However, he was also a depression-prone alcoholic whose addictive personality got passed down to his musician daughter with full potency. Her father was a blind radio personality with some modicum of notoriety. Collins was raised in a middle-class family in Colorado at the beginning of World War II. Famed folk singer’s candid memoir about her survival in the music business despite a 20-year battle with booze.Īlthough classically trained folkie Collins ( Singing Lessons, 1998, etc.) may exude an angelic veneer of ivory-snow purity and Midwestern conservatism, this memoir should dispel any remaining air of innocence surrounding the woman who made Stephen Sondheim’s saccharine “Send In the Clowns” a top-10 hit.
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