NP but Janis Ian, black as night and other misc. stuff

[Joseph Tracy]

I liked Janis Ian, had 2 of her albums.. First time I went to the Philadelphia folk festival she played, along with Blind Gary Davis, Jean Redpath, Spider John Koerner, Doc and Merle, whole lot of good music. 
On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Come to my door, baby
> Face is clean and black as night
>                    ---Society's Child, Janis Ian
>  
> Her producer was Shadow(!) Morton........
> lived in Lakewood ,New Jersey for a time of her youth.
>  
> And had a 'revelation' as a young girl: "Suddenly, in one huge gestalt,
> I realized that each drop of water in the creek would never be in that place again"
> ........"Everything was totally in its place, and so was I. Everything was right. I woke up [mentally. she wasn't sleeping]."
>  
> [Grace, transcendant kind]--- "And in that moment I knew God was there, around me and inside me." 
> Some graceful experiences are all alike, eh?
>  
> A..and she was molested by a dentist as a girl...his particular evil was to get her to tell him
> she 'liked' his hands groping, stroking her, a lot, which would excite him to go jerk off in the bathroom.
> "then he did something that still makes my stomach turn over. He held the big drill over my molar, and told
> me I was now going to see whatr happened to disobedient girls. The part of me in The Waiting Room [she
> self-dissociated via his original 'help' before this] was going to feel everything, just like always, but this I'd
> feel it, too. Then he plowed into that molar like there was no tomorrow."
>  
> I wonder if she read V.? She was/is a voracious reader; an adult librarian used her card to check out books
> fast enough for her when she was young. She is a member of the Women's Nat Book Association even now
> in Nashville where she lives.....