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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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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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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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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
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Queens is the largest in area, the second largest in population, and the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States.
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Toronto
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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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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
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Allen Ginsberg
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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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Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice. One of Guthrie's works is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song of about 18 minutes in length.
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Artie Kornfeld
Artie Kornfeld (born Arthur Lawrence Kornfeld, 9 September 1942, Brooklyn, New York) is an American musician, record producer and music executive. He is perhaps best known as the music promoter for the Woodstock Festival held in 1969.
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Bessie Smith
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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.
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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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Billie Holiday
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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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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941 or 1942) is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and philanthropist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism. Her music might generally be categorized as folk and traditional music, though she did record one mostly country album, ''I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again'', in Nashville. Some of her other songs have more modern popular sounds. Her work has been covered by such musicians as Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Neko Case, Janis Joplin, Chet Atkins, The Indigo Girls and Joe Cocker. She is also responsible for Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding of Native Americans. She has won recognition and many awards and honours for both her music and her work in education and social activism.
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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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Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Rolling Stone named Santana number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
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Cass Elliot
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Chet Helms
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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
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David G. Bromley
David G. Bromley (born 1941) is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. He has written extensively about "cults", new religious movements, apostasy, and the anti-cult movement.
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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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Edgar Winter
Edgar Holland Winter (born December 28, 1947), is an American musician. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group. He is easily recognized by his albinism.
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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
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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
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G. W. Bailey
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Gabriel Mekler
Gabriel Mekler (1942-1977) was a songwriter, musician, and record producer who attained fame in the 1960s, helming classic albums for Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, and Janis Joplin. He also collaborated with R&B; singer Etta James for two critically acclaimed albums in the early 1970s, mixing blues, soul, jazz and rock.
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George D. Chryssides
Dr George D. Chryssides (born 1945) was a senior lecturer and Head of Religious Studies at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences of the University of Wolverhampton now working for Birmingham University.
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Goldy McJohn
Goldy McJohn (born John Raymond Goadsby on May 2, 1945) is a Canadian keyboard player best known as the original keyboardist for rock group Steppenwolf. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the early use of the electronic organ in heavy metal. He is an avid golfer.
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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
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Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Jerry Garcia
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Jimi Hendrix
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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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Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (born 20 May 1944, Sheffield, England) is an English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. He is the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song "Up Where We Belong", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked #97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
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Joel Rosenman
Joel Rosenman (born 1942), conceived and co-created the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Rosenman thought of the idea for the three-day concert when he and business partner John Roberts evaluated a recording studio proposal brought forward by Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld. The four went on to create the event; Rosenman and Roberts are the co-authors of Young Men with Unlimited Capital, a non-fiction account of their exploits as producers of Woodstock.
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John Lennon
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John Sebastian
John Benson Sebastian, Jr. (March 17, 1944, in Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. His tie-dyed denim jacket is prominently displayed there.
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Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (born 23 February 1944) is an American blues guitarist, singer and producer.
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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.
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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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Keef Hartley
Keef Hartley (born Keith Hartley, 8 April 1944, Preston, Lancashire, England) is a British drummer and bandleader.
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Larry Shinn
Larry Shinn is president of Berea College, Kentucky. Previous to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University, USA. Prof. Shinn has studied ISKCON in America for more than forty years and, among his other writings, published, The Dark Lord, a study of the Hare Krishnas and the cult controversy. Prof. Shinn is also a Methodist Minister. He is notable for accepting bona fide of the ISKCON even before majority of academia accepted their traditional and orthodox nature. Interestingly, Larry Shinn received his undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace College located in Berea Ohio.
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Laura Branigan
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Lead Belly
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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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Malati Dasi
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Max Yasgur
Max B. Yasgur (December 15, 1919—February 9, 1973) was an American farmer, best known as the owner of the dairy farm in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969.
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Melanie Safka
Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter.
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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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Michael Monarch
Michael Monarch (born on July 5, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an American guitarist. He is best known for his work with the band Steppenwolf.
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Nick Gravenites
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Nigger
Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a pejorative context to refer to black people (generally people of Sub-Saharan African descent), and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts. It is a common ethnic slur. The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective , meaning the color "black".
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Nina Simone
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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
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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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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
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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
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Robert Crumb
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Sam Andrew
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Stevie Nicks
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Tim Hardin
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Tina Turner
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Tom Jones (singer)
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Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre. She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
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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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Joplin, Janis Filmography
- Love, Janis (2010)
- 27 (2009)
- Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009)
- When You're Strange (2009)
- Chelsea on the Rocks (2008)
- 68 (2008)
- Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 4: Elvis & Other Rock Greats (2003)
- Festival Express (2003)
- Pink Floyd The Wall Redux (2002)
- Nine Hundred Nights (2001)
- The Best of Music Flashback Television Shows: Featuring Music Scene and Hullabaloo (2001)
- My Generation (2000)
- Hendrix (2000)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (1995)
- Woodstock Diary (1994)
- Comin' Home (1991)
- Woodstock: The Lost Performances (1990)
- When the Applause Died (1990)
- Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (1987)
- Jimi Plays Monterey (1986)
- Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties (1986)
- Women in Rock (1986)
- Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (1983)
- Janis (1974)
- Free (1973)
- Woodstock (1970)
- Keep on 'Rockin (1969)
- Monterey Pop (1968)
- Big Brother and the Holding Company: Come Up the Years (1967)
- Ball and Chain (1967)
Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially 'Odetta (I)' (qv), 'Leadbelly' (qv) and 'Bessie Smith' (qv)). After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where she played auto-harp in Austin bars. A fraternity voted her the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1963, and she spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug-addicted. Back home in 1966, her friend 'Chet Helms' (qv) suggested she become lead singer for 'Big Brother and the Holding Company' (qv), an established Haight-Ashbury band consisting of guitarists 'James Gurley (I)' (qv) and 'Sam Andrew' (qv), bassist 'Peter Albin' (qv) and drummer 'Dave Getz' (qv)). She got wide recognition through the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, highlights of which were released in _Monterey Pop (1968)_ (qv), and with the band's landmark second album, "Cheap Thrills". She formed her "Kosmic Blues Band" the following year and achieved still further recognition as a solo performer at Woodstock in 1969, highlights released in _Woodstock (1970)_ (qv). In the spring of 1970, she sang with the "Full Tilt Boogie Band" and, on October 4 of that year, she was found dead in Hollywood's Landmark Motor Hotel (now known as Highland Gardens Hotel) from a heroin-alcohol overdose the previous day. Her ashes were scattered off the coast of California. Her biggest selling album was the posthumously released "Pearl", which contained her quintessential song: "Me & Bobby McGee".
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- 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
Love, Janis: The Songs, The Letters, The Soul of Janis Joplin
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- 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
- 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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Janis Joplin - Piece of my heart
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 31 Oct 2005
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
Janis Joplin Live
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Piece_of_my_heart
Janis Joplin - Cry Baby (live in toronto 1970)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:16
- Published: 09 Apr 2006
- Updated: 14 Jun 2012
Well, video de Janis...una de sus mejores canciones... wwww.fotolog.com/janisjoplin_2
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Cry_Baby_live_in_toronto_1970
Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue (This is Tom Jones, 1969)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:43
- Published: 14 Nov 2007
- Updated: 12 Jun 2012
Queen Janis sings an amazing version of this song, way back in 1969. I put this video up because it's rarely shown elsewhere, it's such a vulnerable performance and unlike anything else she ever recorded. Enjoy.
