Not only did she have a handful of jokes prepared ("We used to call it the Great American Songbook now we call it the Rod Stewart Songbook") but a disruptive cough forced her to be even more informal and talkative. "You all know the '60s are on their way back it's new and improved," Collins told a packed house. She is getting ready to take her club act to New York's tony Cafe Carlyle for a six-week run starting April 21, and she was loose, familiar and political.
After breaking into "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," she asked: "I just wondered if Sarah Palin knew that song."Ĭollins, 69, let her hair down - her voluminous silver mane cascading to the middle of her back - compared to her previous more formal performances in Twin Cities theaters and concert halls. Like Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins started out as a folk singer in the 1960s and became so much more: activist, muse (Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"), mother, hitmaker, chanteuse, author, suicide-prevention crusader, icon.Īfter her first of two nights at the Dakota Jazz Club on Monday, add comedian to that list.Ĭollins was firing off Mae West's jokes, one-liners that Dolly Parton had uttered in an interview with Larry King and her own political jabs.
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