Who are the great songwriters in America today? Not the most popular, not the richest. Simply the greats. Janis Ian would definitely be included as a nine-time Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and still a formidable talent.

She is the writer of Jesse, an ode to impassioned commitment made famous by Roberta Flack, Stars - possibly the best song ever written about the life of a performer and recorded by artists as diverse as Mel Torme and Cher - and the seminal At Seventeen a song that brought her two Grammys and which is now reaching its third generation of listeners.

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