Tuesday, March 1, 2022

The teen age author of a perfect song

"‘I wanted to try cocaine, but Jimi was against it’: Janis Ian on her tough, starlit life in music   Hendrix and Janis Joplin warned her off drugs, she sang for James Brown and Salvador Dalí offered to paint her. Janis Ian’s confessional folk-pop is still sensational – so why is she retiring from recording?" Sarfraz Manzoor

Her opening is breathtaking: 

"I learned the truth at seventeen

That love was meant for beauty queens

And high school girls with clear skinned smiles

Who married young and then retired..."

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