Re: SoJ/I, Week One: "Jane Siberry"

I think the "Jane Siberry" album is quite a feat considering she recorded it
in a friend's basement on eight track, doing all of the vocal harmonys,
financing it with money she earned waiting tables.  It took eight months to
record.  She used to sell it at her shows back in the eighties.  I still
have my casette copy.  There are many great songs on it but the standout,
for me, has always been *The Mystery at Ogwen's Farm*.  I think the songs
used in the Anthology blend nicely with the rest of the tracks and I love
the prequel to *Ogwen's - Besse*.

David

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Michael Williams <[email protected]>wrote:

> jane's "original 1980 recording", with nine tracks.
>
> i bought it a while after i was already "into" jane. the songs are
> deceptively simple - "marco polo" seems light years away from more complex
> jane compositions, but on the other hand some of the songs have a simple yet
> deep beauty - "above the treeline", for example. (given the current state of
> the world, the line "send some good things down on this earth tonight" seems
> even more relevant and heartfelt now then when i first heard it.)
>
> i wouldn't put this album anywhere near my favorites of jane's. yet it
> still seems like a vital and important milestone, with some of its passions
> about nature resurfacing in "bound by the beauty" and some of its quirkiness
> soon revisited in "no borders here".
>
> i've never explicitly thought about juxtaposing these songs with jane's
> later "teenager"...an endeavor for another day, perhaps.