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Little_Girl_Blue_This_is_Tom_Jones,_1969
Janis Joplin - Summertime (Live Gröna Lund 1969)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:45
- Published: 12 Sep 2006
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
Great preformance by Janis Joplin! Live in Stockholm 1969!
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Summertime_Live_Gröna_Lund_1969
Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:15
- Published: 26 Jun 2007
- Updated: 12 Jun 2012
Mercedes Benz - other video requested www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Mercedes_Benz
Janis Joplin- Try (Live at Woodstock, 1969)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:13
- Published: 05 Aug 2006
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
Janis sings Try at the worlds most famous music festival with her Kozmic Blues Band.
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Try_Live_at_Woodstock,_1969
Janis Joplin - To love somebody
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:16
- Published: 29 Jun 2007
- Updated: 12 Jun 2012
July 18, 1969 Janis Joplin in The Dick Cavett Show
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_To_love_somebody
Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:29
- Published: 12 Jun 2008
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee Make a different choice
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Me_Bobby_McGee
Janis Joplin - Maybe
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:15
- Published: 27 May 2008
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
Janis Joplin singing Maybe. Now children before there was Celine Dion, and Britney etc there was Janis. Now granted you may not have wanted to take her home to meet your Mum (unless your Mum was Amy Winehouse of course) but Janis could belt out a song and could drink most men under the table. My kinda gal!
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Maybe
Janis Joplin - Cry Baby
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:59
- Published: 26 Aug 2008
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
Cry Baby von Janis Joplin Songtext: Cry baby, cry baby, cry baby, Honey, welcome back home. I know she told you, Honey I know she told you that she loved you Much more than I did, But all I know is that she left you, And you swear that you just don't know why, But you know, honey I'll always, I'll always be around if you ever want me Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby, Oh honey, welcome back home. Don't you know, honey, Ain't nobody ever gonna love you The way I try to do ? Who'll take all your pain, Honey, your heartache, too ? And if you need me, you know That I'll alwasy be around if you ever want me Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby, Oh daddy, like you always saying to do. And when you walk around the world, babe, You said you'd try to look for the end of the road, You might find out later that the road'll end in Detroit, Honey, the road'll even end in Kathmandu. You can go all around the world Trying to find something to do with your life, baby, When you only gotta do one thing well, You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe. You got a woman waiting for you there, All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one woman And that'll be the end of the road, babe, I know you got more tears to share, babe, So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, And cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby. And if you ever feel a little lonely, dear, I want you to come on, come on to your mama now, And if you ever want a little love of a <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_Cry_Baby
Janis Joplin - A Woman Left Lonely
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:25
- Published: 22 Jan 2008
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
ty for 900000+ views :) LYRICS: A woman left lonely will soon grow tired of waiting, She'll do crazy things, yeah, on lonely occasions. A simple conversation for the new men now and again Makes a touchy situation when a good face come into your head. And when she gets lonely, she's thinking 'bout her man, She knows he's taking her for granted, yeah yeah, Honey, she doesn't understand, no no no no! Well, the fevers of the night, they burn an unloved woman Yeah, those red-hot flames try to push old love aside. A woman left lonely, she's the victim of her man, yes she is. When he can't keep up his own way, good Lord, She's got to do the best that she can, yeah! A woman left lonely, Lord, that lonely girl, Lord, Lord, Lord!
http://wn.com/Janis_Joplin_A_Woman_Left_Lonely
Janis Joplin - Ball And Chain live in Germany 69
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:57
- Published: 06 Apr 2008
- Updated: 12 Jun 2012
Janis Joplin - Ball And Chain live in Germany 69
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Summertime
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- Published: 06 Oct 2005
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
Janis Joplin at live. Black and white video
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janis joplin me and bobby mc gee
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janis joplin- me and bobby mc gee
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Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart [live Woodstock]
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Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart
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Janis Joplin - To Love Somebody
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- Published: 31 Dec 2007
- Updated: 14 Jun 2012
Montage with Janis doing what she does best. One of my all time favorite female vocalists.Enjoy...
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This was my Me and Bobby Mc Gee Video
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- Duration: 4:36
- Published: 09 Nov 2007
- Updated: 12 Jun 2012
YouTube forced an audioswap,
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Mercedes Benz (janis joplin)
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- Duration: 3:00
- Published: 24 Jul 2007
- Updated: 12 Jun 2012
A tribute to janis joplin... but in our own version, with band and all, live during a show...yes, it's a cover, but the best one ever on YT! Enjoy MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF "FAIR USE" IN TITLE 17 § 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL HOLDER AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY.
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Janis Joplin - Kosmic Blues
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- Duration: 5:11
- Published: 30 Nov 2006
- Updated: 11 Jun 2012
From 1970, shortly before her death.
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Janis Joplin with Big Brother and The Holding Company - Summertime & I Need A Man To Love
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- Duration: 10:23
- Published: 17 Feb 2006
- Updated: 12 Jun 2012
One of the last performances Janis Joplin performed with Big Brother and the Holding Company, on the Saturday night variety TV show "The Hollywood Palace" (11/2/68). Performing the songs "Summertime" and "I Need A Man To Love."
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janis joplin interview
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- Published: 04 Dec 2007
- Updated: 12 Jun 2012
janis joplin on the dick cavett show
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Janis Joplin- Mercedes Benz
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- Duration: 1:49
- Published: 12 Oct 2008
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
One of Janis Joplin's best songs, Mercedes Benz, with pictures of her
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Janis Lyn Joplin |
| Also known as | Pearl Mary Jane |
| Born | (1943-01-19)January 19, 1943 Port Arthur, Texas, United States |
| Died | October 4, 1970(1970-10-04) (aged 27) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genres | Blues rock, soul, psychedelic rock, acid rock, country, folk, hard rock, jazz blues |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, auto-harp, harmonica, piano, percussion |
| Years active | 1962–1970 |
| Labels | Columbia |
| Associated acts | Big Brother and the Holding Company Kozmic Blues Band Full Tilt Boogie Band Grateful Dead |
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter from Port Arthur, Texas. As a youth Joplin was ridiculed by her fellow students due to her unconventional appearance and personal beliefs. She later sang about her experience at school through her song "Ego Rock". Early in her life, Joplin cultivated a rebellious and unconventional lifestyle, becoming a beatnik poet. She began her singing career as a folk and blues singer in San Francisco, playing clubs and bars with her guitar and auto-harp.
Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. She was one of the more popular acts at the Monterey Pop Festival and later became one of the major attractions to the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour.
