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Janis Ian On Mountain Stage Though she jokes about being a has-been by the age of 17, Janis Ian has evolved as an artist and humanitarian and continues to make records today. Here, on her fifth and most recent visit to Mountain Stage, she performs a live set that includes her signature song, "At Seventeen."
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Janis Ian On Mountain Stage

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SET LIST

  • "Society's Child"
  • "Silly Habits"
  • "I Hear You Sing Again"
  • "At Seventeen"

Janis Ian begins her fifth appearance on Mountain Stage with a recitation from her autobiography, named after a hit song she wrote when she was 14: "Society's Child." As you'll hear in her introduction, the song was received "loudly," because the girl at the center of the song enters into a relationship with a person of another race.

Janis Ian scored her biggest hit with the 1975 single "At Seventeen." Brian Blauser hide caption

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Though she jokes about being a has-been by the age of 17, Ian has evolved as an artist and humanitarian and continues to make records today. Her first career-spanning retrospective, Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection, was released earlier this year as a companion to the book.

This segment originally ran Oct. 27, 2008.

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Special Series

Mountain Stage

West Virginia Public Broadcasting presents live concerts: folk, country and the blues