For those unaware, Americana artist Janie Barnett has long nurtured the dream of ushering Cole Porter’s songs of lust and longing into a roots music setting.

These sultry arrangements, which can be performed with 3-6 musicians, can shine in a vibe-full club setting, a city winery, or a Performing Arts Center, and is available for licensing to film and television projects.

Virginia native Janie Barnett has had a long run as a top NY session singer. Her freelance credits include Bonne Raitt, Linda Rondstadt, and Rickie Lee Jones, as well as numerous film and tv credits. As a teen, she cut her teeth on bluegrass festivals and church coffeehouses.

And at the American Folklife Festival she was exposed to and sat in with artists playing folk, spirituals, zydeco, bluegrass, pop and jazz. Barnett’s love affair with hybrid music forms began in this setting. She has released several albums of original music, while an in-demand freelance singer, producer, and performing artist.

Here on Under My Skin: Reimagining Cole Porter, the Cole Porter songbook is packed with love, divine sexual innuendo, wit and wisdom. Barnett has taken these exotic, quixotic and downright folksy songs and set them spinning in a hybrid Americana/Jazz landscape. The fiddle, the banjo, the old Gibson, the upright piano, the upright bass. And the dobro…that’s the longing right there.

1. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
2. Night and Day
3. In The Still of The Night
4. Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
5. You Do Something to Me
6. True Love
7 Begin the Beguine
8. Mind If I Make Love to You
9. From This Moment On
10. You’re the Top
11. I Concentrate on You
12. So In Love
13. You Do Something to Me (Live Version)
14. You’d Be So Easy To Love
15. After You. Who?
16. Do I Love You

This expertly sculpted and dutifully heartfelt new recording opens on a sultry, breathy I’ve Got You Under My Skin, the impassioned Night and Day, an aching yearn that threads throughout In The Still of The Night and the playful Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye, and they are followed by the emboldened You Do Something to Me, the delightful duet True Love, the beautiful Begin the Beguine, and then the veritably shimmering Mind If I Make Love to You is brought forth.

Along next is her sweet Americana twist on From This Moment On, the gentle dance floor swirl of You’re the Top and the doleful duet I Concentrate on You and they are in turn backed by the serene balladry of So In Love, a spirited live version of You Do Something to Me, the set coming to a close on the atmospherically-hued You’d Be So Easy To Love, the absorbent gossamer of After You. Who? and an admirable stillness is then shown within Do I Love You.

Janie Barnett - I’ve Got You Under My Skin [Official Video]

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