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Janis Ian - Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection Audio CD

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Title: Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection
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Release Date: 2008-07-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hair of Spun Gold 2: god & the fbi 3: Silly Habits 4: Society's Child 5: Haven't I Got Eyes 6: Jesse 7: Stars 8: Thankyous 9: This Train Still Runs 10: At Seventeen - album version 11: Love Is Blind 12: Fly Too High 13: Arms Around My Life 14: His Hands 15: When Angels Cry 16: My Tennessee Hills (duet with Dolly Parton) 17: Every Love 18: Some People's Lives 19: Stolen Fire 20: Days Like These 21: Tattoo 22: Through the Years 23: I Hear You Sing Again 24: Joy 25: My Autobiography 26: Hair of Spun Gold (Janis' very first demo, sung into her father's tape recorder in 1963) 27: I Long For You 28: Ginny the Flying Girl 29: Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye 30: Today You're Mine 31: At Seventeen - single version

Forget Amazon--buy it at JIdotcom
But this double CD is in stock at JI DOT COM. I don't know what's going on here.
Amazon is really messing up. This collection is a terrific over view of her career. . with many highlights and rarities!
. . and READ her book!--It's a WOW!.


A Portrait Of The Artist's Thoroughly Self-Examined Life
The artist wishes it to be known that the CD set can also be ordered from www. Contrary to the insistence of the Amazon site, this item is indeed very much available and in stock. 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.


A message from "Janis Ian".
janisian. This Item "IS" in Stock! If you have any problems getting this from Amazon or if Amazon can't fill the order, then you can always go to www. com to buy it, along with the book. A message from "Janis Ian". Thank you!.


This is indeed available!
Try to find the correct one, and sorry for the hassle!
Janis Ian. Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection
Not sure why Amazon are listing this item twice, once as available and once as not - but it's my own two disk set, and it's definitely available.


Loved the retrospecitve
Those unfamiliar with her will be surprised with her range of musical styles, while those familiar will be thrilled with her classic hits referenced in the book, as well as work tapes, never-before-released songs, and ones long out of print. Coinciding with the release of her autobiography, the artist has released a sumptuous, 30-song, two-CD retrospective from her 40-year career.


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