Folk activist Judy Collins revisits her first live album
OSU forward having big year despite leg injuries
NEW YORK – When she was 24, folk singer Judy Collins went onstage in New York City to record her first live concert and maybe inspire social change. Last month, she returned to the same stage to do the whole thing again.
Collins recreated her legendary concert hall debut at The Town Hall from March 21, 1964, recorded on the cusp of Freedom Summer. The encore edition came just months after another turbulent summer, with protests against police brutality.
“We’ve come a long way, but we haven’t come very far,” the now 81-yearold tells The Associated Press. “We always have to be awake. We can’t go to sleep.”
There was no audience when Collins returned to the 1,500-seat The Town Hall because of COVD-19 fears, but a stream of the new concert will be available Feb. 12 as well as a vinyl album.
Collins was a rising star in the world of folk music when she recorded the concert, which would become the album “The Judy Collins Concert.” She was not yet writing her own songs and instead interpreting tunes from the likes of Bob Dylan and Billy Edd Wheeler with her shimmering soprano.
Collins performed three Wheeler songs – “Winter Sky,” “Red-winged Blackbird” and “Coal Tattoo” – and three from Tom Paxton – “The Last Thing on My Mind,” “My Ramblin’ Boy” and “Bottle of Wine” – as well as Dylan’s haunting “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.”
“I have always tried from the very beginning to record songs that I felt were going to be timeless,” she says. “These hold up.”
There were songs about coal miners, reproductive rights, yearning for freedom, racial injustice and a lullaby for Medgar Evers’ son. Later that summer in 1964, Collins would travel through Mississippi trying to register people to vote.
“Life is always full of conflict, forever and ever,” she says. “It’s also full of opportunity and beauty and blessings of art. And that’s why we have to get reminded of that throughout history.”
Collins wasn’t daunted by a lack of audience on her recent return to The Town Hall. “Oh, no, I can do it any way – standing on my head, sitting in the bathtub, sitting up from a deep sleep. The singing and the performing are so natural to me,” she says. “I love it.”
When asked if she changed the arrangements after 57 years, she laughed: “I sang them like Judy Collins. People may complain, but that’s their business.”
Someone who was in the audience during the Jan. 19 taping – and someone very happy to be there – was Melay Araya, artistic director of The Town Hall.
“The way that she fills up that space is really unlike many artists,” she says. “I hope people at home can feel that. I hope people at home can feel that level of intimacy because it was really unbelievable. I have goosebumps.”
Collins peppers the new concert with personal stories interweaved with ones about The Town Hall, which is celebrating its centennial this year. One of the songs – “Me and My Uncle” – has a fascinating history.
John Phillips, then the leader of The
Journeymen and later of the Mamas & the Papas, wrote the song and played it one night when both he and Collins were high on acid.
“I was stoned to the eyeballs, but I remembered all of that song and I went home and worked on it and practiced it and put it on the record,” she recalls. “And he said, ‘I don’t remember writing that song.’”
After that first recorded concert, Collins would go on to write her own songs and win a Grammy. Her signature songs include “Both Sides Now” from her hit album “Wildflowers” and her take on “Send in the Clowns.” She inspired a folk-rock classic, the 1969 Crosby, Stills and Nash hit “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.”
At The Town Hall encore show, Collins added to the setlist “Both Sides Now,” “Anathea,” “Amazing Grace” and Jimmy Webb’s song “Highwayman.” She picks them like she picks all of them – by connection.
“I don’t take a song apart and say this and that and the other thing or try to analyze it. It’s how it affects me emotionally at the beginning, middle and end,” she says.
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Outwardly, there really would be no way to know what Kyle Young has been going through.
Last Thursday, the senior forward on the Ohio State men’s basketball team battled reigning Big Ten player of the year Luka Garza and was one of three Buckeyes to finish with 16 points in a win at Iowa.
Four nights later, at Maryland, Young upped that performance with a careerhigh 18 points to lead No. 4 Ohio State past the Terrapins for the team’s fifth straight win.
That much was all televised. The three practices in between weren’t, which meant the fact that Young was able to participate in only one of them might come as a surprise to anyone outside the program, given his performance against the Terrapins.
After battling lower-leg injuries during each of the past two seasons, Young continues to do so while also putting together the most statistically impactful season of his career.
“He could not practice after going against Garza like he did,” OSU coach Chris Holtmann said Monday. “He needed two full days off because his legs were too sore, so he was only able to go one day before we played (Maryland).”
In games, the pain hasn’t slowed Young. His averages of 8.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 26.0 minutes per game are all career-high totals. After shooting 13.8% (4 for 29) from three-point range through his first three seasons, Young is
8 for 21 (38.1%) this season, including 7 for 14 (50.0%) in Big Ten play.
