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  Allen Ginsberg
  Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. In the 1950s, Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat Generation, an anarchic group of young men and women who joined poetry, song, sex, wine and illicit drugs with passionate political ideas that championed personal freedoms. Ginsberg's epic poem Howl, in which he celebrates his fellow "angel-headed hipsters" and excoriates what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States, is one of the classic poems of the Beat Generation The poem, dedicated to writer Carl Solomon, has a memorable opening:
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  Amy Adams
  Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress and singer. Adams began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. After a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, she landed the role of Brenda Strong in 2002's Catch Me If You Can, but her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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  Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.
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  Bette Midler
  Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. She has starred in live-action films such as Ruthless People, Beaches and Hocus Pocus, as well as featuring in animated films such as Oliver & Company and Fantasia 2000.
  http://wn.com/Bette_Midler
• Bhaktivedanta Swami
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• Big Mama Thornton
  Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952. The song was #1 on the Billboard R&B; charts for seven weeks. The B-side was "They Call Me Big Mama," and the single sold almost two million copies. Three years later, Elvis Presley recorded his version, based on a version performed by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys. In a similar occurrence, she wrote and recorded "Ball 'n' Chain," which became a hit for her. Janis Joplin later recorded "Ball and Chain," and was a huge success in the late 1960s.
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• Bob Shad
  Bob Shad (February 12, 1920 – March 13, 1985) was an American music producer and record label owner. He produced the first album by Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin). Among his more successful labels were Time Records, Brent Records,and Mainstream Records.
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  Carl Bernstein
  Carl Bernstein ( ) (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, at The Washington Post, teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did the majority of the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations, the indictment of a vast number of White House Officians such as H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, and John Mitchell, and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards; his work helped earn the Post a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.
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  Cass Elliot
  Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), born Ellen Naomi Cohen and also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and member of The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she had a successful solo career, releasing five studio albums. Elliot was found dead in her room in London from an apparent heart attack after two weeks of sold-out performances at the Palladium. In 1998, the four members of the group were inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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  Chet Helms
  Chester Leo "Chet" Helms (August 2, 1942 – June 25, 2005), often called the father of San Francisco's "1967 Summer of Love," was a music promoter and a cultural figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the late Sixties.
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  Country Joe McDonald
  Country Joe McDonald (born Joseph Allen McDonald; January 1, 1942) was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish.
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• D.A. Pennebaker
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  Dale Evans
  Dale Evans was the stage name of Lucille Wood Smith (October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001), an American writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.
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  Dick Cavett
  Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is a former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.
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  Elvin Bishop
  Elvin Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.
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  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
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• Eric Andersen
  Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter.
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• Fernando Meirelles
  Fernando Meirelles (born November 9, 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian film director.
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  G. W. Bailey
  George William "G. W." Bailey (born August 27, 1944) is a stage, television and film actor. Although he appeared in many dramatic roles, he may be best remembered for his "crusty" comedic characters such as Staff Sergeant Luther Rizzo in M*A*S*H (TV-Series 1979 - 1983); Lieutenant—and later, Captain—Thaddeus Harris in Police Academy (1984–1994), and Captain Felix Maxwell in Mannequin (1987). He currently stars on the TNT series The Closer (he has known Closer creator James Duff since 1972, when he was his high-school instructor in Lubbock, Texas and has also known co-star Tony Denison for several years).
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• Grace Slick
  Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Slick was an important figure in the 1960s psychedelic rock genre, and is known for her witty lyrics and powerful contralto vocals.
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• James Gurley
  James Gurley (December 22, 1939 – December 20, 2009) was an American musician. He is best known as the guitar player of Big Brother and the Holding Company, a psychedelic/acid rock band from San Francisco which was fronted by singer Janis Joplin from 1966 to 1968.
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  Jerry Garcia
  Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group.
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  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres. After initial success in Europe, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.
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• Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
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  John Lennon
  John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles and, with Paul McCartney, formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
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• Jon Pareles
  Jon Pareles is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of the New York Times. He played jazz flute and piano, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in music. In the 1970s he was an associate editor of Crawdaddy!, and in the 1980s an associate editor at Rolling Stone and the music editor at The Village Voice. He currently reviews popular music in the arts section of the New York Times.
