2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories

Subject: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Articles
From: Justa Picker
Date: 02 Aug 02 - 08:11 PM

Of Guitars & Righteous Men

and

Memories of Chet Atkins

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: Amos
Date: 02 Aug 02 - 08:40 PM

Man that "Guitars and Righteous Men" story just melts me apart. What a tale, and how true.   AND a happy ending. Downright inspiring!


A

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Aug 02 - 07:34 AM

Thanks for the links.

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: gnu
Date: 03 Aug 02 - 09:09 AM

Let's try that again.... Thanks for the links.

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: van lingle
Date: 03 Aug 02 - 10:03 AM

Those are great stories JP, thanks. vl

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: alanabit
Date: 03 Aug 02 - 03:00 PM

Thanks very much. Those are great stories and it's excellent prose as well.

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: Cappuccino
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 03:58 AM

She writes prose as brilliantly as she does songs. If you go to her website, although the forum can be a bit sycophantic, you find that she does actually drop in and answer questions herself. When she answered a serious question of mine, I nearly fell off my chair!!!

- Ian B

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 05:09 AM

Janis Ian is a Mudcatter, too. See This thread

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: bflat
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 06:36 AM

These stories are a window into the soul of a very beautiful person. Thank you, Justa Picker for making them available.

Ellen

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: DancingMom
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 08:34 PM

I LOVED these stories! Thank you Justa Picker, and thank you Janis. Sharon

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: M.Ted
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 03:58 PM

I went to her site for the first time, after your links, JP, and must say that it is one of the best sites ever--her writings are great, and she has written the definitive defense of MP3 sharing, and, to show that she is more than just talk. has posted some great tracks of her own--listen to her guitar/voice version of 'Society's Child" if you wonder why Chet thought so much of her guitar playing!

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 05:00 PM

As (almost) always, I concur with everything that M.Ted has said. Moreover, she is modest in the extreme when it comes to discussing her own ability on the guitar.

GUEST above is however mistaken in thinking that Janis Ian is a Mudcatter. She may well become one some day, but the posting referred to from "GUEST Janis Ian" was not in fact from her.

Murray

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: georgeward
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 12:31 AM

My thanks too,JP.I've passed 'em on.

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 08:08 AM

Absolutely marvelous! What a picture Janis paints of herself while telling about guitars and pickers.

Thanks Mike. I'm passing this on to my friends Eve and Ellen.

Rick

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: GUEST,from a smaller apple
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 10:34 AM

Justa, you are a fine picker.....and cute as well. From a fan.

Subject: RE: 2 Really Great Janis Ian Stories
From: M.Ted
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 12:15 PM

I am glad that we tend to agree Murray, as when we don't, it is at my peril--a thought that occurs to me each time I pop Tony McManus into the car CD player--have you managed to get your Cuban coffee? Yet another thing we agree on--