The Donor (Live), Judee Sill (1973)

[@RandyVanSykes]

Music is personal...what you like. I like her writing very much...may be too deep for most. Great talent.

[@railwaystationmaster]

Acoustic nourishment for an impoverished soul 💚food .

[@johnadams2833]

A soul nourished on sincerity can never go wrong, and Judee had the sincerity thing, pretty much in spades.

[@stephenscott1153]

A very special talent whose lyrics, voice and deliveries always revealed her personal thoughts. Oh she was gone far too soon but her music lives on deep, so deep in those of us who connected with her.

[@stregalilith]

So True! She had the healing spirit and she was all about love...

[@canarsie56]

greatest underrated singer/songwriter ever, period

[@sodiumlights]

lets stop right here/now with this so-called 'under-rated' shit. Show me just one single review of Judee Sill that was ever close to negative. She has never been under-rated. Weirdly under-fcking-loved though! How can the V.U, get 30mill yt hits for a song and JD zilch? I like it better this way.

[@stregalilith]

Her melodies and harmonies are absolutely unique. There will never be another Judee Sill.

[@carolwolf9614]

One of the greatest women to have ever graced the world. Her beautiful soul lives on in a very few of us.

[@kieronkelly959]

A true genius

[@waynemoreton7705]

Beautiful song from a troubled soul who just happened to have immense talent.

[@77doriella]

Judee was and still is the best.

[@dagmichael]

The way she talks about squandered chances, combined with her life story and these haunting melodies... It's enough to bring anyone to tears.

[@johnadams2833]

art as life: a truthteller autobiographical canvass - herself vulnerable sincerity for the sake of her audience meant everything to Judee

[@NoImSpartacus]

Amazing piece of music… full of agony, wonder and hope

[@RICJapan]

Up there with Nick Drake and Nina Simone - very special and one of the most tragic lives in music-when you discover her as i did many years ago it's a special day.....so beautiful- a real artist!

[@aaronm.3581]

Check out Nicks mom. Molly Drake.

[@RICJapan]

@@aaronm.3581 Give her a pass! I have the CD- mistake!!

[@aaronm.3581]

@@RICJapan Oh. I think she is remarkable.

[@johnadams2833]

Familiar with Nina. Nick in recent years. Remember Judee passing, as with Vince Guaraldi, Freddie Prinze, Terry Kath, Donnie Hathaway, John Lennon, Natalie Wood, Karen Carpenter, Gilda Radner, Michael Landon... ugh. Miss em all.

[@WackSmackAttack]

she was too deep for the shallow masses. i wish i knew her. i would have supported her as much as i could. love you judee.

[@MrGottmusik]

Judee Sill is a good example of how, more often than not, it is about some other thing that compels commercial success. It is not necessarily about the quality of their work, their music or what they have to say as an artist. It appears, at least to me, that it is about something else entirely. Maybe it's about their personality, their physical appearance, the fact that they've done little in their lives that might "offend" anyone. For surely Judee Sill had as much depth and heart in her work as anyone of that period. And maybe I'm just wrecked at the moment as I listen to her music and ponder where her life took her.

[@theoriginalthg]

She basically starved to death all alone in a trailer after turning to prostitution to support her heroin addiction it's horribly sad Edit: She was incredibly obscure at the time of her death and so reports vary. She died of "acute cocaine and codeine overdose" which was ruled a suicide by the coroner duebto some writing they had found but most of the people that knew her swear it was a song concept it certainly was not a textbook suicide note but she was chiefly an opiate addict codeine was easy to get back then I imagine she was just sick. Heroin had gotten expensive by then. Also, Wikipedia used to say a trailer and now says an apartment. Either way she weighed tragically little, was malnourished and unhealthy and died all alone. What a horrible, tragic waste.

[@SoulmateDie]

Incredible how this live stripped-down version is mesmerizing like the studio one. She had it all in her voice... Who knows what she'd have done for music if she had more time

[@JehanineMelmoth]

Thank you for the photos of Judee. As with all her best work I fill both uplifted and tearful listening to this.

[@jamesmonahanmusic]

GOODBYE ❤

[@SuperJohannes44]

Thanks for including so many pictures of Judee!

[@johnadams2833]

That's cool. I really just wanted to put something together that I could watch every now and again when I needed to feel grounded. When it prompted whether to share or keep private, "Okay sure, why not." =)

[@DarwinOrwell2]

@@johnadams2833 Who's the picture at 1:37? Is that her mom?

[@johnadams2833]

@@DarwinOrwell2 Her name was Dana Wynter (1931-2011)... does kind look a little like they could have been related though, huh? No. Just an actress from programs I grew up on that I always felt had a comforting quality in her face. As with Barbara Stanwyck and Brenda Benet (also pictured).

[@socrates1818]

A true angel…upon our shores magically

[@bryanirving2422]

Marvellous.

[@msannthrope_2049]

Wow. Liz Phair could play her in a biopic. They even sound alike.

[@socrates1818]

If, as Dave Gilmore says, the Beatles were a miracle- what then is Judee?

[@turloughsmith8479]

She's amazing... the music's too much... heavy soul...

[@theoriginalthg]

Psychedelic religious baroque folk it's so amazing. I'll never forget when I discovered her. Changed the way I thought about composition and writing. The Beatles, PFunk, Judee, King Crimson, Allman Brothers, Tool and Sublime and of course Floyd all were major perspective changers. I love this woman with all my heart she changed my life and my music for the far better. What a beautiful soul and generational genius. I'd have to say she is one of, if not THE best female musician in the history of recorded music purely on a knowledge and chops level. Joni Mitchell is a generational talent and she has two or three times the musical prowess of Joni, she just wasn't as cute. Music is for your ears and Geffen didn't know how to handle someone like her yet. If not for Judee Sill, I truly believe we may never heard of Kurt Cobain. She was the first artist Geffen ever signed and she was tragically lost too quickly and in a place her genius did not belong. Working with artists like this I believe gave Geffen the skills to later deal with people like GNR and Nirvana and Joe Walsh Era Eagles

[@pamelasmith4594]

Judee sill is marvellous. Wh is the woman in the photos? Is it her mother?

[@SuperJohannes44]

I'm always surprised how different her speaking and singing voice were.

[@GeeBee909]

Some of those photos you are showing ARE NOT Judee Sill. They are British actress Dana Wynter.

[@johnadams2833]

Check out my response to Johannes Wich-Schwarz (below) - "Her name was Dana Wynter (1931-2011)... does kind look a little like they could have been related though, huh? No. Just an actress from programs I grew up on that I always felt had a comforting quality in her face. As with Barbara Stanwyck and Brenda Benet (also pictured)." Peace

[@bryanirving2422]

Thank you, I was wondering who that is