Bohemian

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Album Information

Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 43:54

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Six Degrees of The Byrds’ Fifth Dimension

By Kevin Whitehead, eMusic Contributor

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »

They Say All Music Guide

Released to coincide with the iconic folksinger’s 2011 memoir, Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Bohemian finds Judy Collins revisiting the late-’60s California music scene. Driven by her signature effortless soprano, the album features four new original cuts (“Morocco,” “Wings of Angels,” “In the Twilight,” and “Big Sur”) along with seven covers, including “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Joni Mitchell’s “Cactus Tree,” the latter of which finds the seemingly ageless Collins sharing vocal duties with Shawn Colvin. Elsewhere, Collins deftly tackles the Woody Guthrie workers ballad “Pastures of Plenty” and Jimmy Webb’s lively “Campo de Encino,” and offers up a lovely and austere rendition of the traditional lullaby “All the Pretty Horses.” – James Christopher Monger

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