McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) -- In some ways, the career of folk empress Judy Collins has come full circle. Take her performance residency last spring. For six weeks, she performed at the Cafe Carlyle in New York. The venue was vastly more upscale than the Greenwich Village clubs where Collins performed during the formative years of her extensive career, but its sense of immediacy and intimacy wa...
This is a better-late-than-never post, since I'm three days late. But I only got what I think is an exact date this morning. On March 4, 1967, I attended my very first concert. My brother took me to see Judy Collins at the Berkeley Community Theater. I was thirteen years old, and needed new glasses, which meant I couldn't see the stage as clearly as I would have liked … and I would have liked q.
This is a better-late-than-never post, since I'm three days late. But I only got what I think is an exact date this morning. On March 4, 1967, I attended my very first concert. My brother took me to see Judy Collins at the Berkeley Community Theater. I was thirteen years old, and needed new glasses, which meant I couldn't see the stage as clearly as I would have liked … and I would have liked q.
I didn't buy the "Vanguard: Roots of Folk" 3 CD set for this artist, but she snuck in just the same. The Byrds conquered the Rock airwaves with their version, but this one "feels like home." Between dead batteries that need an overnight charge, telephone your-car-warranty-has-expired phishers, and things that break while being shaped, here's something to put it all in perspective.
The following veteran artists have posted new touring dates (number of new shows in parenthesis followed by geographic location of new dates):Bon Jovi (7) - Europe, CanadaLynyrd Skynyrd (7) - U.S., U.K.Marshall Tucker Band (5) - U.S.George Thorogood & the Destroyers (7) - Middle & Southern U.S.Timothy B. Schmit (7) - West Coast U.S.Judy Collins (31) - U.S., U.K.Jose Feliciano (6) - U.S.David Al...
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) -- In some ways, the career of folk empress Judy Collins has come full circle. Take her performance residency last spring. For six weeks, she performed at the Cafe Carlyle in New York. The venue was vastly more upscale than the Greenwich Village clubs where Collins performed during the formative years of her extensive career, but its sense of immediacy and intimacy wa...