Stills & Collins - Everybody Knows (2017)
Stephen Stills & Judy Collins - Everybody Knows (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 271 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 94 Mb | 00:40:50
Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Cleopatra Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 271 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 94 Mb | 00:40:50
Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Cleopatra Records
2017 release. Together at last! Two folk legends of Laurel Canyon's countercultural music scene join forces on this gorgeous album of all new recordings! Features captivating versions of classic tunes by fellow folk icons Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen plus a few of their own compositions!Tracklist:
Stephen Stills and Judy Collins' duo album, Everybody Knows, marks the long-deferred continuation of a story that started nearly half a century ago. But the title track brings closure to a musical relationship that goes even farther back.
Stills was romantically involved with Collins around the time Crosby, Stills, and Nash started in 1968, but the couple split before the recording of CSN's 1969 debut album. That record's opening song, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," was Stills' bittersweet look back at the relationship. Not only did it aid the trio's ascent to stardom (the fledgling group's performance of the tune is a highlight of the iconic Woodstock documentary), it became a classic-rock radio staple forevermore.
So Collins, 78, and Stills, 72, reuniting after all these years to sing together for the first time on record represents one level of denouement. But their version of "Everybody Knows" closes yet another circle: the one surrounding Collins and the song's author, Leonard Cohen.
In 1966, when Cohen and Collins first met, he was an established poet but a fledgling songwriter with no intentions of singing. Collins was so floored by his song "Suzanne" that she put it on her hit album In My Life that year, effectively putting Cohen on the map. Soon after, she encouraged him to perform his own songs, notably by dragging him onstage to sing "Suzanne" at her Town Hall concert in New York. Without her support, Cohen might never have had a career.
Collins recorded Cohen's songs all throughout her discography, even releasing an entire album of them in 2004. But her recording of "Everybody Knows" with Stills marks the first time she's covered Cohen posthumously. So it's almost impossible not to hear it at least partly as a kind of eulogy, coming as it does just months after his passing.
"Everybody Knows" originally appeared on Cohen's 1988 "comeback" album, I'm Your Man. Like so many of Cohen's greatest songs, it takes a wide-angle view of the human condition by expertly blending neck-deep desolation and regret with an acidic sense of humor. In the world "Everybody Knows" describes, corruption and deceit are a given in every walk of life, and the only sensible response is an all-encompassing weltschmerz. But when the sentiments get the blackest, the pitch-dark humor emerges to keep things from dipping completely into the abyss, with lines like "Everybody got this broken feeling / Like their father or their dog just died."
Neither Collins nor Stills is known for employing sarcasm or apocalyptic irony in their work. Their songs are generally imbued with a fair degree of earnestness and taken at face value; it's part of what has helped them communicate so powerfully to so many people throughout the decades. So it's all the more remarkable that the duo is able to deliver the song in an utter deadpan style so effectively.
As Stills and Collins wind their voices around the song's incantatory, minor-key melody in a hypnotic, almost spooky, harmony, the depth and gravity of Cohen's observations gain easier access to the soul than a more gothic, angst-ridden treatment might allow. It's not hard to imagine Collins taking that aforementioned "broken feeling" very much to heart regarding the still-fresh absence of her old friend, which, for all of the performance's straightforwardness, adds a soupçon of pathos to the proceedings. Collins and Stills aren't just whistling through the graveyard Cohen created here — they're proud pied pipers.
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Judy Collins provided Stephen Stills with the inspiration for "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," a song he composed in 1969 as their relationship was coming to an end. Lovers no more, the two remained friends over the years and decided to strike up a musical partnership nearly 50 years later, releasing Everybody Knows in September of 2017. The album deliberately plays off their past, with the duo reviving songs from their individual albums – "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" from Collins; "So Begins the Task" from Stills – and selecting covers from their peers, including the Traveling Wilburys' "Handle with Care," Tim Hardin's "Reason to Believe," Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country," and Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows," which also lends its name to the album title. It's a clean and crisp production, so much so that its transparency reveals the disparity between Collins' sweet voice and Stills' scraggly singing, a pairing that can sound as smooth as sandpaper. Nevertheless, there's an inherent warmth to Everybody Knows. Stills and Collins have a gentle, easy chemistry and the studio-slick supporting performances provide a nice bed for a project that is less nostalgia than a reassuring reminder of the comfort of growing old together. - AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
01. Handle with Care 03:43
02. So Begins the Task 03:35
03. River of Gold 03:36
04. Judy 04:03
05. Everybody Knows 05:26
06. Houses 04:36
07. Reason to Believe 02:57
08. Girl from the North Country 03:26
09. Who Knows Where the Time Goes 05:40
10. Questions 03:44
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Stills & Collins / Everybody Knows
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