Chuck Collins This is Me

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1. 1. 11.01.02 Avalon provides setting for Collins Sunday night

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   Published on: 11/1/2002   Last Visited: 11/1/2002

   Collins was born May 1, 1939, in Seattle.
   
   She also spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles and Denver.
   
   In 1961 Collins got her first big break at a Greenwich Village venue, The Village Gate, when she was approached by Jac Holzman, president of Elektra Records, who offered her a recording contract.
   
   She recorded her first album, "A Maid Of Constant Sorrow," in one day.
   
   Collins would stay with Elektra for the next 35 years.
   
   Collins continued making political poetry music and would become a household name in the folk genre for decades to come.
   
   "It's very simple," Collins told The Washington Post in a September 2001 interview. "I plan to be performing as long as the possibility is there."
   
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2. 2. judycollins.com

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   Published on: 9/28/2001   Last Visited: 5/29/2008

   The late Antonia Brico, one of the first women to make a career as a symphonic conductor, was an early mentor (Collins would repay the debt by producing the 1974 documentary "Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman").By the age of 13, she had made her professional debut as a pianist, playing a Mozart concerto."I credit my classical training with teaching me discipline -- how to practice and prepare -- and I doubt I would still be working if I didn't have that base," she said.
   
   But Collins found herself drawn increasingly toward folk music, and by the time she was 16 she had begun playing guitar and singing in the clubs of Denver and Boulder, gradually migrating east to New York, where she appeared at the Village Gate.It was there that she was heard -- and was immediately signed to a record contract -- by Jac Holzman, the founder of Elektra.Her first disc, a collection of folk standards, was recorded in only five hours.
   
   "I don't think we made one edit," Collins recalled.
   ...
   Collins is too hard on herself.Her singing on these first recordings is indeed more rough-hewn than on her later discs.Yet the talent is apparent and there is an intensity to the interpretations that is in some ways more winning than the seraphic mellowness that characterizes many of her later recordings.
   
   "I can't sing a nasty line," Collins said, almost apologetically.
   ...
   In addition to her early championship of Cohen, Collins was among the first to record songs by Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb and Joni Mitchell.
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   Collins named the late Teresa Sterne, who built Nonesuch Records into an enormously innovative label, as one of her heroes."Tracey was the only woman who ran her own record company, and she had a terrible time of it," Collins remembered.

3. 3. www.judycollins.com

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   Published on: 9/28/2001   Last Visited: 5/29/2008

   The late Antonia Brico, one of the first women to make a career as a symphonic conductor, was an early mentor (Collins would repay the debt by producing the 1974 documentary "Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman").By the age of 13, she had made her professional debut as a pianist, playing a Mozart concerto."I credit my classical training with teaching me discipline -- how to practice and prepare -- and I doubt I would still be working if I didn't have that base," she said.
   
   But Collins found herself drawn increasingly toward folk music, and by the time she was 16 she had begun playing guitar and singing in the clubs of Denver and Boulder, gradually migrating east to New York, where she appeared at the Village Gate.It was there that she was heard -- and was immediately signed to a record contract -- by Jac Holzman, the founder of Elektra.Her first disc, a collection of folk standards, was recorded in only five hours.
   
   "I don't think we made one edit," Collins recalled.
   ...
   Collins is too hard on herself.Her singing on these first recordings is indeed more rough-hewn than on her later discs.Yet the talent is apparent and there is an intensity to the interpretations that is in some ways more winning than the seraphic mellowness that characterizes many of her later recordings.
   
   "I can't sing a nasty line," Collins said, almost apologetically.
   ...
   In addition to her early championship of Cohen, Collins was among the first to record songs by Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb and Joni Mitchell.
   ...
   Collins named the late Teresa Sterne, who built Nonesuch Records into an enormously innovative label, as one of her heroes."Tracey was the only woman who ran her own record company, and she had a terrible time of it," Collins remembered.