“That’s not a bad bet at all,” she tells me proudly over the phone from her hotel room in Chicago. She counts around sixty of her own songs over the years, scattered across her various albums. Not that Collins has been a slouch in the songwriting department. It’s a purple patch that started with 2017’s Silver Skies Blues, a duo project with Ari Hest, and continued with last year’s intensely personal Spellbound – her 29th studio album and, incredibly, the first to include entirely her own songs. Now 83 and still touring relentlessly, the folk icon is in the midst of a particularly dazzling career renaissance. Collins made her first live appearance 70 years ago, performing a Mozart concerto in Denver, Colorado, where she studied piano under the critical eye of classical music pioneer Antonia Brico.
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