by Tom Watson. Janet Robin is a working musician. She plays guitar, sings, writes, produces, records, promotes and spends time on the road. She's a professional. Music pays her bills. It feeds her stomach and her soul. Robin's career reflects the decades it's been through: garage bands in the '70s; rock (mild to heavy) and a touch of glam in the '80s; touring with Lindsey Buckingham, a shift to singer-songwriter mode and Lilith Fair in the '90s; and now, in the '00s, a commitment to DIY writing, producing, recording, promoting, and purusing new opportunities in those fields via the digital revolution. She's born (1966) and raised in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley, so I have to wonder: What turns a potentially straight-up Valley Girl into a music business...