . A music video promoting it and featuring her
814-699: A major hit and a Grammy Award in Mitchell's " Both Sides, Now ", which in December 1968 reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 , later (February 1970) reaching No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart . Collins' seventh studio album Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968) was produced by David Anderle , and featured back-up guitar by Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills & Nash ), with whom she
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#1732786880241888-479: A one-off deal with Telstar Records to record the studio album Amazing Grace , in which she re-recorded several of her better-known songs with an inspirational bent. In 1987, she signed with the independent Gold Castle label, and her first studio album for them, Trust Your Heart , which collected seven tracks from Amazing Grace and added three new selections. That same year, she released her first memoir, Trust Your Heart . In 1989, Collins released two albums:
962-441: A pop-oriented album in the same vein as Judith ; she gained some extra publicity with the cover sleeve photograph of her in the nude. Running for My Life (1980) and Times of Our Lives (1982) were well-crafted exercises in adult pop and soft rock, but as tastes changed, Collins' sales were on the decline. Home Again (1984) found her exploring some new musical avenues, including a synth-based cover of Yaz's "Only You" and
1036-538: A posthumous Grammy for Best Country Song in 1985 . A French translation of the song, "Salut Les Amoureux", was recorded by Joe Dassin in 1973. A Dutch singer, Gerard Cox , heard the French version while on holiday and translated it into Dutch, titled "'t Is Weer Voorbij Die Mooie Zomer" ("And again that beautiful summer has come to an end"). It reached number one on the Dutch Top 40 in December 1973 and has become
1110-529: A rehabilitation program in Pennsylvania in 1978 and has maintained her sobriety ever since, even through such traumatic events as the death of her only child, Clark, by suicide in 1992 at age 33 after a long bout with clinical depression and substance abuse. Since then, she has also become an activist for suicide prevention. Collins is a member of the Episcopal Church . In 2000, she cancelled
1184-839: A teenager. He graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois , in 1965, where he was a classmate of Hillary Clinton . During high school he began his public singing career by leading the junior choir at Temple Beth Israel in Albany Park. In the fall of 1965, he entered the University of Illinois and pledged the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. In college he formed a cover band called The Juicy Fruits, with Goodman on lead guitar, Ron Banyon on rhythm guitar, Steve Hartmann on bass, and Elliot Englehardt on drums. He left college after one year to pursue his musical career. In
1258-479: A track with singer-songwriter Ari Hest . Collins and Hest joined forces again in 2016 for a full studio album titled Silver Skies Blue , which later earned them a Grammy Award nomination for Best Folk Album . In 2017, Collins returned to the work of the songwriter who gave her " Send in the Clowns " with A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim , and the same year, she and her longtime friend, Stephen Stills , collaborated on an album, Everybody Knows . In addition to
1332-641: A tribute to Goodman's father, Bud Goodman, a used-car salesman and World War II veteran. Goodman won his second Grammy, for Best Contemporary Folk Album , in 1988 for Unfinished Business , a posthumous album on his Red Pajamas Records label. Many fans become aware of Goodman's work through other artists such as Jimmy Buffett . Buffett has recorded several of Goodman's songs, including "This Hotel Room", "Banana Republics", and "California Promises", as well as songs co-written with Buffett: "Door Number Three", "Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street", "Frank and Lola", "It's Midnight and I'm not Famous Yet", and "Where's
1406-430: Is a more obvious derivative paean to Southern rock , with its Allman Brothers -like guitar intro and title evoking that band's biggest hit. Coe is backed by The Nashville Edition and The Jordanaires on vocals, as well as some of Nashville's top session musicians such as Reggie Young and Charlie McCoy. AllMusic praised the album, opining "Like most of Coe's '70s material, this one's essential outlaw country that stands
1480-608: Is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. An Academy Award -nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award -winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music , country , show tunes , pop music , rock and roll and standards ), for her social activism , and for the clarity of her voice. Her discography consists of 36 studio albums, nine live albums, numerous compilation albums, four holiday albums, and 21 singles . Collins' debut studio album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow ,
