True Stories and Other Dreams
1973 studio album by Judy Collins
True Stories and Other Dreams | ||||
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Studio album by Judy Collins | ||||
Released | January 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1972 | |||
Studio | The Record Plant, New York City | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 40:17 | |||
Label | Elektra | |||
Producer | Mark Abramson | |||
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True Stories and Other Dreams is the ninth studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1973.[1] It peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.[2]
The album included Valerie Carter's "Cook With Honey", which returned Collins to the U.S. pop singles top-forty, as well as Tom Paxton's song "The Hostage" about the 1971 Attica Prison riots. It also included a number of Collins' own compositions, including "The Fisherman Song", which she would later perform on Sesame Street.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Judy Collins; except where indicated
- "Cook With Honey" (Valerie Carter) – 3:29
- "So Begins the Task" (Stephen Stills) – 3:11
- "Fishermen Song" – 3:56
- "The Dealer (Down and Losin')" (Bob Ruzicka) – 3:55
- "Secret Gardens" – 5:30
- "Holly Ann" – 4:47
- "The Hostage" (Tom Paxton) – 2:52
- "Song for Martin" – 5:05
- "Che" – 7:32
Personnel
- Judy Collins – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards
- Bob Daugherty – bass
- Russell George – bass
- Bill Keith – steel guitar
- Louis Killen – concertina
- Steve Mandell – guitar
- Jerry Matthews – guitar
- Ray Barretto – conga
- Don Brooks – harmonica
- Larry Packer – fiddle
- Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar
- Paul Prestopino – harp
- Allan Schwartzberg – drums, percussion
- Eric Weissberg – guitar, banjo, bass
Production notes
- Produced by Mark Abramson
- Engineered by Shelly Yakus and Jay Messina
References
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- A Maid of Constant Sorrow (1961)
- Golden Apples of the Sun (1962)
- Judy Collins #3 (1963)
- Fifth Album (1965)
- In My Life (1966)
- Wildflowers (1967)
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968)
- Whales & Nightingales (1970)
- True Stories and Other Dreams (1973)
- Judith (1975)
- Bread and Roses (1976)
- Hard Times for Lovers (1979)
- Running for My Life (1980)
- Times of Our Lives (1982)
- Home Again (1984)
- Fires of Eden (1990)
- Voices (1995)
- Portrait of an American Girl (2005)
- Judy Collins Sings Lennon and McCartney (2007)
- Silver Skies Blue with Ari Hest (2016)
- A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim (2017)
- Everybody Knows with Stephen Stills (2017)
- Winter Stories with Jonas Fjeld and Chatham County Line (2019)
- Spellbound (2022)
- The Judy Collins Concert (1964)
- Living (1971)
- Sanity and Grace (1989)
- Colors of the Day (1972)
- So Early in the Spring (1977)
- Forever: An Anthology (1997)
- Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy (2004)
- White Bird: Anthology of Favorites (2021)
- "Both Sides, Now"
- "Someday Soon"
- "Chelsea Morning"
- Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
- Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins
- Stephen Stills
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