  http://wn.com/Jon_Pareles
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  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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  Jorma Kaukonen
  Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. (born December 23, 1940, Washington, D.C.) is an American blues, folk and rock guitarist, and an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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• Laura Branigan
  Laura Ann Branigan (July 3, 1957 – August 26, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control". Branigan is also remembered for the Top 10 "Solitaire," and for the number-one Adult Contemporary hit "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You", as well as four other US Top 40 hits.
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• Leadbelly
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  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Famously reclusive, having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and possessing a persona frequently associated with mystique, he is extremely well-regarded by critics for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career.
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• Lyle Tuttle
  Lyle Tuttle (born 1931) is a well-known American tattoo artist and historian of the medium, who has been tattooing since 1949.
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  Michael McClure
  Michael McClure (born October 20, 1932 in Marysville, Kansas) is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and is immortalized as "Pat McLear" in Kerouac's Big Sur.
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• Nick Gravenites
  Nicholas George Gravenites (; born October 2, 1938, Chicago, Illinois), with stage names like Nick "The Greek" Gravenites and Gravy, is a blues, rock and folk singer–songwriter, and is best known for his work with Janis Joplin, Mike Bloomfield and several influential bands and names of the generation springing from the 1960s and 1970s. He currently resides in Occidental, California.
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• nigger
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• Odetta
  Odetta Holmes, (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008) known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she was influential musically and ideologically to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.
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  Otis Redding
  Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer. Often called the "King of Soul", he is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." In addition, rock critic Jon Landau said in 1967, "Otis Redding is rock & roll". Redding died in a plane crash at the age of 26, one month before his biggest hit, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", was released.
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• P!nk
  http://wn.com/P!nk
• Paul A. Rothchild
  Paul A. Rothchild (April 18, 1935 - March 30, 1995) was a prominent American record producer of the late 1960s and 1970s.
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• Penelope Spheeris
  Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization. She has also directed feature films, including ''Wayne's World'', her highest grossing film.
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• Ralph J. Gleason
  Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was an influential American jazz and pop music critic. He contributed for many years to the San Francisco Chronicle, was a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival.
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  Renée Zellweger
  Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy ''Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), which she reprised in its sequel (2004) and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002), and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain'' (2003).
  http://wn.com/Renée_Zellweger
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  Richie Havens
  Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941) is an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style (in open tuning), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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• Rick Danko
  Richard Clare "Rick" Danko (December 29, 1942 – December 10, 1999) was a Canadian musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band.
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  Robert Crumb
  Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) — known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb — is an American artist, illustrator and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.
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• Sam Andrew
  Sam Andrew (born Sam Houston Andrew III, 18 December 1941, in Taft, California, U.S.) is a musician, singer, songwriter, composer, artist and founding member and guitarist of Big Brother and the Holding Company. During his career as musician and composer, Andrew has had three platinum albums and two hit singles. His songs have been used in numerous major motion picture soundtracks and documentaries.
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  Stevie Nicks
  Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 120 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics.
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  Tina Turner
  Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title '''The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll'''.
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  Zooey Deschanel
  Zooey Claire Deschanel (; born January 17, 1980) is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her break out role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi autobiographical film Almost Famous. Deschanel soon became known for her deadpan supporting roles in films such as Elf (2003), ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Failure to Launch (2006). She then began playing lead roles in films, including Yes Man (2008) and (500) Days of Summer'' (2009).
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  Austin, Texas
  Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the fifteenth most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. Austin has a population of 786,382 (2009 U.S. Census estimate). The city is the cultural and economic center of the metropolitan area, with a population of 1,750,224 (2009 U.S. Census estimate), making it the 35th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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• Avalon Ballroom
  The Avalon Ballroom is a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California at 1268 Sutter Street, on the north side, one building east of the corner of Van Ness Avenue. The space operated from 1966 to 1968, and reopened in 2003. Large events include Pagan Fest USA that is held in May.
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  Beaumont, Texas
  Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 113,866 at the 2000 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the Gulf Coast.
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  Boston
  Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. Boston city proper had a 2009 estimated population of 645,169, making it the twentieth largest in the country. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
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  Brazil
  Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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  Calgary
  Calgary () is the largest city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The city is located in the Grassland region of Alberta.
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  Chicago
  Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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• Fillmore West
  The Fillmore West was an historic music venue in San Francisco, California made famous by concert promoter Bill Graham. Named after Graham's original "Fillmore" location at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard, it stood at Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue and was formerly known as both The Carousel Ballroom and El Patio.
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  Haight-Ashbury
  Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, USA, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is commonly called The Haight, and is known to residents as the Upper Haight.
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  Hollywood Bowl
  The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States that is used primarily for music performances. It has a seating capacity of 17,376.
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  Larkspur, California
  Larkspur is a city in Marin County, California, United States. Larkspur is located south of San Rafael, at an elevation of . As of 2006, the city's estimated population was 11,746. Larkspur is located north of San Francisco near Mount Tamalpais. Larkspur's Police Department is shared with that of the neighboring Corte Madera. Adjacent to Larkspur's downtown is Madrone Canyon, which is a residential area and a redwood grove.
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• Mantra-Rock Dance
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  Massachusetts
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of 6.6 million lives in the Boston metropolitan area. The eastern half of the state consists of urban, suburban, and rural areas, while Western Massachusetts is mostly rural. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third among U.S. states in GDP per capita.
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  Port Arthur, Texas
  Port Arthur is a city in Jefferson County within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area of the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 57,755 at the 2000 census.
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  Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico ( or ), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( — literally Associated Free State of Puerto Rico), is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.
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• Queens, New York
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  Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro ("River of January", ; ), commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, 6th largest in the Americas and 26th in the world.
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  Seattle
  Seattle ( ) is the northernmost major city in the contiguous United States, and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest and in the state of Washington. A seaport situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth "Seattle", of the Duwamish and Suquamish native tribes. Seattle is the center of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan statistical area, the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the northwestern United States. Seattle is the county seat of King County and is the major economic, cultural and educational center in the region. , the city's population was approximately 617,000 within a metropolitan area of some 3.4 million inhabitants. The Port of Seattle and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport are major gateways to Asia, Alaska, and the rest of the world.
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• Stinson Beach
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  Toronto
  Toronto (, colloquially or ) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which is home to over 8.1 million residents—approximately 25% of Canada's population. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,113,149, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 5,555,912 in the 2006 Census.
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• UC Berkeley
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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  Vancouver
  Vancouver () is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s. The name Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch "van Coevorden", denoting somebody from Coevorden, a city in the Netherlands.
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• Whitney Museum
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  Winnipeg
  Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than sixty percent of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers (a point now commonly known as The Forks).
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• Winterland
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• Winterland Ballroom
  The Winterland Ballroom, often referred to as Winterland Arena or simply Winterland, was an old ice skating rink and 5,400 seat music venue in San Francisco, California. Located at the corner of Post Street and Steiner Street, it was converted to exclusive use as a music venue in 1971 by rock promoter Bill Graham. The building was demolished years ago and replaced with condominiums.
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  Woodstock Festival
  Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.
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• a cappella
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• Nick Gravenites
• nigger
• Odetta
• Off Broadway
• Off-Broadway
• Otis Redding
• P!nk
• Palace of Fine Arts
• Paul A. Rothchild
• Paul Butterfield
• Pearl (album)
• Penelope Spheeris
• Peter Albin
• Piece of My Heart
• Platinum album
• Plume (publishing)
• pool table
• Porsche 356
• Port Arthur, Texas
• Psychedelic art
• psychedelic rock
• psychoactive drugs
• Puerto Rico
• Queens, New York
• Ralph J. Gleason
• Record Collector
• registrar (academic)
• Renée Zellweger
• Richie Havens
• Rick Danko
• Rio Carnival
• Rio de Janeiro
• Robert Crumb
• Rolling Stone
• Sam Andrew
• Seattle
• serge
• Shea Stadium
• Simon & Schuster
• sociology
• Sony Music
• soul music
• Southern Comfort
• Stax Records
• Stevie Nicks
• Stinson Beach
• Summer of Love
• tattoo
• Texaco
• The Band
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• The Daily Texan
• The Dick Cavett Show
• The Doors
• The Grateful Dead
• The Guardian
• The Harvard Crimson
• The New York Times
• The Rose (film)
• The Typewriter Tape
• Time Warner
• Tina Turner
• Toronto
• UC Berkeley
• United States
• Vancouver
• Villard (imprint)
• Vogue (magazine)
• Washington Post
• Whitney Museum
• Will (law)
• Winnipeg
• Winterland
• Winterland Ballroom
• wiped
• Woodstock (album)
• Woodstock (film)
• Woodstock Festival
• Zooey Deschanel