1554-490: Is an addiction or that it would get worse. My feelings about myself, even though I had been able to give up smoking and lose 20 pounds, were of increasing despair." She wrote at length of her years of addiction to alcohol, the damage it did to her personal and musical life and how it contributed to her feelings of depression. She admits that although she tried other drugs in the 1960s, alcohol had always been her drug of first choice just as it had been for her father. She entered
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#17327868802411628-496: Is the subject of the Stephen Stills composition " Suite: Judy Blue Eyes ", which appeared on the 1969 eponymous debut studio album of Crosby, Stills & Nash . Collins suffered from bulimia nervosa after she quit smoking in the 1970s. "I went straight from the cigarettes into an eating disorder ", she told People magazine in 1992. "I started throwing up. I didn't know anything about bulimia, certainly not that it
1702-522: The Grammy songwriter award for best country song. Goodman co-wrote " You Never Even Called Me by My Name ", which became the best-selling song of country musician David Allen Coe . A lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, Goodman wrote " Go Cubs Go ." Goodman died of leukemia in September 1984. Goodman was born on Chicago's North Side to a middle-class Jewish family. He began writing and performing songs as
1776-549: The University of Connecticut , where her husband taught. She performed at parties and for the campus radio station along with David Grisman and Tom Azarian. Collins eventually made her way to Greenwich Village , New York City where she played in clubs like Gerde's Folk City until she signed with Elektra Records , a label she was associated with for 35 years. In 1961, she released her debut studio album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow , at age 22. At first, Collins sang traditional folk songs or songs written by others–in particular
1850-586: The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington . He was 36 years old. On October 2, after clinching the National League East division title, the Cubs played their first post-season game since the 1945 World Series . Filling in for Goodman, who had been scheduled to sing " The Star-Spangled Banner " before the game, Jimmy Buffett dedicated the song to him. Since the 2000s, at
1924-531: The traditional songs of the folk revival of the early 1960s, however, that kindled Collins' interest and awoke in her a love for lyrics . Three years after her debut as a piano prodigy , she was playing guitar. Her first public appearances as a folk artist after her graduation from Denver's East High School were at Michael's Pub in Boulder, Colorado and the folk club Exodus in Denver. Her music became popular at
1998-398: The traditional Irish music her father sang. She did not know what folk music was when she was young. She said, "I just thought it was probably Rodgers and Hart . Those were the songs he (her father) sang on the radio. I didn't understand until I discovered The Gypsy Rover and Barbara Allen when I was 15. I didn't realize I had been singing Danny Boy all of that time... Danny Boy
2072-756: The Americana Hotel in New York to announce the party's formation. In 1969, she testified in Chicago in support of the Chicago Seven ; during her testimony, she began singing Pete Seeger 's " Where Have All the Flowers Gone? " and was admonished by prosecutor Tom Foran and judge Julius Hoffman . In 1971, Collins signed her name to a Ms . campaign, "We Have Had Abortions", which called for an end to "archaic laws" regarding abortion rights;
2146-575: The Beatles , Leonard Cohen , Jacques Brel , and Kurt Weill . Mark Abramson produced and Joshua Rifkin arranged the album, adding lush orchestration to many of the numbers. The album was a major departure for a folk artist and set the course for Collins' subsequent work over the next decade. With her sixth studio album Wildflowers (1967), also produced by Abramson and arranged by Rifkin, Collins began to record her own compositions, beginning with "Since You Asked". The album also provided her with
2220-488: The Briarpatch (Vanguard Records), which contained some of Paxton's topical songs of the 1970s, including "Talking Watergate" and "White Bones of Allende", as well as a song dedicated to Mississippi John Hurt entitled "Did You Hear John Hurt?" During the fall of 1979, Goodman was hired to write and perform a series of topical songs for National Public Radio . Although Goodman and Jethro Burns recorded eleven songs for
2294-550: The Clowns " (both of which were top 20 hits as singles in both the U.S. and the U.K. ), a recording of Joan Baez 's " A Song for David ", and her own compositions, such as "Born to the Breed". In 1971, Collins issued her second live album, Living , and the compilation album Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins followed a year later. Collins' ninth studio album True Stories and Other Dreams (1973) found her in
