Teenager

TEENAGER is a collection of songs Jane Siberry wrote in her teens, and recorded in 1996.Personnel: Jane Siberry (vocals, guitar, piano); Rebecca Campbell (vocals); Peter Kiesewalter (accordion).Recorded at Reaction Studios, Toronto, Canada. Includes liner notes by Jane Siberry.One of the oddest records in Jane Siberry's oddball career--so unusual that Siberry explains the album's genesis in a spoken introduction--TEENAGER is a collection of songs that the Toronto-based singer-songwriter wrote in her early to mid-teens, during the late '60s and early '70s. It's the first album Siberry released on her own after leaving a critically acclaimed but commercially negligible stint at Warner Brothers, and perhaps some closet cleaning was due.Inevitably, the songs most recall her self-titled 1981 debut, the most folk-oriented album of her career, which is a good thing. Also inevitably, the lyrics sound like they were written by a sensitive and artistic teenager, and that's not necessarily a good