Liz Janes
In the last 10 years Liz has bounced all around the country. (If you ask her she'll tell you she was too west coast for the east coast, too east coast for the west coast but that the great state of Indiana, with proper fairy tale resolution, is juuust right.) It's been a busy and colorful ride. The kind of fulfilling, healthy party most honest musicians only dream of. Good bands, long tours, new friends, great songs.
Liz sums up her trajectory from piano lessons to '10 saying, “I always loved music, but then I learned to love sound. I was always too shy to sing, but then I learned to make noise. I never understood the discipline of art, and only enjoyed the spontaneous. Now discipline is my only way to access the spontaneous. This is growing up, and this is growing older. Hey the kids are alright.” This is Liz Janes—the continuing path of. The ride through life and the journey of the soul. We hope you love her music just as much as we do.
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If you ask Liz Janes about her new album, Say Goodbye, she\'ll tell you she wanted to make a soul record. Now, before you start gettin\' any James Brownian ideas, let\'s let Liz explain. Says Liz she loves noise and experimentation far too much to make it straight and, “Besides, I\'m not a real soul singer. I wanted to make music with real meaning, that would be nourishing and comforting to the listener. I wanted the music to be inspirational and full of light—without ignoring life\'s violence.” And now we present Say Goodbye. A wholly new thing. A departure from what came before and an adventure story and hard luck tale all in one. It\'s a coming of age record, a record about the loss of innocence and the insistence on staying soft, of keeping the meanness of life from ossifying your heart. This is Liz fighting to make sense of the world and offering up a goodhearted, unpretentious experimental pop record.