Complicated song is about witness protection

РІР‚СљI have to turn the spotlight to the song and not treat it as my song but treat it as a song.РІР‚Сњ Yet she also believes a musician must find a way to make every song they sing entirely their own, whether they wrote it or not. Turning up-and-coming talents into household names with her pristine voice is РІР‚Сљkarmically what IРІР‚в„ўm supposed to do,РІР‚Сњ she says rather nonchalantly. )Р”Р„ teenage piano prodigy before picking up the guitar, Collins has always considered herself an РІР‚СљinterpreterРІР‚Сњ of music.

(SheРІР‚в„ўs also the inspiration for Crosby, Stills & NashРІР‚в„ўs iconic РІР‚СљSuite: Judy Blue Eyes,РІР‚Сњ hence the title of her juicy 2011 memoir. In the late РІР‚в„ў60s, she made the then-obscure Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell famous with her versions of РІР‚СљSuzanneРІР‚Сњ and РІР‚СљBoth Sides Now,РІР‚Сњ respectively her dreamy take on Stephen SondheimРІР‚в„ўs ballad РІР‚СљSend in the ClownsРІР‚Сњ from his show A Little Night Music became a major pop hit in 1975, winning the Grammy for Song of the Year and her a cappella rendition of РІР‚СљAmazing Grace,РІР‚Сњ from her 1970 album Whales & Nightingales, was selected in 2016 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress, making it the definitive version of the oft-recorded Christian hymn. (ItРІР‚в„ўs also her sixth album in six years.) РІР‚СљIn a way,РІР‚Сњ she jokes of the late-career milestone, РІР‚СљIРІР‚в„ўve had 50 years of practice to get it right.РІР‚СњР”В¬ollins might have been writing music for more than half a century, but sheРІР‚в„ўs best known for her skillful reinterpretations of other songwritersРІР‚в„ў work. After she released 28 studio albums over the span of six decades, the legendary folk singerРІР‚в„ўs latest LP, Spellbound, out February 25, marks her first record of original songs. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesР”Р„t 82, Judy Collins still has a few musical tricks up her sleeve.

Complicated song is about witness protection