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 ...

Aided by archival footage, photographs, and reenactments of Ian’s recollections, the 111-minute film charts Ian’s decades-spanning career — from formative summers at “peace and love, Woodstock” camps ...

Janis Ian recorded “Society’s Child” in 1965 when she was 14 years old and released it in 1966. The following year it reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart Six decades, multiple albums and ...

…Janis Ian makes all kinds of predictions seem reasonable with her new single, “Janie’s Blues.” It’s a stunningly produced (by Shadow Morton) ballad about an unwanted child, a mistake “on the day ...