Judy Sings Dylan Just Like a Woman [Import]

Judy Collins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 24, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Spectrum Audio UK
• ASIN: B00005YW0U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,151 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Like a Rolling Stone

2. It's All over Now, Baby Blue

3. Simple Twist of Fate

4. Sweetheart Like You

5. Gotta Serve Somebody

6. Dark Eyes

7. Love Minus Zero/No Limit

8. Just Like a Woman

9. I Believe in You

10. With God on Our Side

11. Bob Dylan's Dream

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good-bye yellow brick road, Judy's back in Kansas, August 24, 2000

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Thomas Lapins (Orlando, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Judy Sings Dylan Just Like a Woman (Audio CD)

Sometimes an album cover tells it all, and if this cover was true to the music, I knew it was going to be an outstanding collection. The monochrome brick road with the dingy factory-like buildings on each side, and here's Judy looking smart and weathered and a little cocky. It seemed she had something to say to her fans, and she sure did. Her voice was ripe, ready and within range (which it isn't always) on all these Dylan songs. "Like A Rolling Stone" took guts to re-record. Who can top Dylan's sarcastic to the point original? no one! However, she puts her own melodic sarcastic spin on it with great success. She gave this one some wings. I never get tired of hearing a new version of this one. This version is one of the best interpretations. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "Simple Twist Of Fate" had a Joan Baez quality (I say that as a great compliment). These recordings could have been late 60's/early 70's hits. They would have been classics today had they been recorded back then. "Sweetheart Like You" and "Gotta Serve Somebody" take her to a place she doesn't usually go. The "monochrome brick road" on the album cover is captured in these two songs. Rougher and rawer than I thought she could do well. "Dark Eyes" doesn't measure up to the rest. Probably because the others are simply that good. "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" is classic Judy. She exceeds Dylan on this one. "Just Like A Woman" and "I Believe In You" are quieter than the rest of the other songs but make this album what it is: a superior collection and tribute to Dylan and his music. "With God On Our Side" is a tough song to do. Baez did the best version. However, this is right behind Baez's version. What this version lacks in poignance is mades up by its angelic hauntingly beautiful interpretation, especially the last note, one of her finest moments. "Bob Dylan's Dream" is another one she does better than Dylan. I can really appreciate the lyrics. She's clear and crisp in a way that allows you to sit back and take it all in and really savor the words and the lyrics. I really believe this collection would be a classic today if it had come out in the early 70's. But then, some of these songs hadn't been written yet. However, the texture doesn't fit the high tech digital world of the 90's. Maybe that makes this collection more significant.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Judy Sings Just Like A Memory!, July 16, 2002

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Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Judy Sings Dylan Just Like a Woman (Audio CD)

This is really a lovely album by a more mature Judy Collins, who is still in full voice and ready to rock and roll a little around the edges in delivering what she characterizes as an open love letter to Bob Dylan and his music. Like a number of notable others like Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Tom Rush, and Peter, Paul, And Mary, Judy was around to watch as Bob Dylan emerged from obscurity to become the voice and the conscience of a generation. This, then, is her tribute to that phenomenon. Her choice of songs to use to celebrate him is telling in and of itself.

She opens with "Like A Rolling Stone", delivered in a jazzy folk style that really is a quite novel interpretation of the much-recorded song. Next is "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", followed by a "Simple Twist Of Fate", delivered in a more traditional folk style. Her selections range from the very well known, such as "Just Like A Woman" and "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" to the more obscure, such as "Sweetheart Like You" and "Dark Eyes". I especially like her interpretation of "Gotta Serve Someone", from Dylan's brief born-again phase, and the reworking of "With God On Our Side", a song made famous by Joan Baez in the early 1960s. All in all, this album turns out to be exactly what Judy claims she wanted it to be, a very personal expression of love and admiration for the work of a man with amazing songwriting talents and a very sustained career that now stretches over some forty years. Enjoy!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Judy should have done this 25 years ago..., March 21, 2002

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William E. Adams (Midland, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Judy Sings Dylan Just Like a Woman (Audio CD)

I like six of these 11 choices a great deal. The other five seem elongated unneccessarily, over-produced, and even pretentious. But maybe I have lived too long with Judy and Bob being important to me. I have owned Dylan on record since early 1963 and Collins later the same year. I am not a completist, but I have had probably ten Dylan albums and seven Collins' records in my collections at times. I saw Judy live three separate times in the 60's. I have also owned collections of Bob's songs by Baez and by several others. I suppose I am just a grouchy geezer now, but I prefer the output each artist had before 1970 to the material I have heard from them since that time. All that said, this CD is a good value for the price if you like either one or both. Sometimes, Dylan's own version of his song is the only one that works, and sometimes his own rendition is the worst one you'll hear. At least with Judy, you can comprehend all the words. She has a nice backing band here, but fans will endlessly quibble about the song choices, which seem, from the booklet, to be Judy's own favorites. I love the way she decided to present "Simple Twist of Fate" and "With God on Our Side" and "Just Like a Woman". I strongly like "I Believe in You" and "Bob Dylan's Dream." The other choices I either like Bob's own version better, or Joan Baez' version, which is available on the CD "Baez Sings Dylan" on Vanguard. All three were friends, once, in the days before stardom and in its first glow. Judy's album of Dylan songs came out in 1993. The Baez collection is a reissue from 1968 and earlier. Real fans will find it interesting to compare the two products. Judy includes four of Dylan's later songs along with seven from his first decade of work. This is not a bad issue, and with repeated listening I will most likely come to like it more...but it does not make a person sit up and say "Wow!", when, with some different songs, performed more with gusto than with an "artsy" concept, it might have done just that.