• Little Girl Blue
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Call on Me
• Bye Bye Baby
• Piece of My Heart
• Magic of Love (live)
• Coo Coo
• Move Over
• Kozmic Blues
• Trouble in Mind
• Get It While You Can
• Mercedez Benz (remix)
• Turtle Blues
• Easy Rider
• Catch Me Daddy (live)
• All Is Loneliness
• Tell Mama (live)
• Ball and Chain (live)
• Summertime (live)
• Our First Record Is Finally Out

• Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
• Cry Baby
• Women Is Losers
• Summertime
• The Last Time
• I Need A Man To Love
• As Good As You've Been To This World
• Mercedez Benz
• Trust Me
• One Good Man
• Down On Me
• Half Moon
• Kozmic Blues (live)
• Me And Bobby Mcgee (acoustic Demo)
• To Love Somebody (live)
• Raise Your Hand (Live)
• Piece Of My Heart (live)
• Maybe (Live)
• Farewell Song
• The Last Letter (Really Rushin' Through)

• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Maybe
• One Good Man
• As Good as You've Been to This World
• To Love Somebody
• Kozmic Blues
• Little Girl Blue
• Work Me, Lord

• Down on Me
• Coo Coo
• Women Is Losers
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Ball and Chain (live)
• Roadblock
• Misery'n
• I Need a Man to Love
• Summertime
• Flower in the Sun (live)
• Farewell Song (live)
• Raise Your Hand (live)
• To Love Somebody (live)
• Kozmic Blues (live)
• Piece of My Heart

• Me and Bobby McGee
• Cry Baby
• Kozmic Blues
• Move Over
• Mercedes Benz
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Get It While You Can
• Down on Me (live)
• Ball and Chain (live)
• Summertime
• Mary Jane
• Piece of My Heart

• Piece of My Heart
• Cry Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• One Good Man
• Move Over
• I Need a Man to Love
• Turtle Blues
• A Woman Left Lonely
• One Night Stand

• Piece of My Heart
• Cry Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• One Good Man
• Move Over
• I Need a Man to Love
• Turtle Blues
• A Woman Left Lonely
• One Night Stand

• Bye, Bye Baby
• Easy Rider
• Intuder
• Light Is Faster Than Sound
• Call on Me
• Women Is Losers
• Blindman
• Down on Me
• Caterpillar
• All Is Loneliness
• Coo Coo (single)
• The Last Time (single)
• Call on Me (alternate take)
• Bye, Bye Baby (alternate take)

• Turtle Blues
• One Good Man
• Maybe
• Oh, Sweet Mary
• Cry Baby
• Ball And Chain
• Trouble In Mind
• Down On Me
• Bye Bye Baby
• Raise Your Hand
• Get It White
• Half Moon
• Trust Me

