Artists like Trembling Blue Stars, Beth Orton, Final Fantasy, Ron Sexsmith, and Daniel Rossen (of Department of Eagles and Grizzly Bear), among others, contribute to this anthology celebrating the strange but very sincere songwriting of one of pop music's most tragic young casualties, the woman known as Judee Sill. Signed to Asylum by David Geffen through her relationship with David Crosby and Graham Nash, she wrote "Lady-O" for the Turtles (who knew a great song when they heard one to cover), which TBS do a wonderful job handling here. Struggles with drug addiction in spite of her life-changing religious conversion led to her death, before she could release a third LP in her decade of acclaim, the 70s.

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