Forever: An Anthology

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Forever: An Anthology
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Released1997 (1997)
Length2:20:41
Label Elektra
Judy Collins chronology
Christmas at the Biltmore Estate
(1997)
Forever: An Anthology
(1997)
Both Sides Now
(1998)

Forever: An Anthology is a 1997 Judy Collins two-CD compilation album with thirty-five songs, including three new recordings: "The Fallow Way", "Nothing Lasts Forever" and "Walls (We Are Not Forgotten)" and a re-recording of "Chelsea Morning". [1]

Contents

Track listing

CD #1

TrackSong TitleLengthComposer(s)
1 Someday Soon 3:44 Ian Tyson
2 Who Knows Where the Time Goes? 4:43 Sandy Denny
3 Chelsea Morning 3:15 Joni Mitchell
4 Suzanne 4:24 Leonard Cohen
5Born to the Breed4:49Judy Collins
6 Maid of the Constant Sorrow 2:37Traditional
7Since You Asked2:35Judy Collins
8Bread and Roses3:06 Mimi Fariña, James Oppenheim
9In the Hills of Shiloh3:40James Friedman, Shel Silverstein
10 City of New Orleans 4:10 Steve Goodman
11The Fallow Way4:02Judy Collins
12Grandaddy3:24Judy Collins
13My Father5:04Judy Collins
14La Chanson des Vieux Amants4:39 Jacques Brel
15 In My Life 2:57 Lennon–McCartney
16 Marat Sade 5:37 Richard Peaslee
17 Send in the Clowns 4:04 Stephen Sondheim

CD #2

TrackSong titleLengthComposer(s)
1 Both Sides Now 3:15 Joni Mitchell
2 Desperado 3:33 Glenn Frey, Don Henley
3 Masters of War 3:24 Bob Dylan
4Fisherman Song3:57Judy Collins
5So Early, Early in the Spring3:10Traditional
6First Boy I Loved7:29 Robin Williamson
7Albatross4:52Judy Collins
8Hard Lovin' Loser2:29Mimi Fariña,
9In the Heat of the Summer3:26 Phil Ochs
10Pirate Jenny4:04 Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
11 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) 3:40 Pete Seeger, Traditional
12 Salt of the Earth 4:01 Jagger/Richards
13Farewell to Tarwathie4:53Traditional, arranged Judy Collins
14Spanish Is the Loving Tongue4:32Charles Bafger Clark Jr.
15Nothing Lasts Forever4:31Judy Collins, Jessie Valenzuela
16Walls (We Are Not Forgotten)3:50Judy Collins, Louis Nelson
17 Bird on a Wire 4:39Leonard Cohen
18 Amazing Grace 4:06 John Newton

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References

  1. Stephen Thomas Erlewine (28 October 1997). "Forever: An Anthology - Judy Collins". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 May 2014.