The season marked the release of her latest album, Winter Stories, and concluded Collins’s year-long Vanguard Award and Residency, an acknowledgment of her influence and legacy. “I’m so lucky that all those terrible sins of the past didn’t do me in,” she told me, as she prepared for a sold-out ten-day residency at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in Greenwich Village. The hair is no longer chestnut but the famous eyes are as big and blue as ever and her luminous smile reaches them. But the past 40 years have been clean and fulfilling. All this and decades of serious drinking. She’s survived polio, TB, depression and attempts to take her own life, and the suicide of her only child. Her long career is something of a miracle. Like her friend and contemporary, Joan Baez, she continued to sing and record but struggled in the 1980s and ’90s. In the 1960s and early ’70s, she was a regular visitor, easily filling the Royal Albert Hall. Next month, Judy Collins arrives in Britain for her first tour in decades, a dozen dates beginning at the newly refurbished Grand Central Hall in Liverpool. Judy Collins with Stephen Stills at Big Sur, Hot Springs 1968
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