Track Listing
1. All Roads to the River
2. Ride Me Like a Wave
3. Tattoo
4. Guess You Had to Be There
5. What About the Love?
6. His Hands
7. Walking on Sacred Ground
8. This Train Still Runs
9. Through the Years
10. This House
11. Some People's Lives - (live)
12. Breaking Silence
| Details | | Playing Time: | 48 min. | | Producer: | Janis Ian, Jeff Balding | | Distributor: | Bayside Record Dist. | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Janis Ian (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano), Dan Huff (electric guitar), Jim Hoke (harmonica), Chad Watson (bass, slide bass), Jim Brock (drums, percussion).
Recorded at Nightingale Studio, Schnee Studio, Omni Studio and Quad Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.
All songs written or co-written by Janis Ian.
Personnel: Janis Ian (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano); Dan Huff (electric guitar); Jim Hoke (harmonica); Chad Watson (bass); Jim Brock (drums, percussion).
All songs have been digitally remastered.
Composers: Rhonda Fleming; Jeff Balding; Jess Leary; Jon Vezner.
Personnel: Janis Ian (guitar, acoustic guitar, piano); Dann Huff (electric guitar); Jim Hoke (harmonica); Jim Brock (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Jeff Balding.
Recording information: Nightingale Recording Studio, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: Lisa Powers.
Breaking Silence finds Ian ditching her past waifishness for a confident, mature, contemporary acoustic approach relying mostly on spare guitar and piano textures. Opening with "All Roads to the River" (also recorded by John Mellencamp), Breaking Silence includes among its highlights the Holocaust-survivor tale "Tattoo" and the dramatic half-a cappella, half-syncopated-rocker title track. ~ Roch Parisien
Editorial Reviews
3 1/2 Stars - Very Good - ...a somewhat quiet, haunted work in which the displays of raw musical power are far fewer than the slow, sure, frequently lovely glides of melody and memory in which a happy ending can often be discerned...
Rolling Stone (09/16/1993)
3 Stars - Good - ...there's a subdued panic here [on BREAKING SILENCE]...while [Janis] Ian has clearly triumphed over adversity, her songs still sound half in love with their doubt and despair...
Q (09/01/1993)
...Whether it's an erotic confessional or a clenched-teeth tale of abuse, Ian's low-key delivery is a rare example of songwriting that's more substance than attitude... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (07/16/1993)
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