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 ...

Singer-songwriter Janis Ian has had four distinct chapters in her musical career. The first began when she was in her teens with the release of her groundbreaking single "Society's Child," and the ...

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 ...

Two-time Grammy award winner Janis Ian joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about her creative process, Lennon and McCartney, her new album and more on “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me ...

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 ...

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 ...

Janis Ian will receive a lifetime achievement award at the International Folk Music Awards, which will be held at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 1 – the ...