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Janis Ian - Souvenirs: Best of Janis Ian 1972-1981 Audio CD

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Title: Souvenirs: Best of Janis Ian 1972-1981
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Release Date: 2004-08-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Stars 2: Jesse 3: From Me to You 4: At Seventeen 5: In the Winter 6: Belle of the Blues 7: Love Is Blind 8: Will You Dance? 9: Miracle Row 10: Maria 11: Party Lights 12: Do You Wanna Dance? 13: Silly Habits 14: Other Side of the Sun 15: Fly Too High [From Foxes] 16: Jenny (Iowa Sunrise) 17: Mechanical Telephone 18: Passion Play

souvenirs-best of Janis Ian
Besides the beautiful and well -known 'At Seventeen', and 'Jesse', there are many other beautiful melodies mixing styles from ballad to jazz, reminding singer-songwriters, like Joni Mitchell, or Carole King. This is a thorough anthology of Janis Ian with songs taken from many albums such as 'Stars', 'Between the lines', 'Aftertones', 'Miracle Row','Janis Ian', 'Night Rains','Uncle Wonderful',and 'Restless Eyes'. Very nice indeed.


Best of Janis Ian
Her lyrics are profound and this lady can sing! I would recommend this CD to everyone. I recently heard Janis on a Saturday Night Live Show from 1976 and I bought this CD and have since purchased a second CD of her's.


Souvenirs
This is a great Cd of an Artist and time mostly forgotten. The title says it all.


great but we need more
tough to give more stars to this collection when it includes only two songs from her finest album: Between the Lines (two great songs but there are at least another three songs that shouldve been included) bottom line this shouldve been a two disc set, whats there is great though.


Brilliant but sometimes controversial folk-rock singer
Those recordings are not included on this compilation covering her later recordings, but they can be found separately. Janis Ian began her recording career with a song (Society's child) about an inter-racial relationship and followed up with an album of protest songs.

Between 1974 and 1979, Janis recorded four classic albums (Stars, Between the lines, Aftertones, Night rains) from which most of the tracks here are taken. Those albums featured many of the great songs we remember her for including Jesse (a top ten American hit via a Roberta Flack cover), At seventeen (a top five American hit for Janis), Love is blind (a Japanese number one hit), Will you dance (another big Japanese hit), Fly too high (featured on the soundtrack of Foxes and a minor UK hit) and The other side of the sun (another minor UK hit).

Following those albums, Janis diversified into acting and writing but continued to record great music. When Canada legalized single-sex marriages, Janis seized on the opportunity to marry her lesbian partner there in 2003.

Forget all the controversy and just listen to a brilliant folk-rock singer who never achieved the same level of success as Joan Baez, Judy Collins or Joni Mitchell but who certainly deserves to be considered alongside those outstanding singers. If you enjoy their music, give Janis a listen. This compilation provides a great introduction to her music.


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