![]() We sat there slack-jawed as Janis unleashed a barrage of guitar histrionics that crossed a line - to borrow a phrase from Star Trek - where no folkie has ever gone before. Who uses a wah-wah pedal with an acoustic? Uhh… that would be …Janis Ian. I don’t know if we noticed the wah-wah pedal right away. I’d never heard a guitar sound like that. She took center stage and began playing fingerstyle guitar with an almost impossibly pristine sound. ![]() Most of us were ignorant about another area of Janis's expertise… the deep guitar chops. Janis, we knew, as a great singer and gifted writer, would more than hold her own. Tom is, of course, one of the grand wizards of the songwriting genre, funny and eloquent. Lured by a bill that included Tom Paxton and Janis Ian, we knew we were in for an evening of top-notch folk music. Somewhere around 1999 or the early 2000s I went with a group of co-workers to an early show at the now-defunct, sorely-missed Manhattan nightclub, The Bottom Line. As a lightning bolt of illumination splits the sky, a thunderclap of enlightenment follows.
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