Digital Sheet Music - I Am The One in A concert staff

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The inside scoop from Janis:

Last year, when I was working with Japanese artist Angela Aki on her last album, we wrote a piece called "Every Woman's Song." (Gold in Japan now.) In part it was based on a 1979 article by Miriam Therese Winter of the Medical Mission Sisters, titled "Womenchurch." A few weeks later I got a call from Dan Paulos,who runs the St. Bernadette Institute of Sacred art. He asked whether I would record one of MT's songs for a tribute album of her music. (She was very successful in the 60's/70's, played Carnegie Hall, kind of an American Singing Nun.) Of course, I thought "How great to do a tribute to someone still living!" (She was born in '38.)

I searched and searched her catalogue but couldn't find anything that felt like it would be good enough on my voice to do her life justice. Plus, it all felt pretty dated. Then, listening to an early album, I heard the most wonderful spoken word piece. I emailed her and said "I'm pretty familiar with the Bible and I don't recall this. Sounds like it's from Ecclesiastes - where, though??" Turned out she wrote it herself.

I asked permission to set it to music, and she hesitated, saying people had been asking for almost 5 decades, and she'd always said no. I replied that if she didn't like what I did, I would set it aside forever. Then I got to work. Of course, once I began writing, it took a life of its own, and I discovered the piece wanted a third and fourth verse... yikes! With heart in hand, I went ahead and wrote as I felt it should be. Then I sent MT a very rough copy, just me at home singing into a little dictating machine... and she loved it!

What you hear in this final version was the first take, no edits, all live. I think it's one of the best things I've ever done.

Go here to listen to a sample, then purchase the full version on iTunes.

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