Springs appeared on his albums Street-Legal (1978), Bob Dylan at Budokan (1978), and Slow Train Coming (1979), as well as the compilation The Bootleg Series Vol.
As a solo artist signed to Arista Records, Springs released the albums Helena in 1986 and New Love in 1987, and several singles.
She has been a backup singer for other artists, including David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Bette Midler, Pet Shop Boys, and Elton John.
She had personal relationships with Dylan and Robert De Niro, and was married to music executive Tony Lisandrello for six years.
[3] Academic John Hughes praised Springs and Carolyn Dennis for "[adding] such unforgettable potency to his gospel tours".
[7] During the years that she worked with Dylan, Springs jointly wrote 19 songs with him, more than any of his other co-writers; she said in an interview that she had co-written a further three, but none of those were published with a credit for her.
[18] The reviewer of New Love in the Evening Post wrote that Springs "seems to have a penchant for hi-energy pop soul" but "doesn't really have the songs".
[1] Peter Holt of The Evening Standard, highlighting the track "Paper Money", opined that Springs demonstrated a "knack for writing a good pop song" and that "'Black Stockings' makes Tina Turner sound as sexy as cold rice pudding".
[19] Springs was described as having a "rather deep voice which is well-suited to this techno-pop-gone-crazy single", by John Lee in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
In the interim, Springs married music executive Tony Lisandrello in July 1984, and their marriage ended six years later.