Janis Ian - Happy Birthday April 7th

Janis Ian Pictures from Triple Door Show 2013 - Stage Left by Paul Hanway

 

• Wednesday, May 3rd - Nashville, TN
  The Bluebird Cafe
  Nashville, TN
  Phone: 615-383-1461
  Visit the venue's website
  

  In The Round with Cliff Eberhardt, Pat Alger, and Louise Mosrie.
  Tickets go on sale April 26 at 8AM CT at bluebirdcafe.com.
• Friday, June 2nd - New Brunswick, NJ
  Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater
  New Brunswick, NJ
  Visit the venue's website
  

  Tickets are on sale now.
  Any questions, call 848-932-7565.
• Saturday, June 3rd - New Brunswick, NJ
  Workshops at The Atrium, Rutgers University
  New Brunswick, NJ
  Visit the venue's website
  

  More information on the Conference.
• Sunday, June 4th - NA, New Jersey
  Private Show
  NA, New Jersey
  Visit the venue's website
  

  Sunday, July 30th through Saturday, August 5th - Asheville, NC

Society's Child

Janis Ian

Come to my door, baby
Face is clean and shining black as night
My mama went to answer
You know that you looked so fine
Now I could understand the tears and the shame
She called you "Boy", instead of your name
When she wouldn't let you inside
When she turned and said
"But honey, he's not our kind"
She says I can't see you any more, baby
Can't see you any more
Walk me down to school, baby
Everybody's acting deaf and blind
Until they turn and say
"Why don't you stick to your own kind?"
My teachers all laugh, their smirking stares
cutting deep down in our affairs
Preachers of equality
Think they believe it?
then why won't they just let us be?
They say I can't see you any more, baby
Can't see you any more
One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening
Gonna raise my head up high
One of these days I'm gonna raise up
my glistening wings and fly
But that day will have to wait for a while
Baby, I'm only society's child
When we're older, things may change
but for now this is the way they must remain
I say -- I can't see you any more, baby
Can't see you any more
No, I don't want to see you any more, baby

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Johnny Carson Show

 Historical Picture

Folk Is the New Black

Recorded summer 2005; released February 2006

Danger, Danger
The Great Divide
Life Is Never Wrong
Jackie Skates
All Those Promises
Standing in the Shadows of Love
The Drowning Man
Crocodile Song
The Last Train
My Autobiography
Home Is the Heart
Shadows On the Wind
Haven't I Got Eyes
Joy
Folk Is the New Black

Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection

Released July 2008 Rude Girl Records; released later by Sony North America as “The Essential Janis Ian”

Hair of Spun Gold (record)
God & the FBI
Silly Habits live
Society's Child
Haven't I Got Eyes
Jesse
Stars
Thankyous
This Train Still Runs
At 17 - Album
Love Is Blind
Fly Too High live
Arms Around My Life
His Hands
When Angels Cry
My Tennessee Hills
Every Love
Some People's Lives
Stolen Fire
Days Like These
Tattoo
Through the Years
I Hear You Sing Again
Joy
My Autobiography
Hair of Spun Gold Work Tape
I Long For You
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Today You're Mine
At 17- single version

Strictly Solo

Recorded & assembled December 2013 to benefit the Pearl Foundation; live touring & online sales only (Rude Girl Records)

Searching for America
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
Society's Child
From Me To You
At Seventeen
Through the Years
When the Party's Over
Married in London
Bright Lights & Promises
Tea & Sympathy
This Old Town
I Hear You Sing Again
A Candle For the Flame
I'm Still Standing
I Am the One