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Hey y'all it's Justin Richmond.

To kick off our celebration of Women's History Month,

we have the great singer and interpreter of song Judy Collins.

What 82 years old is in the midst of a creative shift in the way she works.

Collins made her name during the 60s folk revival covering songs by other artists,

like Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, using her crisp soprano to transform them.

But this year, for the first time in her career,

she's released an album written entirely by herself.

The album's called Spellbound,

and the music feels right at home with some of the best in her catalog.

Here's her song when I was a girl in Colorado,

a sweet ode to the beautiful land of the West,

nestled between soft pedal steel.

Judy Collins has managed to retain the vibrancy in her voice

that made her a commodity all those years ago in the East Village

and has kept pushing the bounds of her creativity.

She tells Bruce Hadlam on today's episode about her recent burst of activity,

which not only includes this album, but five others.

That's six in the last six years.

They also discuss her work in relationship with Leonard Cohen

and how she actually lived the rugged life that peers like Dylan could only sing about.

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