Hard Times for Lovers

Hard Times for Lovers
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1979
GenreFolk
LabelElektra
ProducerGary Klein
Judy Collins chronology
So Early in the Spring
(1977)
Hard Times for Lovers
(1979)
Running for My Life
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

Hard Times for Lovers is the twelfth studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1979.

It was Collins's first new recording since Bread and Roses, in 1976; it earned some extra publicity as a result of the back cover of the Francesco Scavullo-photographed sleeve art, depicting most of a nude Collins as seen from the back. The album was still something of a commercial disappointment, however, peaking at No. 54 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.