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The Ark
12/12/2009 8:00 PM at Janis Ian
316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Cost: $23
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. "How rare is a truly bare heart," Rolling Stone wrote of a recent Ian appearance: "On the Tonight Show, Ian looked, as she always did, at once paralyzingly shy and like a gun about to go off." Janis recently released a new book, "Society’s Child: My Autobiography," and new CD, "Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection," containing several new songs and lots of great new stories from one of the great truth-tellers in the music world. 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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