Amazing Grace
Judy Collins didn't write a note of it, produce a hook onto it, or add a single instrument — and her 1970 a cappella 'Amazing Grace' still became a transatlantic hit. The whole achievement is in what she chose not to do.
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Artist
Judy Collins
American folk singer who broke through in the 1960s Greenwich Village scene, known for her clear soprano and for turning other songwriters' work — Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Stephen Sondheim — into some of the era's best-known recordings. Her a cappella "Amazing Grace" (1970) became an unlikely transatlantic hit and a Library of Congress National Recording Registry selection.
Reviews
Blessed Assurance (Judy Collins)
Judy Collins moves Fanny Crosby's hymn out of the sanctuary and into the same clear-soprano folk register she used to turn other writers' songs into standards -- a quieter, more private read on a text usually sung as a group declaration.
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