Folk music icon Janis Ian, performing on Mountain Stage as part of her final tour in April 2021. This week’s encore episode of Mountain Stage was recorded in Morgantown, WV last April on the campus of ...

Janis Ian’s song “At Seventeen” spoke to audiences of all kinds and had a universal relevance. Janis Ian wrote “At Seventeen” about the “pain of adolescence” and not fitting in, but the themes of the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...

Janis Ian is having the last word. Now 70, Ian has been a touring and recording force since her teens, earning nine Grammy nominations and two wins and having two of her songs, 1967's “Society’s Child ...

Singer-songwriters Janis Ian and Tom Rush took the stage together for an encore after Ian’s hourlong headlining set last night in the Southern Theatre for “Better Times Will Come.” It was a song she ...

As part of NPR's series "One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs," NPR Music's Ann Powers nominates "Jesse" by Janis Ian. She's known mostly for her... Janis Ian Was More Than Just A Teenager Morning ...

Jewish singer/songwriter Janis Ian is best known for her hit song “At Seventeen,” but she also wrote and performed a song about a Holocaust victim titled “Tattoo.” Ian teams with singer Tom Paxton ...

Many child stars have not had happy second chapters. Drugs, arrest records, sad attempts to jump-start careers. And then there is Janis Ian -— a child star with a hit record ("Society's Child" in 1967 ...

A double interview with two great songwriters together, Janis Ian and Stan Ridgway, about use of gender designation in song, and other issues. The following interview was conducted in 1999 though ...

Morning Edition's series called One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers in the United States are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their ...