When Stills was writing this song, he was well aware that his relationship with Collins was about to end, yet he wrote this song to try and win her back. A suite is a series of musical compositions that are all related by being in the same key. Judy Collins was known for her striking blue eyes, Stills wrote the song as a suite to play on the word `sweet'. The song is about Stephen Stills' then girlfriend, Judy Collins. In a biography of Stills by David Roberts it has been suggested that the actual recording date was August 26, 1968.Suite: Judy Blue Eyes appeared on Crosby, Stills, and Nash's self-titled album in 1969.
Note that Stills was performing at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, AZ as a member of Buffalo Springfield on the date referenced in the title. "Treetop Flyer" is not from the 1968 sessions.
He sings all the songs and plays acoustic guitar and resonator guitar. Stills is the only musician on the album. Nash received the tapes, passed them on to Stills, encouraging him to release them. In 2003, he was connected to Graham Nash after happening to meet a close friend of his named Dan Curland, who owns the Mystic Disc Record Store. Colasurdo began attempting to get the masters safely back into Stills's hands, an undertaking that took 25 years. After seeing Stills' names on several of the boxes, Colasurdo kept them safe until he could find a reel-to-reel machine to play them on. When the studio was about to close in 1978, musician Joe Colasurdo, who was rehearsing there, was told by the owner that he could take away any tapes he wanted to before they cleared the place out. But Stills left the tapes in the studio and eventually considered them lost.
In the sleeve notes to the CD, Stephen Stills recalls that he was present at a Judy Collins session in New York in 1968, and when she finished with studio time remaining, Stills paid the engineer privately to let him record song demos. Just Roll Tape: Apis a Stephen Stills demo album released in 2007.
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