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
11. Love Is Blind
12. Fly Too High
13. Arms Around My Life
14. His Hands
15. When Angels Cry
16. My Tennessee Hills
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
27. I Long for You
28. Ginny the Flying Girl
29. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye - Janis Ian, Traditional
30. Today You're Mine
31. At Seventeen
Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2008-07-22)
- Publisher: Cooking Vinyl
- Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Studio: Cooking Vinyl
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- Sales Rank in Music: #8671
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Summary: Must Have! 2008-12-06
Comment: A fine collection of Janis Ian songs. A must have for everyones collection. One of the greatest songwriters.
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Summary: It's A Great Collection From Janis Ian 2008-12-06
Comment: I really love this album/cd and have been looking for Society's Child for an eternity. Now I have a collection from a woman who I truly admire.I recommend this to anyone with a heart and soul. It will make you laugh and it will make you cry,I did....Thank-You Janis Ian and Thank-You Amazon
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Summary: Great CD 2008-11-25
Comment: I have totally enjoyed the Janice Ian Autobiography CD. I bought the CD to have a copy of my favorite Janice Ian song "At Seventeen" and found that I liked her body of work over the years. The song "Society's Child" I found most interesting considering it is a song about a interacial relationship in the 1960's. Ms. Ian is a great Folk singer, but many of the songs on this CD mix Folk with some Jazz, and RB which I think makes it a great CD. I recommend it for all of those people who love 60-70's music and folk music.
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Summary: Stunning. What soul, what heart, what a voice. 2008-11-24
Comment: When I say "What a voice" I don't just mean the voice itself, I mean it metaphorically: what a profound, touching set of things she has to say, and what a wonderful way of expressing them. In the songs and in the book.
I didn't know about this book/CD project when I saw her live in N.H. last Thursday, but I bought a set before the show started, and another set after. I was in tears three times during songs in the show, and part of it was how moved I was by the stories from her life, between songs. Being called "n*gger lover" by people in the crowd at her first concert ever, scaring her off the stage, until she found the strength (at age 15) to stand up to them; being herself in the face of tremendous pressure from record companies; going through so many phases of her life, and emerging now at age 57 as a stunning, powerful, short :) white-headed powerhouse.
I've started reading the book and it's even better than the stories she told on stage. This woman can WRITE - who knew? She has the ability to take a multi-dimensional story and find those few select bits that, when spun together and artfully expressed, convey far more feeling and impact than the word count would suggest.
And the whole concept of each chapter having a companion song on the CDs - bewitching. I'm on my third time through, listening to the two-CD set, and I'm falling in love with it... and I don't fall in love with a CD often. It's one of those song-after-song "oh that one!" experiences.
Rediscovering Janis at this point in both our lives is not just a blast from the past - this is a new, rich, hedonistic pleasure. And what a pleasure.
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Summary: Janis is a must hear, must read, must see!!!!!!!!!!!! 2008-11-02
Comment: If you only know one Janis song, 17, you are going to be blown away. ALL her songs are great. I am 47. When I put this CD in the player, my kids 8 and 12 years old, argue about which song to play first. My husband loves her too. Buy the CD and her book, Society's Child, and then go to her web site to see when she is going to be within a few hours drive so that you can see her in concert. We saw her last week, twice, and were blown away. She is not only a great musician, but also very funny and entertaining. Go to janisian.com and check out her web site. You can never have too much Janis! When you start reading her book, you won't be able to put it down. She has been to hell and back and instead of turning into a bitter woman, she just kept making beautiful music and sharing and giving to the world.
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