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2368-615: The Clowns ", and it would become her best-selling record, eventually going platinum. As Collins stepped up to a higher level of stardom, the longtime activist put political themes at the forefront of her eleventh studio album Bread and Roses (1976). Political statements like the title song, originally a poem by James Oppenheim commonly associated with a 1912 garment workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts , were balanced with such pop compositions as Elton John 's "Come Down in Time", but
2442-554: The Cubs made it to the playoffs, interest in the song and Goodman resulted in several newspaper articles about him. Illinois Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn declared October 5, 2007, Steve Goodman Day in the state. In 2010, Illinois Representative Mike Quigley introduced a bill renaming the Lakeview post office on Irving Park Road in honor of Goodman. The bill was signed by President Barack Obama on August 3, 2010. Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939)
2516-544: The Party?". Jackie DeShannon covered Goodman's "Would You Like to Learn to Dance" on her 1972 album, Jackie . Goodman's posthumously released album, Santa Ana Winds , included a tribute to Carl Martin , "You Better Get It While You Can (The Ballad of Carl Martin)", celebrating the joy both found in their music, and a refrain of, "From the cradle to the crypt, Is a mighty short trip. So you better get it while you can". On September 20, 1984, Goodman died of leukemia at
2590-524: The Time Goes? " composed by Sandy Denny and "Albatross") were featured in the 1968 film The Subject Was Roses . By the 1970s, Collins had a solid reputation as an art song singer and folksinger and had begun to stand out for her own compositions. She was also known for her broad range of material: her songs from this period include the traditional Christian hymn " Amazing Grace ", the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad " Send in
2664-690: The Year . Judith also became her best-selling studio album; it was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1975 for sales of over 500,000 copies and Platinum in 1996 for sales of over 1,000,000 copies. In 2017, Collins' rendition of the song " Amazing Grace " was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". That same year, she received
2738-604: The album failed to achieve the commercial success of Judith . Following the release of the album, Collins underwent treatment for damaged vocal cords, and after years of struggling with alcoholism, she sought medical help to give up drinking. Her compilation album So Early in the Spring... The First 15 Years (1977) sold modestly. Collins guest starred on The Muppet Show in an episode broadcast in January 1978, singing " Leather-Winged Bat ", " There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed
2812-569: The author himself - who was as good a singer as almost anyone and better than most - languished in obscurity. Rather than tone it down, Coe characteristically shoved the stereotypes in their faces. He retired the Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy persona and billed his new album as "David Allan Coe Rides Again as the Longhaired Redneck," something equally off-putting to institution types. The outlaw country zeitgeist
2886-594: The beer. Goodman played " City of New Orleans ", which Guthrie liked enough that he asked to record it. Guthrie's version of Goodman's song, about the Illinois Central's City of New Orleans train, became a Top 20 hit in 1972 and provided Goodman with enough financial and artistic success to make music a full-time career. The song would become an American standard , covered by such musicians as Johnny Cash , Judy Collins , Chet Atkins , Lynn Anderson , and Willie Nelson , whose recorded version earned Goodman
2960-508: The biggest success of her career with her recording of Stephen Sondheim 's " Send in the Clowns " from her tenth studio album Judith (1975). The single peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in 1975 and then again in 1977 at No. 19, spending 27 non-consecutive weeks on the chart and earning her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female , as well as a Grammy Award for Sondheim for Song of
3034-510: The campaign encouraged women to share their stories and take action. In 1982, she wrote the song "Mama Mama" about a mother of five and her ambivalence over her decision to abort an unintended pregnancy. In the late 1990s, she was a representative for UNICEF and campaigns on behalf of the abolition of landmines . Later songs include "River of Gold" about the environment and "My Name is Maria" about DREAMers , who are mostly undocumented students and youth. Collins has been married twice. She
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3108-540: The conclusion of every home game win, the Cubs play " Go, Cubs, Go ", written by Goodman. In April 1988, some of Goodman's ashes were scattered at Wrigley Field , the home of the Cubs. Goodman was survived by his wife and three daughters. In 2006, Goodman's daughter, Rosanna, issued My Old Man , an album of a variety of artists covering her father's songs. In 2007 the Chicago Cubs began playing Goodman's 1984 song "Go, Cubs, Go" after each home game win. When
