Judee Sill (1944–1979) was an American singer-songwriter whose early 1970s albums combine folk songwriting with orchestral and spiritual elements.

Signed to Asylum Records; David Geffen was involved in her signing. Debut album released 1971, second album Heart Food released 1973. Struggled with addiction and legal troubles; died in 1979. Work has been reissued posthumously.

DeBaser reviews celebrate Judee Sill's two early-1970s albums for their luminous folk songwriting and orchestral arrangements. Reviewers highlight spiritual imagery, vocal clarity, and tragic life circumstances. Her work is described as overlooked in her time and richly reissued.

For:Listeners of 1970s folk, singer-songwriters, baroque-pop and spiritually inclined music fans

 The album that bears her name "Judee Sill" is a concentrate of visionary grace and fertile spirituality.

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 God, why didn’t you save her, what would it have cost you to transform into a soldier, a vigilante, a mere stranger traveling along rugged roads and bestow her at least this gift, she who never received much from life and who always kept pleading for someone to come take her and save her, she always waited in vain for her messiah...

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 I was convinced I had bought a vinyl...instead I realized I had found a sonic pearl.

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