Janis Joplin only charted five singles in her life but her hits and other popular songs from throughout her short four year career include "Down On Me", "Bye, Bye Baby", "Coo Coo", "Summertime", "Piece of My Heart", "Turtle Blues", "Ball 'n' Chain", "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)", "Maybe", "To Love Somebody", "Kozmic Blues", "Work Me, Lord", "Move Over", "Cry Baby", "A Woman Left Lonely" "Get It While You Can", "My Baby", "Trust Me", "Mercedes Benz", "One Night Stand", "Raise Your Hand" and her only number one hit, "Me and Bobby McGee".
Joplin was well known for her performing abilities and her fans referred to her stage presence as electric. At the height of her career, she was known as "The Queen of Rock and Roll" as well as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul" and became known as Pearl amongst her friends. She was also a painter, dancer and music arranger.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004,[1] and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.[2]
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Early life: 1943–1961[link]
Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on (1943-01-19)January 19, 1943,[3] to Dorothy (née East) Joplin (1913–1998), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin (1910–1987), an engineer at Texaco. She had two younger siblings, Michael and Laura. The family attended the Church of Christ.[4] The Joplins felt that Janis always needed more attention than their other children, with her mother stating, "She was unhappy and unsatisfied without [receiving a lot of attention]. The normal rapport wasn't adequate."[5]
As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.[6] She began singing in the local choir and expanded her listening to blues singers such as Odetta, Billie Holiday and Big Mama Thornton.
Primarily a painter while still in school, she first began singing blues and folk music with friends. While at Thomas Jefferson High School, she stated that she was mostly shunned.[6] Joplin was quoted as saying, "I was a misfit. I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers."[5] As a teen, she became overweight and her skin broke out so badly she was left with deep scars which required dermabrasion.[5][7][8] Other kids at high school would routinely taunt her and call her names like "pig," "freak" or "creep."[5] Among her classmates were G. W. Bailey and Jimmy Johnson.
Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas, during the summer[7] and later the University of Texas at Austin, though she did not complete her studies.[9] The campus newspaper The Daily Texan ran a profile of her in the issue dated July 27, 1962, headlined "She Dares To Be Different."[9] The article began, "She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levi's to class because they're more comfortable, and carries her Autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break into song it will be handy. Her name is Janis Joplin."[9]
Singing career: 1962-1965[link]
Cultivating a rebellious manner, Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues heroines and, in part, after the Beat poets. Her first song recorded on tape, at the home of a fellow student in December 1962, was "What Good Can Drinkin' Do".[11] She left Texas for San Francisco ("just to get away from Texas," she said, "because my head was in a much different place"[12]) in January 1963, living in North Beach and later Haight-Ashbury. In 1964, Joplin and future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen recorded a number of blues standards, further accompanied by Margareta Kaukonen on typewriter (as a percussion instrument). This session included seven tracks: "Typewriter Talk", "Trouble In Mind", "Kansas City Blues", "Hesitation Blues", "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out", "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" and "Long Black Train Blues", and was later released as the bootleg album The Typewriter Tape.
Around this time, her drug use increased, and she acquired a reputation as a "speed freak" and occasional heroin use.[3][6][7] She also used other psychoactive drugs and was a heavy drinker throughout her career; her favorite beverage was Southern Comfort.
In early 1965, Joplin's friends, noticing the physical effects of her amphetamine habit (she was described as "skeletal"[6] and "emaciated"[3]), persuaded her to return to Port Arthur, Texas. In May 1965, Joplin's friends threw her a bus-fare party so she could return home.[3] Back in Port Arthur, she changed her lifestyle. She avoided drugs and alcohol, began wearing relatively modest dresses, adopted a beehive hairdo, and enrolled as a sociology major at Lamar University in nearby Beaumont, Texas. During her year at Lamar University, she commuted to Austin to perform solo, accompanying herself on guitar. One of her performances was reviewed in the Austin American-Statesman. Joplin became engaged to a man who visited her, wearing a blue serge suit, to ask her father for her hand in marriage, but the man terminated plans for the marriage soon afterwards.[8]
Just prior to joining Big Brother and the Holding Company, Joplin recorded seven studio tracks in 1965. Among the songs she recorded was her original composition for her song "Turtle Blues" and an alternate version of "Cod'ine" by Buffy Sainte-Marie. These tracks were later issued as a new album in 1995 titled This is Janis Joplin 1965 by James Gurley.
Big Brother and the Holding Company: 1966–1968[link]
Main article: Big Brother and the Holding Company
In 1966, Joplin's bluesy vocal style attracted the attention of the psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, a band that had gained some renown among the nascent hippie community in Haight-Ashbury. She was recruited to join the group by Chet Helms, a promoter who had known her in Texas and who at the time was managing Big Brother. Helms brought her back to San Francisco and Joplin joined Big Brother on June 4, 1966.[13] Her first public performance with them was at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. In June, she was photographed at an outdoor concert that celebrated the summer solstice. The image, which was later published in two books by David Dalton, shows her before she relapsed into drugs. Due to persistent persuading by keyboardist and close friend Stephen Ryder, Joplin avoided drug use for several weeks, enjoining bandmate Dave Getz to promise that using needles would not be allowed in their rehearsal space or in her apartment or in the homes of her bandmates whom she visited.[8] When a visitor injected drugs in front of Joplin and Getz, Joplin angrily reminded Getz that he had broken his promise.[8] A San Francisco concert from that summer was recorded and released in the 1984 album Cheaper Thrills. In July, all five bandmates and guitarist James Gurley's wife Nancy moved to a house in Lagunitas, California, where they lived communally. They often partied with the Grateful Dead, who lived less than two miles away.
On August 23, 1966,[14] during a four week engagement in Chicago, the group signed a deal with independent label Mainstream Records.[15] Joplin relapsed into drinking when she and her bandmates (except for Peter Albin) joined some "alcoholic hipsters," as Joplin biographer Ellis Amburn described them, in Chicago. The band recorded tracks in a Chicago recording studio, but the label owner Bob Shad refused to pay their airfare back to San Francisco.[6] Shortly after four of the five musicians drove from Chicago to Northern California with very little money (Albin traveled by plane), they returned to Lagunitas. It was there that Joplin relapsed into intravenous drug use. Nancy Gurley was an enabler.[6] Three years later, Joplin, by then using a different band, was informed of Gurley's death from an overdose.[6]
One of Joplin's earliest major performances in 1967 was the Mantra-Rock Dance, a musical event held on January 29 at the Avalon Ballroom by the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple. Janis Joplin and Big Brother performed there along with the Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, Allen Ginsberg, Moby Grape, and Grateful Dead, donating proceeds to the Krishna temple.[16][17][18]
In early 1967, Joplin met Country Joe McDonald of the group Country Joe and the Fish. The pair lived together as a couple for a few months.[3][15] Joplin and Big Brother began playing clubs in San Francisco, at the Fillmore West, Winterland and the Avalon Ballroom. They also played at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, as well as in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, the Psychedelic Supermarket in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Golden Bear Club in Huntington Beach, California.[15]
Monterey and breakthrough[link]
The band's debut studio album, Big Brother and the Holding Company, was released by Columbia Records in August 1967, shortly after the group's breakthrough appearance in June at the Monterey Pop Festival.[12] The debut album spawned four minor hits with the singles "Down on Me", a traditional song arranged by Joplin, "Bye Bye Baby," "Call On Me" and "Coo Coo," all of which Joplin sang lead vocals on.
