Janis Ian

Features

Part 2: Janis Ian to Jimi Hendrix (1966-1970)

By PopMatters Staff

Music truly is the universal language. The best songs of protest are passed around, from movement-to-movement, era-to-era; its singers gaining multilingual fluency along the way. [17 July 2007]

Reviews

Janis Ian: The Essential Janis Ian

By Lisa Torem

Unfortunately, Ian -- then only 16 -- never got to Woodstock. But time-travel through the turbulence and tranquility of that era can be realized through many of these tracks. [10 September 2009]

Janis Ian: The Best of Janis Ian

By Evan Sawdey

It makes for a surprisingly meaty chunk of pop-folk that has aged quite gracefully. [19 September 2008]

Janis Ian: Folk Is the New Black

By Daniel Spicer

If you like your folk music disguised as a cynically unimaginative, woefully uninteresting attempt at securing radio airplay, then this is the album for you. [1 March 2006]