Society's Child tells her story - More than 40 years ago, singer-songwriter Janis Ian topped the charts with "Society's Child," a song that led racists to burn a radio station to the ground. After that she appeared singing "At Seventeen" on the very first "Saturday Night Live" broadcast (with George Carlin as host), wrote pop and country hits, and basically never stopped laying it all on the line. And she comes to town with her brand-new Sony/Legacy collection, "The Essential Janis Ian." Opening the show is the superb Nashville songwriter Gretchen Peters, who recently collaborated with folk stalwart Tom Russell on a great album of southwestern songs, "One to the Heart, One to the Head."
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