• What Good Can Drinkin' Do
• (I Bring the News)
• Down on Me
• (I'm Somebody Important)
• Women Is Losers
• (Our First Record Is Finally Out)
• Piece of My Heart
• (I'm Sorry, Sorry)
• (A Happening)
• Summertime
• (He's a Beatle, Mother)
• Ball and Chain
• (I May Be a Star Someday)
• A Woman Left Lonely
• (Twenty-Five)
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• (Did I Tell You About My Reviews?)
• Little Girl Blue
• (Twenty-Seven)
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Mercedes Benz
• The Last Letter (Really Rushin' Through)
• Get It While You Can

• Me and Bobby McGee
• Cry Baby
• Kozmic Blues
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Get It While You Can
• Down on Me (live)
• Ball and Chain (live)
• Mary Jane
• Move Over
• Summertime
• Piece of My Heart
• Mercedes Benz

• Piece of My Heart
• Summertime
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Cry Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Down on Me (live)
• Get It While You Can
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Move Over
• Ball and Chain (live)
• Maybe
• Mercedes Benz (live)

• Mercedes Benz
• Cry Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Try
• Summertime
• Move Over
• Down on Me
• Ball and Chain
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Get It While You Can
• My Baby
• Trust Me
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Half Moon
• Kozmic Blues
• Ego Rock
• Piece of My Heart

• Me And Bobby McGee
• Mercedes Benz
• Kozmic Blues
• Ball And Chain (Live)
• Work Me, Lord
• Move Over
• Summertime
• Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
• To Love Somebody
• Cry Baby
• I Need A Man To Love (Live)
• Little Girl Blue
• Oh, Sweet Mary
• Piece Of My Heart

• Me and Bobby McGee
• Move Over
• Kozmic Blues
• Piece of My Heart
• Down on Me
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• My Baby
• Ball and Chain
• I'll Drown in My Own Tears
• Maybe
• To Love Somebody
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Raise Your Hand
• Magic of Love
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Buried Alive in the Blues

• Cry Baby
• Get It While You Can
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Piece of My Heart
• Down on Me
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• My Baby
• Kozmic Blues
• Ball & Chain
• I'll Drown in My Own Tears
• Maybe
• To Love Somebody
• Raise Your Hand (live)
• Magic of Love
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Buried Alive in the Blues

• Summertime
• To Love Somebody
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Turtle Blues
• I Need a Man to Love
• Combination of the Two
• One Good Man
• Kozmic Blues
• Maybe
• Oh, Sweet Mary
• As Good as You've Been to This World
• Little Girl Blue
• Work Me, Lord
• Piece of My Heart

• Me and Bobby McGee
• Cry Baby
• Kozmic Blues
• Move Over
• Mercedes Benz
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Get It While You Can
• Down on Me (live)
• Piece of My Heart
• Ball and Chain (live)
• Summertime
• Mary Jane

• Trouble in Mind
• Down on Me
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Ball and Chain (live)
• I Need a Man to Love
• Summertime (alternate version)
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• One Good Man
• Kozmic Blues
• Raise Your Hand (live)
• Piece of My Heart
• Tell Mama (live)
• Move Over
• Mercedes Benz
• Get It While You Can
• Half Moon
• Trust Me
• Me and Bobby McGee (acoustic demo)

• What Good Can Drinkin' Do
• Trouble in Mind
• Hesitation Blues
• Easy Rider
• Coo Coo
• Down on Me
• The Last Time
• All Is Loneliness
• Call on Me (live)
• Women Is Losers
• Intruder
• Light Is Faster Than Sound
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Farewell Song (take 3)
• Flower in the Sun (live)
• Misery'n (alternate version)
• Road Block (live)
• Ball and Chain (live)

• Tell Mama
• Magic of Love
• Misery'N
• One Night Stand
• Harry
• Raise Your Hand
• Farewell Song
• Medley: Amazing Grace / Hi Heel Sneakers
• Catch Me Daddy

• Summertime
• Cry Baby
• Piece of My Heart
• Try
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Down on Me
• Mercedes Benz
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Move Over
• Ball and Chain
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Half Moon
• My Baby
• Buried Alive in the Blues
• Trust Me
• Get It While You Can
• Little Girl Blues
• Time
• My Own Tears
• Come Back

