She is pop radio on rainy Saturday afternoons. Her voice takes me to the milky, muted greens and blues of my childhood in Oregon and on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in the early – late 70’s. Judy Collins’s music conjures up different images. Judy was his inspiration, his muse, the older woman who broke his heart. How could I not read Judy Collins’s memoir Sweet Judy Blue Eyes? Stephen Stills vividly captured the passion and pain of their love affair in his joyful, yet plaintive epic song. Each time I hear this song, I feel I missed the best part of a generation. It is "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", first performed by Crosby, Stills and Nash on Augat Yasgur’s farm, two weeks before I was born. It never fails to transport me to a time beyond my memory, a place that now fades into American mythology: California, late 1960's. It has always been one of my favorite songs. The sweet chords in E pour forth from Stephen Stills's guitar, sounding like early morning California sunshine feels: warm and flirtatious, dancing on an ocean breeze as it kisses you awake. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music by Judy Collins
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