Two songs from the second of Big Brother's two sets at Monterey were filmed. "Combination of the Two" and a version of Big Mama Thornton's "Ball 'n' Chain" appear in the DVD box set of D. A. Pennebaker's documentary Monterey Pop released by The Criterion Collection. The film captured Cass Elliot, of The Mamas & the Papas, seated in the audience silently mouthing "Wow! That's really heavy!" during Joplin's performance of "Ball and Chain".[6] Only "Ball and Chain" was included in the film that was released to theaters nationwide in 1969 and shown on television in the 1970s. Those who did not attend Monterey Pop saw the band's performance of "Combination of the Two" for the first time in 2002 when The Criterion Collection released the box set.
After switching managers from Chet Helms to Julius Karpen in 1966, the group signed with top artist manager Albert Grossman, whom they met for the first time at Monterey Pop. For the remainder of 1967, Big Brother performed mainly in California. On February 16, 1968,[19] the group began its first East Coast tour in Philadelphia, and the following day gave their first performance in New York City at the Anderson Theater.[3][6] On April 7, 1968, the last day of their East Coast tour, Joplin and Big Brother performed with Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, Paul Butterfield, and Elvin Bishop at the "Wake for Martin Luther King, Jr." concert in New York.
Live at Winterland '68, recorded at the Winterland Ballroom on April 12 and 13, 1968, features Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company at the height of their mutual career working through a selection of tracks from their albums. A recording became available to the public for the first time in 1998 when Sony Music Entertainment released the compact disc. One month later, Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968, was recorded by Owsley Stanley.
In early 1968, Joplin and Big Brother made their nationwide television debut on The Dick Cavett Show, an ABC daytime variety show hosted by Dick Cavett. Shortly thereafter, network employees wiped the videotape. Over the next two years, she made three appearances on the primetime Cavett program, and all were preserved. By 1968, the band was being billed as "Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company",[15] and the media coverage given to Joplin generated resentment within the band.[15] The other members of Big Brother thought that Joplin was on a "star trip," while others were telling Joplin that Big Brother was a terrible band and that she ought to dump them.[15]
Time magazine called Joplin "probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement," and Richard Goldstein wrote for the May 1968 issue of Vogue magazine that Joplin was "the most staggering leading woman in rock... she slinks like tar, scowls like war... clutching the knees of a final stanza, begging it not to leave... Janis Joplin can sing the chic off any listener."[5]
[edit] Cheap Thrills
For her first major studio recording, Janis played a major role in the arrangement and production of the recordings that would become Big Brother and the Holding Company's second album, Cheap Thrills. During the recording, Joplin was said to be the first person to enter the studio and the last person to leave. Footage of Joplin and the band in the studio shows Joplin in great form and taking charge during the recording for "Summertime". The album featured a cover design by counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb. Although Cheap Thrills sounded as if it consisted of concert recordings, like on "Combination of the Two" and "I Need a Man to Love", only "Ball and Chain" was actually recorded in front of a paying audience; the rest of the tracks were studio recordings.[3] The album had a raw quality, including the sound of a cocktail glass breaking and the broken shards being swept away during the song "Turtle Blues". Cheap Thrills produced very popular hits with "Piece of My Heart" and "Summertime". Together with the premiere of the documentary film Monterey Pop at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on December 26, 1968,[20] the album launched Joplin's successful, albeit short, musical career.[21]
Cheap Thrills reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart eight weeks after its release, remaining for eight (nonconsecutive) weeks.[21] The album was certified gold at release and sold over a million copies in the first month of its release.[8][15] The lead single from the album, "Piece of My Heart", reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1968.[22]
The band made another East Coast tour during July–August 1968, performing at the Columbia Records convention in Puerto Rico and the Newport Folk Festival. After returning to San Francisco for two hometown shows at the Palace of Fine Arts Festival on August 31 and September 1, Joplin announced that she would be leaving Big Brother. On September 14, 1968, culminating a three-night final gig together at Fillmore West, fans thronged to honor and exult in the last official night of Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The lead-in groups for this night were Chicago (then still called Chicago Transit Authority) and Santana. Janis gave one last performance with Big Brother at a Family Dog benefit on December 1, 1968.[3][6]
Solo career: 1969–1970[link]
Kozmic Blues Band[link]
After splitting from Big Brother and the Holding Company, Joplin formed a new backup group, the Kozmic Blues Band, composed of session musicians as well as Big Brother and the Holding Company guitarist Sam Andrew and future Full Tilt Boogie Band bassist Brad Campbell. The band was influenced by the Stax-Volt rhythm and blues (R&B) bands of the 1960s, as exemplified by Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays.[3][6][8] The Stax-Volt R&B sound was typified by the use of horns and had a more bluesy, funky, soul, pop-oriented sound than most of the hard-rock psychedelic bands of the period.
By early 1969, Joplin was allegedly shooting at least $200 worth of heroin per day,[7] although efforts were made to keep her clean during the recording of I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!. Gabriel Mekler, who produced the Kozmic Blues, told publicist-turned-biographer Myra Friedman after Joplin's death that the singer had lived in his house during the June 1969 recording sessions at his insistence so he could keep her away from drugs and her drug-using friends.[8]
Joplin's performance with The Kozmic Blues Band in Frankfurt was released in cinemas around this time. The film shows Joplin arriving in Frankfurt by plane and also includes her interviews from the Royal Albert Hall and on a bus. Most of the performances from this concert were later used in the 1975 film Janis: The Way She Was and is considered one of her best with the Kozmic Blues Band. No security was used so by the end of the concert the stage was so packed with people the band could not see each other. Another film was released of the band's performance in Stockholm featuring Joplin's interpretation of Summertime.
The Kozmic Blues Band performed on many television shows with Joplin. On the Tom Jones television show, they performed "Little Girl Blue" and "Raise Your Hand", the latter with Jones singing a duet with Joplin. On one episode of The Dick Cavett Show, they performed "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)" as well as "To Love Somebody". As Cavett interviewed Joplin, she admitted that she had a terrible time touring in Europe, claiming that audiences there are very uptight and don't get down. She also revealed that she was a big fan of the then unknown Tina Turner, saying that she was an incredible singer, dancer and show woman. Joplin and Turner also performed together on at least one occasion at Madison Square Garden.
[edit] I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
The Kozmic Blues album, released in September 1969, was certified gold later that year, but did not match the success of Cheap Thrills.[21] Reviews of the new group were mixed. However, the recording quality and engineering of the record as well as the musicianship were considered superior to her previous releases and some music critics argued that the band was working in a much more constructive way to support Janis' sensational vocal talents. Janis wanted a horn section similar to Chicago Transit Authority (band) and her voice had the dynamic qualities and range to not be overpowered by the brighter horn sound. Some music critics, including Ralph J. Gleason of the San Francisco Chronicle, were negative. Gleason wrote that the new band was a "drag" and that Joplin should "scrap" her new band and "go right back to being a member of Big Brother...(if they'll have her)."[3] Other reviewers, such as reporter Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post generally ignored the band's flaws and devoted entire articles to celebrating the singer's magic. In general the press concentrated more on her leaving Big Brother rather than the qualities of the new recording.
