.TheJudyCollins covers a folk gem for her 'Winter Stories' album
Many artists take on a Christmas album at some point in their careers. But Judy Collins' upcoming -- whose rendition of Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage" is premiering exclusively below -- is about the season rather than the holiday.
Why? "Well, winter lasts a lot longer than Christmas does, that's for sure," the veteran singer-songwriter tells Billboard with a laugh.is a 10-song set Collins recorded with Norwegian singer Jonas Fjeld and special guests Chatham County Line in Asheville, N.C. -- where Collins also created 25 years ago.
"It was spectacular," Collins says of the sessions at Echo Mountain studio. "We just bonded for a few days, and it was all a pleasure. I actually got together with Chatham County Line about a year ago -- in November -- and had a little rehearsal to see how we worked together. They're so great, so we decided to go ahead with it and make this album. And Jonas is a friend of mine and he's worked with them before and likes them a lot. I really love the way it sounds.
Collins says that she "missed Stan Rogers" -- a Canadian folk singer who died at the age of 33 during 1983 -- until she was invited to sing at the Stan Rogers Folk Festival in Nova Scotia a few years back, where she first heard "Northwest Passage. "I was sitting in my dressing room looking down at this beautiful hill in the rain and I could hear this song coming up the hill," Collins recalls.
shows with Fjeld and Chatham County Line starting Nov. 18 with an eight-show run at Joe's Pub in New York. "So when we started to talk about I said, 'Well, that's a song we have to do.' I think it's one of the great songs of the centuries." due out Nov.
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