All Roads To The River Ride Me Like A Wave Tattoo Guess You Had To Be There What About The Love His Hands Walking On Sacred Ground This Train Still Runs Through The Years This House Some People's Lives Breaking Silence * BONUS! RIDE ME LIKE A WAVE - WET MIX (DANCE) * BONUS! THIS TRAIN STILL RUNS - LIVE WITH BAND!! This is re-mastered from the analogue tapes and the same or better than the more expensive "gold disc". The basics: Produced by Janis Ian & Jeff Balding; recorded in Nashville during 1992; released worldwide in 1993. The album received wonderful reviews and a Grammy nomination "Best Contemporary Folk Album - Breaking Silence". "Some People's Lives" became the title song of a double-platinum album for Bette Midler; "What About the Love" was featured on a platinum album by Amy Grant. "All Roads To the River" was originally recorded for the film "Falling From Grace" with John Mellencamp producing, and charted top 30 on the Gavin Chart; it was also recorded by Mellencamp himself under the title "To the River". "Tattoo" was chosen by the government of Holland to represent their country in European festivities celebrating the 50th anniversary of World War II end. Voted Album of the Year by the Nashville Music Awards. Inside scoop: Janis had moved to Nashville in 1988, completely broke and in ill health. There she met Pat Snyder (they married in 2003 and are still going strong). Both in debt, they slowly began crawling out of their financial holes. By 1991 they'd managed to put a down payment on a house; they took out a second mortgage to fund the making of this album. Breaking Silence touches on many controversial themes - "His Hands" deals with spousal abuse, "Breaking Silence" with incest, "Tattoo" with the Holocaust. As Janis says, I thought I was only going to get one more chance to record, so I wanted to make it count. All of those songs are currently in use by various schools, therapists, and institutions, under free licenses from Janis and her publishing company. "All Roads to the River" was written while Janis was watching Jean Genet's "The Maids", starring Susannah York and Glenda Jackson. And "Ride Me Like A Wave", a huge in-concert favourite, almost didn't make the album! No one but Janis and Jim Brock, wanted the song recorded; everyone felt it was "too overt for a woman to sing". This is out of print in the US now, which is really silly, since it's a Grammy nominee - in addition to still being used by audio companies to test their equipment! To maintain the audio quality of our own imports, we can proudly say that our version here is identical to - or better than - the audiophile version released a while back. Ours is also completely re-mastered from the original analog source, and every bit as good as the "gold" version. Maybe even better, since Janis oversaw this one! |