Janis Ian - Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection
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Artist: Janis IanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-07-18
Music Label: Rude Girl Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Hair of Spun Gold
- god & the fbi
- Silly Habits
- Society's Child
- Haven't I Got Eyes
- Jesse
- Stars
- Thankyous
- This Train Still Runs
- At Seventeen - album version
- Love Is Blind
- Fly Too High
- Arms Around My Life
- His Hands
- When Angels Cry
- My Tennessee Hills (duet with Dolly Parton)
- Every Love
- Some People's Lives
- Stolen Fire
- Days Like These
- Tattoo
- Through the Years
- I Hear You Sing Again
- Joy
- My Autobiography
- Hair of Spun Gold (Janis' very first demo, sung into her father's tape recorder in 1963)
- I Long For You
- Ginny the Flying Girl
- Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
- Today You're Mine
- At Seventeen - single version
Music reviews of Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection
Music Review: A Portrait Of The Artist's Thoroughly Self-Examined Life
Rating: 5 Stars
Contrary to the insistence of the Amazon site, this item is indeed very much available and in stock. The artist wishes it to be known that the CD set can also be ordered from www.janisian.com.
Every musician with a few recordings under his and her belt eventually puts out an anthology and/or a live album. The usual result is a "Greatest Hits" collection, a sort of Reader's Digest condensed career for those who don't like the singer enough to build a collection of recordings. A recent trend, largely created by the releasers of CDs who want to convince us oldsters to let go of our vinyl, has been the inclusion of an "unreleased" track or two--commonly live performances and not always unreleased in the strictest sense.
Janis Ian never does anything in quite the same way as everybody else. She's made a fine career of it, and so, it should not be surprising that, with her Autobiography in print and a CD set created to accompany it, the latter should be somewhat iconoclastic. First and foremost this is NOT a "Greatest Hits" collection. You'll find here many of the Janis Ian songs that have been played on the radio (some of them gloriously remastered from original masters for the first time), but you'll also find a previously unreleased worktape of Janis' first song, a number of powerful songs that Clear Channel Radio will never be ready for, and new recordings of several songs that will be familiar to Ian's fans but revisited via different (sometimes significantly so) arrangements. And yes, there are several live tracks and for good measure, one brand new recording of a traditional folk song ("Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye") which has never before appeared on a Janis Ian disk.
The playlist for the two-disk set was suggested by events in Ian's autobiography, and each of the songs is at least mentioned or more likely was inspired by events discussed in the book. The book and the CD set are marvelous companions and if you experience one without the other....you'll be missing out on a lot.
Perhaps unique among collections and anthologies by legendary performers, this anthology is a companion to, and not merely a Cliff's Notes version of, Janis Ian's lengthy career. On its own, it stands beautifully as a listening experience. If all you want to do is hear "At Seventeen" and "Society's Child" in very nicely remastered versions, you won't be disappointed. But for those familiar with Ian's work, even if you own everything she has ever recorded, the newly recorded and alternate tracks will lend a new perspective to songs which have become familiar, and serve as a reminder that as always, Janis looks deep into herself for her material....and does not turn away even after one might think the work was done.
And once again, yes, this album is in print, in stock, and available from Amazon.com or www.janisian.com.
Description of Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection
2011 three disc (two CDs + PAL/Region 0 DVD) collection from the singer/songwriter. Best known for her signature song `At Seventeen', which was released in 1975, Janis won a Grammy Award for the single, which sold over two million singles in the United States alone, upon release. Later in the decade she was selected to sing the main theme tune for the Jodie Foster film `Foxes'. `Fly Too High', which was produced by electro disco genius Giorgio Moroder, gave Janis her first UK hit in November 1979 and became an international hit. The record went to #30 in the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco Chart. Also included in this package is a twelve-track DVD filmed during her peak period in 1979 in Japan and Australia. Edsel Records.Folk CDs
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