• Ball and Chain
• Summertime (From Porgy and Bess)
• Mary Jane
• Piece of My Heart
• Catch Me Daddy
• Down on Me
• Tell Mama
• Magic of Love
• One Night Stand
• Raise Your Hand
• Kozmic Blues
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Women Is Losers
• Bye Bye Baby

• Apple of My Eye
• 219 Train
• Codine
• Down and Out
• Turtle Blues
• I Ain't Got No Worry
• Brownsville

• Mercedes Benz
• Ball and Chain
• Rap on 'Try'
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Summertime
• Albert Hall Interview
• Cry Baby
• Move Over
• Dick Cavett T.V. Interview
• Piece of My Heart
• Port Arthur High School Reunion
• Maybe
• Me and Bobby McGee

• Piece of My Heart
• Summertime
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Cry Baby
• Ball and Chain
• Move Over
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Half Moon
• My Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Mercedes Benz
• Trust Me
• Get It While You Can
• Down on Me
• Combination of the Two
• Bye Bye Baby

• Mercedes Benz
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Summertime
• Cry Baby
• Piece My Heart
• Maybe
• To Love Somebody
• Kozmic Blues
• Me and Bob McGee
• Try Just a Little Bit Harder
• Little Girl Blue
• One Good Man
• Ball and Chain
• I Need a Man to Love
• Trust Me
• Get It While You Can
• Down on Me
• Turtle Blues

• What Good Can Drinkin' Do (1962-xx-xx: John Riley's Home, Austin, TX, USA)
• CC Rider (1962-xx-xx: Threadgill's Bar, Austin, TX, USA)
• San Francisco Bay Blues (1962-xx-xx: Threadgill's Bar, Austin, TX, USA)
• Whining Boy Blues (1962-xx-xx: Threadgill's Bar, Austin, TX, USA)
• Careless Love (1962-xx-xx: Threadgill's Bar, Austin, TX, USA)
• I'll Drown My Own Tears (1962-xx-xx: Threadgill's Bar, Austin, TX, USA)
• Honky Tonk Angel (1962-11-xx: [unknown coffeehouse], San Jose, CA, USA)
• Empty Pillow on My Bed (1962-11-xx: [unknown coffeehouse], San Jose, CA, USA)
• Gospel Ship (late 1962 or early 1963: [unknown coffeehouse], Grant Avenue, North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Stealing (late 1962 or early 1963: [unknown coffeehouse], Grant Avenue, North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Leaving This Morning (late 1962 or early 1963: [unknown coffeehouse], Grant Avenue, North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Daddy, Daddy, Daddy (late 1962 or early 1963: [unknown coffeehouse], Grant Avenue, North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Careless Love (late 1962 or early 1963: [unknown coffeehouse], Grant Avenue, North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Bourgeois Blues (late 1962 or early 1963: [unknown coffeehouse], Grant Avenue, North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Black Mountain Blues (1963-xx-xx: Reel #1: Austin, Texas)
• Trouble in Mind (1963-xx-xx: Reel #1: Austin, Texas)
• What Good Can Drinking Do (1963-xx-xx: Reel #1: Austin, Texas)
• Silver Threads & Golden Needles (1963-xx-xx: Reel #1: Austin, Texas)
• Mississippi River (1963-xx-xx: Reel #1: Austin, Texas)
• Stealing (1963-xx-xx: Reel #1: Austin, Texas)
• No Reason for Living (1964-xx-xx: Reel #2: Austin, Texas)
• I'll Drown in My Own Tears (1964-xx-xx: Reel #2: Austin, Texas)
• Daddy, Daddy, Daddy (1964-xx-xx: Reel #2: Austin, Texas)
• CC Rider (1964-xx-xx: Reel #2: Austin, Texas)
• San Francisco Bay Blues (1964-xx-xx: Reel #2: Austin, Texas)
• Whining Boy Blues (1964-xx-xx: Reel #2: Austin, Texas)
• Careless Love (1964-xx-xx: Reel #2: Austin, Texas)
• Leaving This Morning (1964-xx-xx: Reel #2: Austin, Texas)