Columbia released "Kozmic Blues" as a single, which peaked at #41 on the Billboard Hot 100, and a live rendition of Raise Your Hand was released and became a top ten hit. Containing other hits like Try (Just a Little Bit Harder), To Love Somebody and Little Girl Blue, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 weeks after its release.
Woodstock[link]
Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band toured North America and Europe throughout 1969, appearing at Woodstock in the late hours of Saturday, August 16. She performed until the early morning hours of Sunday, August 17. Her friend Peggy Caserta claimed in a 1973 book that she encouraged Joplin to perform at the festival. Joplin informed her band that they would be performing at the concert as if it were just another gig. When she and the band were flown in by helicopter with Joan Baez from a nearby motel to the festival site and Joplin saw the enormous crowd she instantly became incredibly nervous and giddy. The documentary film of the festival that was released to theaters the following year includes, on the left side of a split screen, 37 seconds of footage of Joplin and Caserta walking toward her dressing room tent.[23] By most accounts, Woodstock was not a happy affair for Joplin.[3][6][7]
Faced with a ten hour wait after arriving at the backstage area, she shot heroin[6][7] with Caserta and was drinking alcohol, so by the time she hit the stage, she was "three sheets to the wind."[3] On stage her voice became slightly hoarse and wheezy and she found it hard to dance. Throughout her performance she frequently spoke to the crowd. She pulled through, however, and the audience was so pleased they cheered her on for an encore, to which she replied and sang Ball and Chain. Her performances of Kozmic Blues and Work Me, Lord at Woodstock are notable, though her voice breaks while she sings.
Joplin was ultimately unhappy with her performance and blamed Caserta. Her singing was not included in the documentary film or the soundtrack, Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, although the 25th anniversary director's cut of Woodstock includes her performance of "Work Me, Lord". Joplin however remained at Woodstock for the rest of the festival.
Laura Joplin said in an interview that Janis went straight home to Port Arthur following Woodstock. She was incredibly vibrant and happy after coming home and really loved the festival.
Madison Square Garden[link]
In addition to Woodstock, Joplin also had problems at Madison Square Garden in 1969. Biographer Myra Friedman claimed to have witnessed a duet Joplin sang with Tina Turner during a concert by The Rolling Stones at the Garden on Thanksgiving Day. Friedman described Joplin during this performance as "so stoned, so out of control, that she could have been an institutionalized psychotic rent with mania."[8]
During a Garden concert where she got solo billing on December 19, some observers believed she tried to incite the audience to riot.[8] For part of this concert she was joined onstage by special guests Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield.
Joplin told rock journalist David Dalton, the audience watched and listened to "every note [she sang] with 'Is she gonna make it?' in their eyes."[15] In her interview with Dalton she added that she felt most comfortable performing at small, cheap venues in San Francisco that were associated with the counterculture. At the time of this June 1970 interview she already had performed in the Bay Area for what turned out to be the last time.
Sam Andrew, the lead guitarist who had left Big Brother with Joplin in December 1968 to form her back-up band, quit in late summer 1969 and returned to Big Brother without her. At the end of the year, the Kozmic Blues Band broke up. Their final gig with Joplin was at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the night of December 19–20, 1969.[3][15]
Full Tilt Boogie Band[link]
In February 1970, Joplin traveled to Brazil, where she stopped her drug and alcohol use. She was accompanied on vacation there by her friend Linda Gravenites, who had designed the singer's stage costumes from 1967 to 1969. Joplin was romanced by a fellow American tourist named David (George) Niehaus, who was traveling around the world. A Joplin biography written by her sister Laura said, "David was an upper-middle-class Cincinnati kid who had studied communications at Notre Dame. ... [and] had joined the Peace Corps after college and worked in a small village in Turkey. ... He tried law school, but when he met Janis he was taking time off."[24] Niehaus and Joplin were photographed by the press at Rio Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.[15] Gravenites also took color photographs of the two during their Brazilian vacation. According to Joplin biographer Ellis Amburn, in Gravenites' snapshots they "look like a carefree, happy, healthy young couple having a tremendously good time."[6] Rolling Stone magazine interviewed Joplin during an international phone call, quoting her, "I'm going into the jungle with a big bear of a beatnik named David Niehaus. I finally remembered I don't have to be on stage twelve months a year. I've decided to go and dig some other jungles for a couple of weeks."[6] Amburn added in 1992, "Janis was trying to kick heroin in Brazil, and one of the nicest things about George was that he wasn't into drugs."[6]
Joplin began using heroin again when she returned to the United States. Her relationship with Niehaus soon ended because of his witnessing her shooting drugs at her new home in Larkspur, California, her romantic relationship with Peggy Caserta, who also was an intravenous addict, and her refusal to take some time off work and travel the world with him.[6][25] Around this time she formed her new band, the Full Tilt Boogie Band.[3][6][8] The band was composed mostly of young Canadian musicians and featured an organ, but no horn section. Joplin took a more active role in putting together the Full Tilt Boogie Band than she did with her prior group. She was quoted as saying, "It's my band. Finally it's my band!"[3]
The Full Tilt Boogie Band began touring in May 1970. Joplin remained quite happy with her new group, which received mostly positive feedback from both her fans and the critics.[3] Prior to beginning a summer tour with Full Tilt Boogie, she performed in a reunion with Big Brother at the Fillmore West in San Francisco on April 4, 1970. Recordings from this concert were included in an in-concert album released posthumously in 1972. She again appeared with Big Brother on April 12 at Winterland where she and Big Brother were reported to be in excellent form.[6] It was around this time that Joplin began wearing multi-coloured feather boas in her hair. By the time she began touring with Full Tilt Boogie, Joplin told people she was drug-free, but her drinking increased.[6]
Festival Express[link]
From June 28 to July 4, 1970, Joplin and Full Tilt Boogie joined the all-star Festival Express train tour through Canada, performing alongside Buddy Guy, Rick Danko and The Band, Ten Years After, Grateful Dead, Delaney and Bonnie, Eric Andersen, and Ian & Sylvia.[6] They played concerts in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary.[6][15] Janis jammed with the other performers on the train and her performances on this tour are considered to be among her greatest.
Joplin convinced The Band, who originally did not want to perform, to come telling them it was going to be a great party.
Joplin headlined the festival on all three nights. At the last stop in Calgary, Janis took to the stage with Jerry Garcia while her band was tuning up. She told the audience how great the tour was and presented the organisers with a case of Tequila. She then burst into a two hour set, starting with Tell Mama. Throughout this performance, Janis went into several banters where she spoke about her failed love life. She finished the night with long versions pf Get It While You Can and Ball and Chain.
