![]() ![]() ![]() Intrigued by the depth and complexity of both his voice and his words, Collins went on to not only record many of Cohen’s songs, but also played a large role in convincing him that he was a fine singer in his own right.įor a while, the two artists worked in a kind of symbiosis. Then in his early thirties and an acclaimed but poorly selling poet and novelist, Cohen arrived in New York to try and sell some songs that he had written. The story of how Collins found her own voice as a songwriter is the stuff of folk legends, and it all started in 1966 with a visit from Leonard Cohen. Especially when you consider that it wasn’t until her sixth album, Wildflowers, that she started to compose. “That’s not a bad bet at all,” she tells me proudly over the phone from her hotel room in Chicago. ![]() She counts around sixty of her own songs over the years, scattered across her various albums. Not that Collins has been a slouch in the songwriting department. It’s a purple patch that started with 2017’s Silver Skies Blues, a duo project with Ari Hest, and continued with last year’s intensely personal Spellbound – her 29th studio album and, incredibly, the first to include entirely her own songs. Now 83 and still touring relentlessly, the folk icon is in the midst of a particularly dazzling career renaissance. Collins made her first live appearance 70 years ago, performing a Mozart concerto in Denver, Colorado, where she studied piano under the critical eye of classical music pioneer Antonia Brico. ![]()
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