His growth has come against the backdrop of an abnormal offseason due to the COVID-19 pandemic and what is essentially a minutes restriction in practice to keep him as healthy as possible for the Buckeyes’ next game.
“One of a kind, man,” junior guard Duane Washington Jr. said of his teammate. “Kyle Young is the hardestworking dude, hardest-playing player I’ve ever played with. I always tell people if I had to go with one guy to go into a tussle with, I’m picking Kyle Young.
“And off the court, he’s the sweetest dude. He’s a kind, loving dude.”
His opponents might not share the same sentiment, at least on the court. Young’s ability to impact the game with his high-energy plays, often in the form of offensive rebounds, has consistently frustrated Big Ten coaches who have drawn up game plans to stop his teammates and instead watched as the Canton native makes his presence felt.
Monday night, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon spoke of planning to stop shooters Justin Ahrens and Washington as the Buckeyes eventually took control with their play in the post. Thirteen of Young’s 18 points came after halftime.
“(I’m) just trying to let the game come to me,” Young said. “When you’re out there playing hard and letting the game come to you, good things will happen.”
He is, however, starting to hear the clock ticking. Ohio State is scheduled to host Indiana on Saturday, one of its final six regular-season games on the schedule.
A four-year career that was initially supposed to be played with Holtmann at Butler is approaching the finish line.
As long as Young’s body allows, he’ll be out there.
“I’ve been through a lot with these guys,” he said. “A bunch of different teams with different guys on it. As my time here is winding down you don’t want to take anything for granted and you want to play as hard as you can every time you step on the floor. I try to go into every game and give everything I’ve got regardless of how my body feels.” ajardy@dispatch.com @Adamjardy
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' run from the wild card to Super Bowl champions was a remarkable one.
Tom Brady and the Bucs became the first team to beat three former Super Bowl MVP quarterbacks on the way to the title, defeating Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes in successive games.
Tampa Bay became the seventh wildcard team to win it all and the first since the 2010 Green Bay Packers. The Bucs were the first team to win four playoff games on the way to the title since AFC North champion Baltimore did it eight years ago.
The Bucs scored at least 30 points in all four wins, becoming the first team to do that in NFL history. There had been 10 previous champs to score at least 30 in every playoff game, with the 1966 Packers the first to do it in the two postseason games they played that season.
There had been nine other teams that did it in all three playoff games, including the Chiefs last season and Brady's New England Patriots in the 2016 season.
The Bucs also reached 30 points in their final three regular-season games, giving them the eighth streak since the merger with at least seven straight 30point games. The last team to do that was the Broncos, who had a 12-game streak in 2012-13.
No touchdowns
The Bucs did something no college or NFL team had done before by keeping Patrick Mahomes' squad out of the end zone for an entire game.
The Chiefs had scored at least one TD in every game Mahomes played and Texas Tech did the same in his college career.
This marked just the third time in Chiefs history that they failed to score a TD in a playoff game, also losing 17-0 to the Chargers on Jan. 2, 1993, and 41-6 to the Raiders on Dec. 22, 1968.
Kansas City was just the third team to fail to score a TD in a Super Bowl, with the Rams also doing it two years ago in a 13-3 loss to New England and the Dolphins in a 24-3 loss to Dallas in Super Bowl 6.
Playoff Lenny
Leonard Fournette finished off an impressive playoff run by gaining 135 yards from scrimmage and scoring a TD for Tampa Bay.
Fournette had 448 yards from scrimmage and four touchdowns in the postseason, marking the 10th time a player has had at least 400 yards and four TDS. Emmitt Smith is the only player to do it twice, pulling the feat off in back-to-back years in the 1992-93 seasons.
The last player to do it before Fournette was Giants receiver Hakeem Nicks, who had 444 yards and four TDS in the 2011 season.
Fournette also joined Terrell Davis (1997 season) and Larry Fitzgerald (2008) as the only players to score in four playoff games in a single postseason.
Brady bunch: Brady's seventh title and first in Tampa Bay helped a whole new set of his teammates win a Super Bowl ring.
There have now been 261 players who have appeared in a Super Bowl as Brady's teammate. Of the 728 players to play in a Super Bowl win since the 2001 season, 207 of them (28.4%) did it as Brady's teammate.
Hall of Fame
The NFL also announced a new class of Hall of Famers on Super Bowl weekend led by first-ballot choices Peyton Manning, Charles Woodson and Calvin Johnson.
The election of Woodson and Manning marks the first time that players who finished 1-2 in the Heisman Trophy voting in a given year ended up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Woodson beat out Manning in 1997, with fellow Hall of Famer Randy Moss coming in fourth.
Ryan Leaf was third. Woodson is the 10th Heisman Trophy winner to get voted into the Hall.
Johnson is the fifth player to make the Hall who started his career after Brady did in 2000, joining Steve Hutchinson, Ladainian Tomlinson, Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu.