Stephen Stills... buddy of Peter Tork and Monkee wanna-be way back when... good ol' Stephen Stills has written or co-written a number of fine songs, many of which were beautiful in their own way (e.g.,
4+20, Southern Cross).
I'd like to call out
two beautiful songs -- that he recorded with two different bands -- which always seemed to me to be
of a piece. The better known (probably) of the two,
Suite Judy Blue Eyes was famously written for his sometime muse and partner Judy Collins.
I've always suspected that his earlier song
Bluebird, recorded by Buffalo Springfield, was also about her -- or someone an awful lot like her.
Oh, and speaking of Ms Collins. Starting as a folkie in the early '60s, she seemed to incur a fair amount of ire over the years as kind of a low-rent Joan Baez, and she's derided for appropriating some other fine songwriters' songs in ways that (perhaps???) weren't entirely ethical (e.g., Leonard Cohen's
Suzanne and maybe also Joni's
Both Sides Now -- or so I have read)... She did cover Ian Tyson's
Someday Soon to good effect.
She also was responsible for a pretty darned nice cover of a beautiful John Lennon song (
In My Life).
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