3182-696: The early spring of 1967, Goodman went to New York, staying for a month in a Greenwich Village brownstone across the street from the Cafe Wha? , where he performed regularly. Returning to Chicago, he intended to restart his education. In 1968 Goodman began performing at the Earl of Old Town and The Dangling Conversation coffeehouse and attracted a following. By 1969, Goodman was a regular performer in Chicago, while attending Lake Forest College . During this time Goodman supported himself by singing advertising jingles. It
3256-466: The first in a series, with other holiday releases soon following, the first being the live album Christmas at the Biltmore Estate in 1997, followed by All on a Wintry Night in 2000. Collins combined her interests in music and literature for her next project. In 1995, she published a novel, Shameless , that took place against the backdrop of the music business; she also released an album of
3330-479: The following year and put its focus on her career as an artist. In July 2012, she appeared as a guest artist on the Australian SBS television programme RocKwiz . She paid homage to some of her favorite songwriters as well as her favorite vocalists with the 2015 album Strangers Again , which featured duets with Willie Nelson , Jackson Browne , Jeff Bridges , and Glen Hansard . The album also included
3404-542: The judging panel for the 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Annual Independent Music Awards. Like many other folk singers of her generation, Collins was drawn to social activism. Her political idealism led her to compose a ballad, Che, in honor of the 1960s Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara . Collins sympathized with the Yippie movement and was friendly with its leaders, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin . On March 17, 1968, she went to Hoffman's press conference at
3478-468: The lyrics, his mind couldn't have been a nice place to live.") Conversely, Longhaired Redneck also contains songs with warmer themes, such as "Texas Lullaby" ("See those tumbleweeds blowin’, Lord it makes me want to cry/It reminds me of my daddy and that Texas lullaby") and "Family Reunion," which boasts multilayered harmonies and an allusion to the bluegrass classic " Fox on the Run" . "Free Born Ramblin’ Man"
3552-598: The owner of the folk music bar, Goodman performed at The Earl dozens of times, including customary New Year's Eve concerts. He also remained closely involved with Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music , where he had met and mentored his friend, John Prine . Later in 1971, Goodman was playing at a Chicago bar called the Quiet Knight as the opening act for Kris Kristofferson . Impressed with Goodman, Kristofferson introduced him to Paul Anka , who brought Goodman to New York to record some demos. This resulted in Goodman signing
3626-449: The performance, Brico took both of Collins' hands into hers, looked wistfully at her fingers and said, "Little Judy—you really could have gone places." Still later, she discovered that Brico herself had made a living when she was younger playing jazz and ragtime piano ( Singing Lessons , pp. 71–72). In her early life, she met many professional musicians through her father. It was the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and
3700-426: The physical pain and time constraints of a fatal disease which he kept at bay, at times, seemingly by willpower alone... Steve wanted to live as normal a life as possible, only he had to live it as fast as he could... He extracted meaning from the mundane. Goodman's songs first appeared on Gathering at The Earl of Old Town , an album produced by Chicago record company Dunwich in 1971. As a close friend of Earl Pionke,
3774-413: The protest songwriters of the time, such as Tom Paxton , Phil Ochs , and Bob Dylan . She recorded her own versions of important songs from the period, such as Dylan's " Mr. Tambourine Man " and Pete Seeger 's " Turn! Turn! Turn! ". She was also instrumental in bringing little-known musicians to a wider public. For example, she recorded songs by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen , who became a close friend over
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#17327868802413848-442: The same name that served as the soundtrack. In 1998, Collins published her third book, Singing Lessons: A Memoir of Love , Loss, Hope and Healing, which focused on her struggles with alcoholism, depression, and the emotional trauma of her son's death. In 1999, she released Classic Broadway , a collection of vintage show tunes. That same year, she and her manager Katherine DePaul founded Wildflower Records. Collins maintained
