question for janis (if you have time)

[david uk]

hi janis

have you or your team noticed any increase in sales of Folk Is The New Black as a result of the Entertainment Tonight screenings?

just wondering

david x

[janisian]

David, we noticed a definite spike for two weeks following. Which is cool, but discouraging, because it proves that if we'd been able to get major television in the US, we'd have sold a lot more records.
Still, it's kind of fantastic that after a year, it's still selling. I'm grateful!

[aabram]

Janis, it's an AMAZING album. Thanks. There are never any copies in the local record shops, and if there are they quickly sell. I put all mine onto tape so I can listen to them at AfA when in the Office. If the tape breaks, then I just make another one :) :D :rolleyes:

[hoops]

that's great to hear...hey maybe a new era of rudies out there.
peace
hoops

[david uk]

thanks for the answer Janis :)

I really do think FINB is one of the best albums of your career

[SongDragon]

I actually got a huge shock the other week. I was talking to an online friend about music because most of the people in the group I had met him in were role-players/writers, while he was a songwriter, and they liked hard rock and he and I grew up on the same sort of music and loved soft rock.

So, I asked the questiong: "Do you know who Janis Ian is?" expecting to go through all sorts of explanations and in the end showing him the website. He answered, "Yes! I was watching the first season of SNL! She has a gorgeous voice and she's so beautiful!" I was shocked, I didn't get to go through my usual intro to Janis. Instead he asked, "Hey, I have an itunes account, what songs should I download?" He was already going to download "At Seventeen" and "Society's Child", so I added "In the Winter" to that. He loved them!

So a new generation of Rudies? If I have anything to say about it, yes! He's in my generation, being only nine years older than me. My friends, both only two months older than me, are also Janis Ian listeners (though neither has joined the site and tend to rely on me for updates). New Rudies!

~Song

[DaveM]

Song....you've joined the Iangelicals!

[aabram]

When I was waiting for the Queen's Hall doors to open, I got chatting to someone who was 21 and had a ticket :). We had quite a long conversation in which he said he liked "Between the Lines" especially. Then I wandered into the "Record Shak" which is a second hand record shop I can NOT keep away from, and there before my very eyes was "Janis Ian II" and "Revenge" CDs :cool: I still consider that to be nothing short of a miracle, but I didn't have enough money to buy them before the Concert. I got the guy to put them by for me, and I went back for them that very Saturday. I still love those albums. I've been back since for the JI Old Vinyl I found, and I'm sure he'll have some more soon, but that seems to be where to look now for the originals and the rarities :) My copy of FNIB is still well-preserved because of my tape-making :)

[SongDragon]

The Iangelicals? The people who make sure everyone they know have heard of Janis Ian?

I guess that makes me a double Iangelical... I do the same thing with the author Ian Irvine...

Nah... I figured Janis would just think I was a crazy stalker at this point (not seriously! really! I'm quite harmless!) because I saw her twice in CT, once in NJ, once in England (LRC), and once in CA. Rather random sampling...

But my friends off of this site do now consider me their personal expert on Janis Ian.

O.o=*does not know how she feels about this, maybe the same as when they decided she was their own personal calculater/spellchecker/editor*

~Song

[DaveM]

Just refer them to "your people" (Kathleen Brogan) and all will be well.