During a Jinterview for the National Public Radio program Just Roll Tape, Stills revealed that Collins was present in the studio when the demo tapes were recorded. Collins is known for her piercing blue eyes. The title "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" refers to Stephen Stills' former girlfriend, singer/songwriter Judy Collins, and the lyrics to most of the suite's sections consist of his thoughts about her and their imminent breakup.
This style of tuning would later be used for the Déjà Vu songs "4+20" and "Carry On".ĬSN performed "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" at the Woodstock and Live Aid festivals, and their performance at the former is featured in the film Woodstock (1970). The recording features an acoustic guitar tuned to EEEEBE (" Bruce Palmer Modal Tuning" ) vs. The song is a suite in the classical sense (i.e., an ordered set of musical pieces). The title is a play on words for "Sweet Judy Blue Eyes". In Canada, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" peaked at number 11. The song is ranked #418 on Rolling Stone′s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
It appeared on the group's self-titled debut album in 1969 and was released as a single, hitting #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. But out of that breakup, we got an incredible trio and one of pop music’s great long tracks." Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" is a suite of short songs written by Stephen Stills and performed by Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN). And though Stills played the song personally for Collins, it couldn’t repair the relationship. But it keeps building for close to seven minutes - first to a section of Stills’ vocal solos and finally to the “doo doo doo” coda and tight three-part harmonies that have come to define CSN (and sometimes Y). The roughly three-minute-long first movement could be a self-sufficient pop song in its own right. “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” opened their first self-titled album in 1969. As the story goes, the all-star band Crosby, Stills and Nash was founded by Stills (then part of Buffalo Springfield), David Crosby (the Byrds) and Graham Nash (the Hollies) at either the home of Joni Mitchell or Mama Cass Elliot (the answer depends on which band member you’re talking to) when they started harmonizing together, most likely to this very song. Stephen Stills wrote the four-part medley about his impending breakup with Judy Collins, a well-known singer at the time. The title is, of course, a play on words.
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