True Stories and Other Dreams

True Stories and Other Dreams
Studio album by Judy Collins
Released January 1973
Recorded 1972, The Record Plant, New York City
Genre Folk
Length 40:17
Label Elektra
Producer Mark Abramson
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Judy Collins chronology
Colors of the Day
(1972)
True Stories and Other Dreams
(1973)
Judith
(1975)

True Stories and Other Dreams is an album by American singer Judy Collins, released in 1973. It peaked at No 27 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.

The album included the song "Cook With Honey", which returned Collins to the U.S. pop singles top-forty, as well as Tom Paxton's song "The Hostage" about the 1971 Attica Prison riots. It also included "The Fisherman Song", which she would later perform on Sesame Street.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Judy Collins; except where indicated

  1. "Cook With Honey" (Valerie Carter) – 3:29
  2. "So Begins the Task" (Stephen Stills) – 3:11
  3. "Fisherman Song" – 3:56
  4. "The Dealer (Down and Losin')" (Bob Ruzicka) – 3:55
  5. "Secret Gardens" – 5:30
  6. "Holly Ann" – 4:47
  7. "The Hostage" (Tom Paxton) – 2:52
  8. "Song for Martin" – 5:05
  9. "Che" – 7:32

Personnel

Production notes