Portrait of an American Girl
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Track listing

  1. "Singing Lessons" (Collins) - 4:05
  2. "That Song About the Midway" (Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

    ) - 4:09
  3. "I Can't Cry Hard Enough" (Marvin Etzoni, David Williams) - 3:18
  4. "You Can't Buy Love" (Collins) - 3:13
  5. "Pacing the Cage" (Bruce Cockburn
    Bruce Cockburn
    Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.-Biography:...

    ) - 4:02
  6. "Sally Go 'Round the Roses
    Sally Go 'Round the Roses
    "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" is the name of a 1963 hit by the Jaynetts, a Bronx-based one-hit wonder girl group, released by J&S Records on the Tuff label.-Background:...

    " (Abner Spector) - 3:27
  7. "Voyager" (Collins) - 3:01
  8. "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)
    Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)
    "Drops of Jupiter " is the title of a song written and recorded by American rock band Train. It was released in February 2001 as the lead single from their second album Drops of Jupiter . The song hit the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and also charting in the Top 40 for 29 weeks...

    " (Colin, Hotchkiss, Monihan, Stafford, Underwood) - 4:03
  9. "Wedding Song (Song for Louis)" (Collins) - 3:51
  10. "Checkmate" (Collins) - 6:07
  11. "Liberté" (John Bettis
    John Bettis
    John Bettis is an American lyricist who has co-written many famous popular songs over the years. In 2011, John was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame....

    , Steve Dorff
    Steve Dorff
    Steve Dorff is an American songwriter and composer whose work is mainly in the field of country music.Dorff has written several songs for other artists, including "Hypnotize the Moon" and "My Heart Will Never Know" for Clay Walker, "The Man in Love with You" and "I Cross My Heart" by George Strait,...

    ) - 3:08
  12. "Lincoln Portrait" (Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

    ) - 7:13
  13. "How Can I Keep from Singing?
    How Can I Keep from Singing?
    "How Can I Keep From Singing?" is a Christian hymn with music written by American Baptist minister Robert Wadsworth Lowry. The song is frequently, though erroneously, cited as a traditional Quaker hymn...

    " (Collins, Robert Lowry
    Robert Lowry
    Robert Lowry was an American politician from Mississippi. During the American Civil War he rose from the rank of private to that of brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. Lowry briefly served in the state senate after the war...

    , Pete Seeger
    Pete Seeger
    Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...

    ) - 3:53

Personnel

  • Judy Collins – vocals, guitar, piano, arranger, narrator
  • Gary Anderson – synthesizer, arranger
  • Tony Beard – drums
  • Hugh McCracken
    Hugh McCracken
    Hugh McCracken is a rhythm guitar player and session musician, arranger and producer based in New York.Especially in demand in the 60s, 70s and 80s, he appears on many recordings by Steely Dan, as well as albums by Donald Fagen, Jimmy Rushing, Billy Joel, Roland Kirk, Roberta Flack, B. B...

     – guitar
  • Lee Musiker – piano
  • Zev Katz – bass
  • Russell Walden – piano, keyboards, arranger
  • Johnson Flucker – arranger, conductor

Production notes

  • Produced by Judy Collins and Alan Silverman
  • Engineered by Alan Silverman, Arnold Mischkulnig, Roy Hendrickson
  • Mixed by Alan Silverman
  • Cover photo by Annie Leibovitz
    Annie Leibovitz
    Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.-Early life and education:Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's...

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