TOM NEtHERLAND Special to The Herald Courier

Grand distinction emanates from the voice of Judy Collins. A flaming star, she bound upon America’s burgeoning folk music during the 1960s like a Claude Monet creation painted anew.

Candidly, Judy Collins sings in swaths of color the likes of which paint the breadths of life. She’s legendary. And she’s coming to the treasured Paramount Bristol in downtown Bristol, Tennessee, on Thursday, Oct. 9. Like Monet in The Louvre or Bob Dylan at Farm Aid, Collins classifies well as a stylist.

“That’s true,” Collins said by phone from her home in New York City. “You develop your own style over the years. It’s personal. It’s a natural outgrowth of your life — how you grew up, where you grew up.”

Collins was born 86 years ago in Seattle. At age 13 and a

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