3922-767: The series, only five of them, "The Ballad of Flight 191 " about a plane crash, "Daley's Gone", "Unemployed", "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over", and "The Election Year Rag", were used on the air before the series was cancelled. Goodman wrote and performed many humorous songs about Chicago, including three about the Chicago Cubs : " A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request ", "When the Cubs Go Marching In" and " Go, Cubs, Go " (which has frequently been played on Cubs broadcasts and at Wrigley Field after Cubs wins). He wrote "Go, Cubs, Go" out of spite after then GM Dallas Green called "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" too depressing. The Cubs songs grew out of his fanatical devotion to
3996-404: The song.) For her next studio album, Collins turned to a project that was both personal and familiar, a set of Bob Dylan covers titled Judy Sings Dylan... Just Like a Woman . Released in 1993, the album was a commercial success and reminded fans she was still active and in fine voice. In 1994, she issued her first Christmas album , Come Rejoice! A Judy Collins Christmas . It would prove to be
4070-444: The songs, such as the prison lament "Revenge" and "Living on the Run," play up to the outlaw image, while "Spotlight" explores the lonely wasted existence of a country singer. ("Roll me a smoke, give me some coke...") and advises the press, "Don't waste your time or your flashbulbs, too many heroes are dead." (In the same AllMusic review, Thom Jurek contends the song "sums up the way he views his life at this particular juncture, and given
4144-477: The team, which included many clubhouse and on-field visits with Cubs players. He wrote other songs about Chicago, including "The Lincoln Park Pirates", about the notorious Lincoln Towing Service , and "Daley's Gone", about Mayor Richard J. Daley . Another comic highlight is "Vegematic", about a man who falls asleep while watching late-night TV and dreams he ordered many products that he saw on infomercials . He could also write serious songs, most notably "My Old Man",
4218-422: The test of time.” All Songs written by David Allan Coe except where noted. Steve Goodman Steven Benjamin Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago . He wrote the song " City of New Orleans ", which was recorded by artists including Arlo Guthrie , John Denver , The Highwaymen , and Judy Collins . In 1985, Goodman received
4292-702: The tribute album Born to the Breed in 2008. In the same year, she received an honorary doctorate from Pratt Institute . The tribute albums Tom Thumb's Blues: A Tribute to Judy Collins and Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins appeared in 2000 and 2008, respectively. In 2010, Collins sang "The Weight of the World" at the Newport Folk Festival , a song by Amy Speace . Another memoir from Collins, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music , appeared
4366-548: The two albums, she bared her soul in another book, Cravings: How I Conquered Food, where she opened up about her difficult relationship with food and her years of dealing with eating disorders . In 2019, she released the album Winter Stories , a collaboration with Norwegian singer Jonas Fjeld and the North Carolina country-folk quartet Chatham County Line . In 2022, she released her first studio album of all original material, entitled Spellbound . Collins joined
4440-498: The years. She also recorded songs by singer-songwriters such as Eric Andersen , Fred Neil , Ian Tyson , Joni Mitchell , Randy Newman , Robin Williamson , and Richard Fariña long before they gained national acclaim. Collins' first few studio albums consisted of straightforward guitar-based folk songs, but with her fifth studio album In My Life (1966), she began branching out to include works from such diverse sources as
4514-486: Was a folk song. Collins studied classical piano with Antonia Brico , making her public debut at age 13 performing Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos . She also played Chopin , Debussy , and Rachmaninoff as a child. Brico took a dim view of her developing interest in folk music, which led her to the difficult decision to discontinue her piano lessons. Years later, after she became known internationally, she invited Brico to one of her concerts in Denver. When they met after
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#17327868802414588-661: Was a song he didn't write: " The Dutchman ", written by Michael Peter Smith . He reached a wider audience as the opening act for Steve Martin while Martin was at the height of his stand-up popularity. During the mid and late seventies, Goodman became a regular guest on Easter Sunday on Vin Scelsa 's radio show in New York City. Scelsa's personal recordings of these sessions eventually led to an album of selections from these appearances, The Easter Tapes . In 1977, Goodman performed on Tom Paxton 's live album New Songs From
4662-623: Was also released. Later, Cher recorded "Fires of Eden" for her 1991 studio album Love Hurts . Other songs from Fires of Eden include "The Blizzard", "Home Before Dark", and a cover of the Hollies song – " The Air That I Breathe ". That same year saw the release of a pair of children's albums, Baby's Morningtime and Baby's Bedtime . Collins performed at President Bill Clinton 's first inauguration in 1993, singing " Amazing Grace " and " Chelsea Morning ". (The Clintons have stated that they named their daughter, Chelsea , after her recording of