• As Good as You've Been to...
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Kozmic Blues
• Little Girl Blue
• Maybe
• One Good Man
• To Love Somebody
• Work Me, Lord

• Move Over
• Cry Baby
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Half Moon
• Buried Alive in the Blues
• My Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Mercedes Benz
• Trust Me
• Get It While You Can
• Tell Mama (live)
• Little Girl Blue (live)
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) (live)
• Cry Baby (live)

• Summertime
• Try
• Cry Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Down on Me
• Get It While You Can
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Move Over
• Ball and Chain
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Half Moon
• My Baby
• Buried Alive in the Blues
• Trust Me
• Mercedes Benz
• Piece of My Heart

• Me and Bobby McGee
• Cry Baby
• Kozmic Blues
• Move Over
• Piece of My Heart
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Mercedes Benz
• Get It While You Can
• Down on Me
• Ball and Chain
• Summertime
• Mary Jane

• Mercedes Benz
• Ball and Chain
• Rap On "Try"
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Summertime
• Albert Hall Interview (1969)
• Cry Baby
• Move Over
• Dick Cavett T.V. Interview (1970)
• Piece of My Heart
• Port Arthur High School Reunion
• Maybe
• Me and Bobby McGee

• Summertime
• Maybe
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• To Love Somebody
• Kozmic Blues
• Turtle Blues
• Oh, Sweet Mary
• Little Girl Blue
• Move
• Half Moon
• Cry Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Mercedes Benz (live)
• Down on Me
• Bye Bye Baby
• Get It While You Can
• Bailand Chain
• Piece of My Heart

• Ansage - Michael Frank, Part 2
• Cozmic Blues
• Ansage
• J.J. Live in Frankfurt 1969
• J.J. Live in Frankfurt 1969
• J.J. Live in Frankfurt 1969
• Ansage
• Peace on My Heart - Woodstock 69
• Ansage
• Try
• To Love Somebody
• Ansage
• J.J. and Grateful Dead
• Turn on Your Lovelight - J.J. and Grateful Dead
• Ansage
• A Woman Left Lonely
• I Drown in My Own Tears

• Cry Baby
• Kozmic Blues
• Move Over
• Mercedes Benz
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Turtle Blues
• I Need a Man to Love
• To Love Somebody
• Maybe
• Ball and Chain
• Summertime
• Oh, Sweet Mary
• Little Girl Blue
• Piece of My Heart

• Me and Bobby McGee
• Piece of My Heart
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Cry Baby
• Turtle Blues
• I Need a Man
• Kozmic Blues
• Move Over
• To Love Somebody
• Maybe
• Mercedes Benz
• One Good Man
• Ball and Chain

• Summertime
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Cry Baby
• Me & Bobby McGee
• Down on Me
• Get It While You Can
• Bye Bye Baby
• Move Over
• Ball & Chain
• I Can't Stand the Rain
• Mercedes Benz
• Son of a Preacher Man
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Dear Landlord
• Turtle Blues
• All is Loneliness
• Maybe (live)
• Magic of Love (live)
• Piece of My Heart

• Move Over
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Mercedes Benz
• Cry Baby
• Down on Me
• Summertime
• My Baby
• Buried Alive in the Blues
• Trust Me
• Half Moon
• Get it While You Can
• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Bye, Bye Baby
• Maybe
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Ball and Chain
• Summertime (live)
• Piece of My Heart

• Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
• Maybe
• One Good Man
• As Good as You've Been to This World
• To Love Somebody
• Kozmic Blues
• Little Girl Blue
• Work Me, Lord

• Move Over
• Cry Baby
• A Woman Left Lonely
• Half Moon
• Buried Alive in the Blues
• My Baby
• Me and Bobby McGee
• Mercedes Benz
• Trust Me
• Get It While You Can

Born: 1943-01-19

Died: 1970-10-04

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