The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and early tragic death. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Fleet Foxes, David Geffen, and more.
Direction
Lindstrom excavates archives Geffen tried to bury.
Sound
Her baroque folk arrangements finally get their due.
Writing
Reveals the machinery behind 'authentic' 70s singer-songwriter myth.
Director
Brian Lindstrom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Her 1971 debut was the first album released on Asylum Records—Geffen's label named for the very musicians he institutionalized.
Fleet Foxes covering her in 2023 sparked this documentary's greenlight; Gen Z discovered her via TikTok crate-digging.
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