Bio Jane began piano lessons at age 8, then violin at age 10. She sang choir in school. She hated practicing and her teachers were frustrated, “If only Jane would apply herself,” they would say. She stopped the lessons. Jane’s mom didn’t believe in television or sugar. At age 12, Jane’s father gave her a Beatles tape: 1967-70, Strawberry Fields through the White Album. At age 14, Jane went the YMCA camp Speers Eljabar in the Pocono Mountains. All the cool kids played guitar. They would sing Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd songs. After two weeks at camp Jane knew she wanted to play guitar. “Is this going to be like the violin and the piano,” asked her parents? “No, I’ll practice every day,” she promised. They said no. With a few months of begging a family friend offered an old folk guitar from their basement. Jane was ecstatic. She saved all her money from her after school job at the health food store, and bought a Beatles learn to play guitar book. A friend showed her how simple and beautiful finger picking could be and taught her to play Blackbird. Her parents were convinced. For her 15th birthday, Jane’s dad took her to Rondo Music on route 22 in Union, NJ. Route 22 is a very dangerous and badly designed road. When Jane was 11, she was invited to a roller skating party on Route 22, during a rainstorm. She was not allowed to go. At Rondo music, the man showed Jane and her dad a black and white Japanese Stratocaster and a Fender sidekick 15 reverb amp. She began to learn Led Zeppelin songs. Jane started guitar lessons at Millburn Music in Milburn, NJ. Every week Jane’s mom would drive her to learn Stairway to Heaven, Wish You Were Here, and More than Words. Sometimes, when her mom couldn’t drive her, she would take the train. Sometimes her teachers would have ponytails. They were always men. Jane started to listen to the Grateful Dead. It resembled a better time for her of peace and tranquility. Jane had her guitar tied to her back with a piece of hemp twine. She was learning to batik. She spent a lot of time traveling in cars. At a rainbow gathering in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, Jane was in a forest fire. They followed a stream to safety. Jane hitched a ride back to town. By then, Jane had graduated from the Kent Place School for Girls, in Summit, NJ. They sent her there when she failed out of sixth grade. At Antioch College, Jane listened to her Pavement tape “Crooked Rain” every day. After seeing Sebadoh at a show in Dayton, Ohio, she asked the band to do the soundtrack for her senior thesis film, “Quarter”. They said they’d think about it. She formed a band called Irl with her best friend Kate David. They wanted to make a record called the irl next door. They were together for 3 months. This was Jane’s 2nd band. After college, Jane moved to NYC. You can see her there.