Marcia Drummergal
10-31-2008, 10:33 AM
I just received my October Jamie Anderson newsletter. Some of you may be familar with this wonderful singer/songwriter/comedienne. She wrote to me all excited about seeing Janis in N.C. last week. She knows I'm a Rudie and thought of me. This is taken from her newsletter which has wide circulation:
"I had the extreme pleasure of attending two great concerts last week, Janis
> Ian and Paula Poundstone; kick-ass folk music one night and great improv
> comedy the next. And actually, Ian can be pretty funny, especially when
> expounding on her ego. (Singer-songwriters have inflated egos? Who knew?) Poundstone
> didn't sing but announced to a room full of Southerners that her and her
> children were atheists. The crowd got so quiet that I swear I could hear my hair
> grow. Then she followed it up with one liners about not bothering people on
> Saturday morning and giving out blank books. I think I bust a blood vessel
> laughing so much.
> I've been an Ian fan ever since a grade school friend's mother brought home
> Society's Child. (She was the cool mom on the block, also introducing me
> to The Doors and Carole King.) My nine year old mind couldn't comprehend why
> someone with such a pretty voice was banned from the radio.At Seventeen
> came out when I was seventeen. I dropped the needle down on that album so many
> times it's a wonder I could still hear it through the scratches. I bought
> all her albums and learned as many of her songs as I could. My lesbian friends
> and I speculated about her sexuality but I didn't know for sure until she
> came out with Breaking Silence just a few years ago.
> I'd forgotten what a great guitar player she is. She doesn't just plow
> through standard chords but uses the whole fretboard, employing tasteful runs and
> chord voicings not found in the folk singer handbook. At the show she
> started Society's Child with a cool bass run. The next day I cruised YouTube,
> looking at her old videos, including one from the Smothers Brothers show, back
> when she was a teen. I can't imagine writing and performing a song about
> interracial dating at that age and in that time. At fifteen I was still learning
> how to go from D to G without stopping.
> Read her new book, folks. It's really good. (http://www.janisian.com/)
Thanks Jamie!! Marcia :)
"I had the extreme pleasure of attending two great concerts last week, Janis
> Ian and Paula Poundstone; kick-ass folk music one night and great improv
> comedy the next. And actually, Ian can be pretty funny, especially when
> expounding on her ego. (Singer-songwriters have inflated egos? Who knew?) Poundstone
> didn't sing but announced to a room full of Southerners that her and her
> children were atheists. The crowd got so quiet that I swear I could hear my hair
> grow. Then she followed it up with one liners about not bothering people on
> Saturday morning and giving out blank books. I think I bust a blood vessel
> laughing so much.
> I've been an Ian fan ever since a grade school friend's mother brought home
> Society's Child. (She was the cool mom on the block, also introducing me
> to The Doors and Carole King.) My nine year old mind couldn't comprehend why
> someone with such a pretty voice was banned from the radio.At Seventeen
> came out when I was seventeen. I dropped the needle down on that album so many
> times it's a wonder I could still hear it through the scratches. I bought
> all her albums and learned as many of her songs as I could. My lesbian friends
> and I speculated about her sexuality but I didn't know for sure until she
> came out with Breaking Silence just a few years ago.
> I'd forgotten what a great guitar player she is. She doesn't just plow
> through standard chords but uses the whole fretboard, employing tasteful runs and
> chord voicings not found in the folk singer handbook. At the show she
> started Society's Child with a cool bass run. The next day I cruised YouTube,
> looking at her old videos, including one from the Smothers Brothers show, back
> when she was a teen. I can't imagine writing and performing a song about
> interracial dating at that age and in that time. At fifteen I was still learning
> how to go from D to G without stopping.
> Read her new book, folks. It's really good. (http://www.janisian.com/)
Thanks Jamie!! Marcia :)