Footage of her performance of the song Tell Mama in Calgary became an MTV video in the early 1980s and the sound was included on the 1982 Farewell Song album. The audio of other Festival Express performances was included on that 1972 Joplin In Concert album. Video of the performances was included on the Festival Express DVD. Her full performances of Festival Express exist and have been released on bootlegs but all footage has yet to be released. In the Tell Mama video shown on MTV in the 1980s, Joplin wore a psychedelically colored loose-fitting costume and feathers in her hair. This was her standard stage costume in the spring and summer of 1970. She chose the new costumes after her friend and designer, Linda Gravenites (whom Joplin had praised in the May 1968 issue of Vogue), cut ties with Joplin shortly after their return from Brazil, due largely to Joplin's continued use of heroin.[3][6]
During the Festival Express tour, Joplin was accompanied by Rolling Stone writer David Dalton, who later wrote several articles and a book on Joplin. She told Dalton:
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything ... It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me. I'm full of emotion and I want a release, and if you're on stage and if it's really working and you've got the audience with you, it's a oneness you feel.[15]
[edit] Pearl
Main article: Pearl (album)
Among her last public appearances were two broadcasts of The Dick Cavett Show. In a June 25, 1970, appearance, she announced that she would attend her ten-year high-school class reunion. When asked if she had been popular in school, she admitted that when in high school, her schoolmates "laughed me out of class, out of town and out of the state."[26] In the August 3, 1970, Cavett broadcast, Joplin referred to her upcoming performance at the Festival for Peace to be held at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, on August 6, 1970.
Joplin attended the reunion on August 14, accompanied by fellow musician and friend Bob Neuwirth, road manager John Cooke, and her sister Laura, but it reportedly proved to be an unhappy experience for her.[27] Joplin held a press conference in Port Arthur during her reunion visit. Interviewed by Rolling Stone journalist Chet Flippo, she was reported to wear enough jewelry for a "Babylonian whore."[6] When asked by a reporter during the reunion if Joplin entertained at Thomas Jefferson High School when she was a student there, Joplin replied, "Only when I walked down the aisles."[3][3][5] Joplin denigrated Port Arthur and the people who'd humiliated her a decade earlier in high school.[3]
Joplin's last public performance, with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, took place on August 12, 1970, at the Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts. A positive review appeared on the front page of The Harvard Crimson newspaper despite the facts that Full Tilt Boogie performed with makeshift sound amplifiers after their regular equipment was stolen in Boston.[8]
During late August, September and early October 1970, Joplin and her band rehearsed and recorded a new album in Los Angeles with producer Paul A. Rothchild, who had produced recordings for The Doors. Although Joplin died before all the tracks were fully completed, there was still enough usable material to compile a long-playing record.
The result of the sessions was the posthumously released Pearl (1971). It became the biggest selling album of her career[21] and featured her biggest hit single, a cover of Kris Kristofferson's Me and Bobby McGee. Kristofferson had been Joplin's lover in the spring of 1970.[28] The opening track Move Over was written by Joplin, reflecting the way that she felt men treated women in relationships. Also included was the social commentary of the a cappella Mercedes Benz, written by Joplin, Bob Neuwirth and beat poet Michael McClure. The track on the album features the first and only take that Joplin recorded. The track Buried Alive In The Blues, to which Joplin had been scheduled to add her vocals on the day she was found dead, was included as an instrumental. In 2003, Pearl was ranked No. 122 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Joplin checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel on August 24, 1970,[29] which was located in Hollywood Heights near Sunset Sound Recorders[6] where she began rehearsing and recording her album. During the sessions, Joplin continued a relationship with Seth Morgan, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley student, cocaine dealer and future novelist who had visited her new home in Larkspur, California several times in July and August.[3][6][7] She and Morgan became engaged to be married in early September[5] even though he visited Sunset Sound Recorders for just eight of the many sessions when Joplin worked, much to her dismay.[6] Much later Morgan told biographer Myra Friedman that as a non-musician he felt excluded while in the studio.[8] He stayed at Joplin's Larkspur home for days at a time while Joplin stayed alone at the Landmark,[8] although several times she visited Larkspur to be with him and to check the progress of renovations she was having done on the house.
Peggy Caserta claimed in her 1973 book Going Down With Janis that she and Joplin had decided mutually in April 1970 to stay away from each other to avoid enabling each other's drug use.[7] Caserta, a former Delta Air Lines stewardess[7] and owner of a clothing boutique in the Haight Ashbury,[7] said that by September 1970 she had resorted to smuggling marijuana throughout California[7] and she checked into the Landmark that month because it attracted drug users.[7] Joplin learned of Caserta's presence in Los Angeles and staying at the same hotel from a heroin dealer who made deliveries to the Landmark.[7] Joplin begged Caserta for heroin[7] and within a few days became a regular customer of that heroin dealer.[7]
Joplin's manager Albert Grossman and his assistant Myra Friedman had taken part in an intervention with Joplin the previous winter.[8] While they worked at Grossman's New York office during the Pearl sessions, they knew Joplin was staying at a Los Angeles hotel but did not know it attracted drug users and dealers.[8]
On September 26, 1970, Joplin recorded vocals for Half Moon and Cry Baby.[30] Then Full Tilt Boogie recorded the instrumental track for Buried Alive In The Blues.[31] The session ended with Joplin, keyboardist Richard Bell (Canadian musician) and drummer Clark Pierson making a special one-minute recording as a birthday gift to John Lennon.[32] Joplin was among several singers who had been contacted, or whose management had been contacted, by Yoko Ono with a request for a taped greeting for Lennon's 30th birthday,[27] which was October 9. Joplin, Bell and Pierson chose the Dale Evans composition Happy Trails. Lennon told Dick Cavett on-camera the following year that Joplin's taped greeting arrived at his home after her death.[27]
The last recording Joplin completed was on October 1, 1970 – Mercedes Benz. On Saturday, October 3, Joplin visited Sunset Sound Recorders[6] to listen to the instrumental track for Nick Gravenites' song Buried Alive in the Blues, which the band had recorded one week earlier.[33] She and Paul Rothchild agreed she would record the vocal the following day.[24][15] At some point on Saturday, she learned by telephone that Seth Morgan was staying at her home and using her pool table with other women he had met that day.[8] In the studio she was heard expressing anger about this and about Morgan having broken a promise to visit her the previous night,[8] although she also expressed joy about the progress of the sessions.[8] She and band member Ken Pearson went from the studio to Barney's Beanery[34] for drinks. After midnight, Joplin drove him and a male fan who tagged along to the Landmark Motor Hotel.[8]
Death[link]
On Sunday October 4, 1970, producer Paul A. Rothchild became concerned when Joplin failed to show up at Sunset Sound Recorders for a recording session. Full Tilt Boogie's road manager, John Cooke, drove to the Landmark Hotel. He saw Joplin's psychedelically painted Porsche 356C Cabriolet in the parking lot. Upon entering her room, he found her dead on the floor beside her bed. The official cause of death was an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol.[8][35] Cooke believes that Joplin had accidentally been given heroin that was much more potent than normal, as several of her dealer's other customers also overdosed that week.[36] Peggy Caserta and Seth Morgan had both stood Joplin up the Friday immediately prior to her death, October 2, and according to the book Going Down With Janis, Joplin was saddened that neither of her friends visited her at the Landmark Motor Hotel as they had promised to.[6][7]
Joplin was cremated in the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Mortuary in Los Angeles; her ashes were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean and along Stinson Beach. The only funeral service was a private affair held at Pierce Brothers and attended by Joplin's parents and maternal aunt.[24]
Joplin's will funded $1,500 to throw a wake party in the event of her demise. The party, which took place October 26, 1970, at the Lion's Share, located in San Anselmo, California, was attended by Joplin's sister Laura, fiancé, Seth Morgan and close friends, including tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle, Bob Gordon, and road manager John Cooke.
Legacy[link]
Joplin's death in October 1970 at the age of 27 stunned her fans and shocked the music world, especially when coupled with the death just sixteen days earlier of another rock icon, Jimi Hendrix. Music historian Tom Moon wrote that Joplin had "a devastatingly original voice." Music columnist Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote that Joplin as an artist was "overpowering and deeply vulnerable." Author Megan Terry claimed that Joplin was the female version of Elvis Presley in her ability to captivate an audience.[37]
In 1973, a book about Joplin by her publicist Myra Friedman was excerpted in many newspapers. At the same time, Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta attracted a lot of attention with its opening line, which referred to her performing a sex act with Joplin while they were high on heroin in September 1970. Joplin's bandmate Sam Andrew would later describe Caserta as "halfway between a groupie and a friend."[6] According to an early 1990s statement by a close friend of Caserta and Joplin, Caserta's book angered the Los Angeles heroin dealer she described (including the make and model of his car) in detail to her readers. According to Ellis Amburn, in 1973 a "carful of dope dealers" visited a Los Angeles lesbian bar Caserta had been frequenting since Joplin was alive.[6] Amburn quoted Caserta's friend Kim Chappell, who was in the alley behind the bar: "I was stabbed because, when Peggy's book came out, her dealer, the same one who'd given Janis her last fix, didn't like it that he was referred to and was out to get Peggy. He couldn't find her, so he went for her lover. When they realized who I was, they felt that my death would also hit Peggy, and so they stabbed me."[6] Despite being "stabbed three times in the chest, puncturing both lungs," Chappell eventually recovered.[6]
According to biographers Alice Echols and Myra Friedman, Peggy Caserta was one of many friends of Joplin who did not become clean and sober until a very long time after the singer's death, while others died from overdoses.[3][8] Caserta survived "a near-fatal OD in December 1995," wrote Echols.[3] In 2000, Caserta appeared on-camera for a segment about Joplin on 20/20 (US television series).[38]
Joplin, along with Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane, opened opportunities into the rock music business for future female singers.[37] Stevie Nicks commented that after seeing Joplin perform, "I knew that a little bit of my destiny had changed. I would search to find that connection that I had seen between Janis and her audience. In a blink of an eye she changed my life."[37][39]
Joplin's body art, with a wristlet and a small heart on her left breast, by the San Francisco tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle, was an early moment in the popular culture's acceptance of tattoos as art.[40] Another trademark was her flamboyant hair styles, often including colored streaks and accessories such as scarves, beads and feathers. When in New York City, Joplin, often in the company of actor Michael Pollard, frequented Limbo on St. Marks Place. The performer, well known to the store's employees, made a practice of putting aside vintage and other one-of-a-kind garments she favored on stage and off.
Leonard Cohen's 1974 song "Chelsea Hotel #2" is about Joplin.[41] Likewise, lyricist Robert Hunter has commented that Jerry Garcia's "Birdsong" from his first solo album, Garcia, is about Joplin and the end of her suffering through death.[42][43] Mimi Farina's composition "In the Quiet Morning", most famously covered by Joan Baez on her 1972 Come from the Shadows album, was a tribute to Joplin.[44] Another notable song sung by Joan Baez, Children Of The Eighties mentions Joplin.
At the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival, Nina Simone, who Janis admired greatly, commented on Joplin:
You know I made thirty-five albums, they bootlegged seventy. Oh, everybody took a chunk of me. And yesterday I went to see Janis Joplin's film here. And what distressed me the most, and I started to write a song about it, but I decided you weren't worthy. Because I figured that most of you are here for the festival. Anyway the point is it pained me to see how hard she worked. Because she got hooked into a thing, and it wasn't on drugs. She got hooked into a feeling and she played to corpses.
Simone also included Joplin in her song Stars and opened this act with a rendition of Little Girl Blue.
The 1979 film The Rose was loosely based on Joplin's life. Originally titled Pearl, after Joplin's nickname, and the title of her last album, it was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story.[45][46] Bette Midler earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
In 1988, the Janis Joplin Memorial, with an original bronze, multi-image sculpture of Joplin by Douglas Clark, was dedicated in Port Arthur, Texas.[47]
In 1992, the first major biography of Janis in two decades, Love, Janis, authored by her younger sister, Laura Joplin, was published. In an interview, Laura stated that Janis enjoyed being on the Dick Cavett Show and that Janis while growing up in Texas had difficulties with some people at school, but not the entire school. Laura stated that Janis was really enthusiastic after performing at Woodstock in 1969.[48]
Joplin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. In November 2009, the Hall of Fame and museum honored her as part of its annual American Music Masters Series.[49] Among the artifacts at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum Exhibition are Joplin's scarf and necklaces, her 1965 Porsche 356 Cabriolet with psychedelically designed painting, and a sheet of LSD blotting paper designed by Robert Crumb, designer of the Cheap Thrills cover.[50] She was the honoree at the Rock Hall's American Music Master concert and lecture series for 2009.[51]
In the late 1990s, the musical play Love, Janis was created with input from Janis's younger sister Laura plus Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew, with an aim to take it to Off Broadway. Opening in the summer of 2001 and scheduled for only a few weeks of performances, the show won acclaim and packed houses and was held over several times, the demanding role of the singing Janis attracting rock vocalists from relative unknowns to pop stars Laura Branigan and Beth Hart. A national tour followed.[citation needed]
There have been many attempts at making a film about Joplin. On June 13, 2010, producer Wyck Godfrey said Amy Adams starred in director Fernando Meirelles' biographical drama,[52] titled Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can.[45] Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P!nk; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.[45]
Influence[link]
Joplin had a profound influence on many singers. Florence Welch of Florence and The Machine spoke of Joplin's impact on her own musical prowess in an interview for Why Music Matters in a commercial against piracy:
I learnt about Janis from an anthology of female blues singers. Janis was a fascinating character who bridged the gap between psychedelic blues and soul scenes. She was so vulnerable, self-conscious and full of suffering. She tore herself apart yet on stage she was totally different. She was so unrestrained, so free, so raw and she wasn't afraid to wail. Her connection with the audience was really important. It seems to me the suffering and intensity of her performance go hand in hand. There was always a sense of longing, of searching for something. I think she really sums up the idea that soul is about putting your pain into something beautiful.
Discography[link]
Janis Joplin recorded four fully conceived studio albums in her career. Her first two albums were recorded with and fully credited to Big Brother and the Holding Company and the later two being solo albums. Previously unreleased studio and live material were added to these albums tracklistings and also released on the compilation Farewell Song in 1982. Joplins early performances from when she was a folk-blues singer have been released on several well received compilations through the years, one such compilation is the nine disc Blow All My Blues Away. In 2012 The Pearl Sessions were released giving an insight into her creative process.
