How did she and Stills manage to remain close even after breaking up romantically? Mostly by keeping the lines of communication continually open, said Judy Collins. “Well,” said Collins, “we’ve had a lot of practice, and we love what we do.” I’ll be 62 in November, and I can only hope that in ten or fifteen years my speaking voice (let alone singing!) will be in anything like as good condition. Collins and Stills are both in their 70s now. Now, a half century later, Judy Collins and Stephen Stills have finally recorded a CD together called “Everybody Knows.” And they’re in the middle of a national tour that will bring them to Springfield’s Gillioz Theatre, 325 Park Central East, for a concert Thursday September 20 at 7:00pm.Ī few weeks ago I talked with Judy Collins by phone from her home base in New York, and the first thing I felt compelled to tell her was that, having listened to the album, “you two both sound terrific!” She sounded quite pleased to hear it. But the friendship between Collins and Stills has endured for more than fifty years. It didn’t last, though it did inspire one of the best known songs of the era, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” written by Stills and performed by him, along with his then-bandmates David Crosby and Graham Nash. Judy Collins and Stephen Stills had a famous-and, as both readily acknowledge, tumultuous-romance in the late 1960s.

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