At 85, the singer fully grasps life's meaning and channels it through songs we know but have never before heard like this.Legend has it that Juan Ponce de León set off for the New World in search of the Fountain of Youth. Five hundred years later, Barbara Cook, the ageless 85-year-old singer, can be credited with having found it — not in some secret Florida spring, but in the American songbook.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:22PM on November 15, 2012