As a popular psychedelic act of the late 1960's, many of Joplin's live concerts with Big Brother were professionally recorded and have been released on albums like Live at Winterland '68 and Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968.
Though most of her concerts were recorded during her solo career, few have been officially released, resulting in being heavily bootlegged.[citation needed]
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brother and the Holding Company | 1967 | Mainstream Records | |
| Big Brother and the Holding Company | 1967? | Columbia | Contains 2 extra single tracks |
| Big Brother and the Holding Company | 1967, CD 1999 | Columbia Legacy CK66425 | Contains 2 extra single tracks |
| Cheap Thrills | 1968 | Columbia | 2x Multi-Platinum Recording Industry Association of America |
| Cheap Thrills | 1968, CD 1999 | Legacy CK65784 | Contains 4 extra tracks |
| Live at Winterland '68 | 1998 | Columbia Legacy | ASIN: B000007TSP |
| Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 | 2012 | Legacy Recordings |
- Kozmic Blues Band
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! | 1969 | Columbia | Platinum RIAA |
| I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! | 1969, CD 1999 | Legacy CK65785 | Contains 3 extra tracks |
| Live in Amsterdam | |||
| The Woodstock Experience | 2009 | Legacy Recordings |
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pearl | 1971 | Columbia | posthumous, 4x Multi-Platinum RIAA |
| Pearl | 1971, CD unknown date | Columbia CD64188 | |
| Live in Honolulu | 1975 | ||
| Wicked Woman (Janis Joplin album) | 1976 | ||
| Pearl | 1971, CD 1999 | Legacy CK65786 | Contains 4 extra tracks |
| Pearl | 1971, 2CD 2005 | Legacy COL 515134 2 | CD1 – 6 other extra tracks CD2 – full selection from The Festival Express Tour, 3 venues |
| The Pearl Sessions | 2012 | Legacy Recordings |
- Big Brother & the Holding Company / Full Tilt Boogie
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Concert | 1972 | Legacy CK65786 | ASIN: B0000024Y7 |
- Later collections
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Typewriter Tape
1964 |
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| Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits | 1973 | Columbia | ASIN B00000K2W1, 7x Multi-Platinum RIAA |
| Janis | 1975 | CBS | 2 discs, Gold RIAA |
| Anthology | 1980 | 2 discs | |
| Farewell Song | 1983 | Columbia Records | ASIN: B000W44S8E |
| Cheaper Thrills | 1984 | Fan Club | ASIN: B000LYA9X8 |
| Janis | 1993 | Columbia Legacy | 3 discs – ASIN: B00000286P |
| 18 Essential Songs | 1995 | Columbia Legacy | ASIN: B000002B1A, Gold RIAA |
| The Collection | 1995 | 3 Discs | ASIN: B000BM6ATW |
| Live at Woodstock: August 19, 1969 | 1999 | ||
| Box of Pearls | 1999 | Sony Legacy | 5 Discs – ASIN: B0009YNSK6 |
| Super Hits | 2000 | Sony | ASIN: B00004T1E6 |
| Love, Janis | 2001 | Sony | ASIN: B00005EBIN |
| Essential Janis Joplin | 2003 | Sony | ASIN: B00007MB6Y |
| Very Best of Janis Joplin | 2007 | Import | ASIN: B000026A35 |
Filmography[link]
- Monterey Pop (1968)
- Petulia (1968)
- Janis Joplin Live in Frankfurt (1969)
- Janis: The Way She Was (1974)
- Comin’ Home (1988)
- Woodstock - The Lost Performances (1991)
- Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director’s Cut) (1994)
- Festival Express (2003)
- Nine Hundred Nights (2004)
- The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons (2005) Shout
- Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock (2005)
- This is Tom Jones (2007) 1969 appearance on TV show
- Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director’s Cut) 40th Anniversary Edition (2009)
- Janis Joplin with Big Brother: Ball and Chain (DVD) Charly (2009)
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- ^ Los Angeles Herald Examiner October 5, 1970, front page.
- ^ Log of Joplin's recording sessions with dates
- ^ Log of Joplin's recording sessions with dates
- ^ Log of Joplin's recording sessions with dates
- ^ Log of Joplin's recording sessions with dates
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- ^ a b c ""Joplin's Shooting Star" 1966–1970". http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=janis-joplins-death. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
- ^ 20/20 segment titled "Downtown" originally broadcast on the ABC network on January 13, 2000
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- ^ Acord, Deb (November 10, 2006). "Who knew: Mommy has a tattoo". Portland Press Herald.
- ^ "Leonard Cohen on BBC Radio". webheights.net. http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/bbctrans.htm.
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- ^ Box of Rain: Lyrics 1965–1993 by Robert Hunter, Penguin Books, 1993
- ^ Performed by Joan Baez in her 1972 album Come from the Shadows. Baez wrote the song Blessed Are..., from her 1971 album of the same name, as a tribute to Joplin.
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- ^ Maltin, Leonard (September 24, 2002). Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie And Video Guide. Plume. ISBN 0-452-28329-9.
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- ^ James, Gary (1992). "Gary James' Interview With Janis Joplin's Sister Laura Joplin". http://www.classicbands.com/LauraJoplinInterview.html. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
- ^ Cleveland Scene, August 11, 2009
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- ^ Yamato, Jen. "Exclusive: 'Eclipse' Producer Wyck Godfrey on 3D, 'Breaking Dawn,' and More", FearNet.com, June 13, 2010. WebCitation archive.
Further reading[link]
- Amburn, Ellis. Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin: A Biography. NY: Warner Books, 1992. ISBN 0-446-39506-4.
- Caserta, Peggy. Going Down with Janis: Janis Joplin's Intimate Story. Dell: 1974. ASIN: B000NSBNMI.
- Dalton, David. Piece of my Heart: A Portrait of Janis Joplin. NY: Da Capo Press, 1991. ISBN 0-306-80446-8.
- Echols, Alice. Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin. NY: Henry Holt, 1999. ISBN 0-8050-5394-8.
- Friedman, Myra. (1973). Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 0-688-00160-2.
- Gilmore, John (1997). LAID BARE: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives & the Hollywood Death Trip. Los Angeles: AMOK. ISBN 1-878923-08-0. http://www.amazon.com/Laid-Bare-Memoir-Wrecked-Hollywood/dp/1878923080#_.
ISBN 1-878923-08-0 - Joplin, Laura. Love, Janis. NY: Villard Books, 1992. ISBN 1-888358-08-4.
- Stieven-Taylor, Alison. Rock Chicks. Sydney: Rockpool Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-921295-06-5.
External links[link]
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- Biography at The Handbook of Texas Online
- JohnGilmore.com: Spotlight on Janis Joplin
- Janis Joplin's Kozmic Blues – janisjoplin.net
- Re-introducing Janis Joplin – slideshow by The New York Times
- Artwork created by Janis Joplin, from her family
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| Name | Joplin, Janis |
| Alternative names | Joplin, Janis Lyn |
| Short description | American musician |
| Date of birth | January 19, 1943 |
| Place of birth | Port Arthur, Texas, United States |
| Date of death | October 4, 1970 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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