4736-465: Was born the eldest of five siblings in Seattle where she lived for the first ten years of her life. Her father, Chuck Collins (a blind singer, pianist, and radio show host) took a job in Denver in 1949 and the family moved there. Her grandfather on her father's side was Irish. Judy Collins contracted polio at the age of 11 and spent two months in isolation in a hospital. She grew up listening to
4810-470: Was during this time he discovered the cause of his continuous fatigue was actually leukemia . This led him to drop out of school again to pursue his music full-time. In September 1969 he met Nancy Pruter (sister of R&B writer Robert Pruter ), who was attending college and working as a waitress. They were married in February 1970. Though he experienced periods of remission, Goodman never felt that he
4884-440: Was living on anything other than borrowed time, and some critics, listeners and friends have said that his music reflects this sentiment. His wife, writing in the liner notes to the posthumous collection No Big Surprise , characterized him this way: Basically, Steve was exactly who he appeared to be: an ambitious, well-adjusted man from a loving, middle-class Jewish home in the Chicago suburbs, whose life and talent were directed by
4958-501: Was married to Peter Taylor in 1958 and they had her only child, Clark C. Taylor, who was born the same year. The marriage ended in divorce in 1965. In April 1996, she married industrial designer Louis Nelson , whom she had been seeing since April 1978. They live in New York City . In 1962, shortly after her debut at Carnegie Hall , Collins was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was in a sanatorium for six months recuperating. She
5032-767: Was released in 1961 and consisted of traditional folk songs . She had her first charting single with "Hard Lovin' Loser" (No. 97) from her fifth studio album In My Life (1966), but it was the lead single from her sixth studio album Wildflowers (1967), " Both Sides, Now " – written by Joni Mitchell – that gave her international prominence. The single reached No. 8 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and won Collins her first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance . She enjoyed further success with her recordings of " Someday Soon ", " Chelsea Morning " (also written by Mitchell), " Amazing Grace ", " Turn! Turn! Turn! ", and "Cook with Honey". Collins experienced
5106-542: Was romantically involved at the time. (She was the inspiration for Stills's CSN classic " Suite: Judy Blue Eyes ".) Time Goes had a mellow country sound and included Ian Tyson 's " Someday Soon " and the title track, written by the UK singer-songwriter Sandy Denny . The album also featured Collins' composition "My Father" and one of the first covers of Leonard Cohen's " Bird on the Wire ". Two of Collins' songs (" Who Knows Where
5180-492: Was still somewhat of an outsider, almost too outlaw for the outlaws, a predicament summed up well by Thom Jurek in his AllMusic review of the LP: His wild, long hair; multiple earrings; flashy, glitzy rhinestone suits; Harley Davidson biker boots; and football-sized belt buckles had become obstacles to getting people to take him seriously as a recording artist. Other singers continued to record and succeed with his material, but
5254-478: Was summed up well in the title track of Longhaired Redneck , which recounts playing in a dive "where bikers stare at cowboys who are laughing at the hippies who are praying they'll get out of here alive." The song, which has an unmistakable rock swagger, features Coe performing an impressive imitation of Ernest Tubb , making it irretrievably country as well, illustrating the dichotomy of what was being referred to as "progressive" country music. Coe later explained, "It
5328-476: Was sung by famous Israeli singer Yehoram Gaon in 1977 and became an immediate hit. Lyrically, the French, Dutch, German and Hebrew versions bear no resemblance to Goodman's original lyrics. According to Goodman, the song was inspired by a train trip he and his wife took from Chicago to Mattoon, Illinois . According to the liner notes on the Steve Goodman anthology No Big Surprise , "City of New Orleans"
5402-439: Was terminology that I'd made up at the time. I was trying to tell people that not everybody with long hair was a hippie. Not everyone was the kind of person that thought you could punch them out, take their money and that they'd say, 'I won't do nothin' about it.'" The song is also an early example of Coe's penchant for namedropping, as he mentions Merle Haggard and proclaims " Johnny Cash helped me get out of prison." Several of
5476-405: Was written while on the campaign trail with Senator Edmund Muskie . In 1974, singer David Allan Coe achieved considerable success on the country charts with Goodman's and John Prine's " You Never Even Called Me by My Name ", a song which good-naturedly spoofed stereotypical country music lyrics. Prine refused to take a songwriter's credit for the song, although Goodman bought Prine a jukebox as
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