Uncle Wonderful

Uncle Wonderful
Studio album by
Janis Ian
Released1985
Recorded1981–1983
Studio
  • Studio 55, Los Angeles
  • Track Studios, Los Angeles
  • Wilder Bros. Studios, Los Angeles
Genre
Length40:54
LabelInterfusion
Producer
  • Brooks Arthur
  • Janis Ian
  • Arti Funaro
Janis Ian chronology
Restless Eyes
(1981) 		Uncle Wonderful
(1985) 		Breaking Silence
(1993)

Uncle Wonderful is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian, and her first after departing from Columbia Records.[a]

Recorded between 1981 and 1983 at a time when Janis was seeking a break from the music business after continual recording and touring between 1974 and 1981,[1] according to Society’s Child: My Autobiography Janis cannot recall the details of making Uncle Wonderful, for she was focused upon the death of her grandmother and was consistently travelling from coast to coast.[2] Uncle Wonderful would be rejected by Columbia – with whom Ian at the time had a contract for four more albums[3] – and initially released only in New Zealand in 1985 and Australia in 1986. Uncle Wonderful would not receive a release in Europe until 1995 after Janis’ second comeback with Breaking Silence, and would in 2010 receive a further UK release by Edsel Records as part of a compilation with her two preceding albums Night Rains and Restless Eyes. Although she would return to performing in the United States in 1986,[4] playing mostly her new material in a series of shows supported by the then-unknown Indigo Girls, Uncle Wonderful has never been released there.[1]


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  1. ^ a b Devault, Russ (1986-08-09). "Janis Ian...At 35: You Can Still Hear the Refrain of "Society's Child"". Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta. p. 20.
  2. ^ Ian, Janis: Society’s Child: My Autobiography, p. 244 ISBN 9781585427499
  3. ^ Holder, Stephen (1989-06-24). "At 38: Janis Ian's First Big Hit Looked Back, but Now She's Only Looking Ahead". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. p. 8D.
  4. ^ Windeler, Robert (1986-07-18). "Fast Talk". USA Weekend. Chicago. p. 3.