"Janis Joplin Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970), nicknamed ""Pearl"", was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely known female rock stars of her era. After releasing three albums, she died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. A fourth album, ""Pearl"", was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. It reached number one on the ""Billboard"" charts. In 1967, Joplin rose to fame during an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then"
"group recorded their classic ""Pearl"" album, which reached the No. 1 spot on the ""Billboard"" charts in 1971, after Joplin's death. After Joplin's death, and the subsequent breakup of Full Tilt Boogie, Till played with Bobby Charles, Bob Burchill and his ensemble in the Stratford apartments. In the foreword of ""Love, Janis"", Laura Joplin's biography of her relationship with her famous sister, Till and his Stratford born wife, Dorcas, are thanked for providing some of the material for the book. John Till John Till (born December 24, 1945 in Stratford, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. Till played in local bands"
"his first solo album, ""Garcia"" (1972), is about Joplin and the end of her suffering through death. Mimi Farina's composition, ""In the Quiet Morning"", most famously covered by Joan Baez on her ""Come from the Shadows"" (1972) album, was a tribute to Joplin. Another song by Baez, ""Children of the Eighties,"" mentioned Joplin. A Serge Gainsbourg-penned French language song by English singer Jane Birkin, ""Ex fan des sixties"" (1978), references Joplin alongside other disappeared ""idols"" such as Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Marc Bolan. When Joplin was alive, Country Joe McDonald released a song called ""Janis"" on his band's album"
"and deeply vulnerable"", and author Megan Terry said that Joplin was the female version of Elvis Presley in her ability to captivate an audience. A book about Joplin by her publicist Myra Friedman, titled ""Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin"" (1973), was excerpted in many newspapers. At the same time, Peggy Caserta's memoir, ""Going Down With Janis"" (1974), attracted a lot of attention, with its provocative title referring to her performing oral sex 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"
"Janis (film) Janis is a 1974 Canadian documentary film about the rock singer Janis Joplin. The film was directed by Howard Alk with a lot of assistance from Albert Grossman, Joplin's manager. It was available on videocassette in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, but DVD versions have been released only in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In late 2011, it was added to Hulu's movie collection for online viewing. Part of the film soundtrack is included on the 1975 album ""Janis"". The film consists entirely of archival footage of Joplin. It includes rehearsals, her June 25, 1970"
"he turned it down. The recording sessions, starting in early September, ended with Joplin's untimely death on October 4, 1970. Her final session, which took place on Thursday, October 1 after a break of several days, yielded her a cappella ""Mercedes Benz."" It was the last song she recorded before her death. The album cover, photographed by Barry Feinstein in Los Angeles, shows Joplin reclining on her Victorian era loveseat with a drink in her hand. A reissue of ""Pearl"" remastered for CD was released August 31, 1999. It included four previously unreleased live recordings from the Festival Express Tour,"
"new lyrics onto bar napkins, which he kept for years. She sang the new version for the first time that night at her concert at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester. The song was recorded in one take on October 1, 1970. These were the last tracks Joplin ever recorded; she died three days later, on October 4. The song appeared on the album ""Pearl"", released in 1971. The song title, as listed on that album, contains no hyphen although the actual automobile brand name is hyphenated. In 2003, Joplin's recording was remixed, adding a beat and a background melody."
"she gave at Albert Hall. If film of any of the concerts themselves exists, it has stayed in a vault since 1969. 1974: Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film Janis (film) Janis is a 1974 Canadian documentary film about the rock singer Janis Joplin. The film was directed by Howard Alk with a lot of assistance from Albert Grossman, Joplin's manager. It was available on videocassette in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, but DVD versions have been released only in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In late 2011, it was added to Hulu's"
"that no one who worked on the film communicated to viewers that she is dead. This film remains a major source of footage for basic and premium cable TV documentaries about Joplin -- projects that do include narration and sound bite interviews with those who knew Joplin. When documentaries include film clips of Joplin at her 1970 high school reunion, the 1974 documentary ""Janis"" is the source. Color film of an eloquent interview with Joplin in London in 1969 (outdoors with the sounds of car engines) also originates from ""Janis"". That interview was done very shortly before or after concerts"
"Love, Janis Love, Janis is a 2001 collection of Janis Joplin's performances interspersed with readings of her personal letters to her family throughout her career. It is a companion to the Off-Broadway musical of the same title (conceived, adapted and directed by Randal Myler) and the book by Joplin's sister Laura. The text of Joplin's letters are read by Catherine Curtin who was the on-stage reader Janis in the 2001 Off-Broadway version of the musical. The music on the album is the original songs sung by Joplin and the various bands she was a part of. ""Billboard""'s review of the"
"and paint, yet she was still voted ""Top Female Performer"" for 1970 by ""Melody Maker"", a leading UK pop music magazine. On the April 1971 release of James Taylor's ""Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon"" album, Mitchell is credited with backup vocals on the track ""You've Got a Friend"". The songs she wrote during the months she took off for travel and life experience appeared on her next album, ""Blue"", released in June 1971. Comparing Joni Mitchell's talent to his own, David Crosby said, ""By the time she did ""Blue"", she was past me and rushing toward the horizon""."
"in the summer of 1968, one year after their debut album, and reached number one on the Billboard charts in its eighth week in October. It kept the top spot for eight (nonconsecutive) weeks, while the single ""Piece of My Heart"" also became a huge hit. By the end of the year, it was the most successful album of 1968, having sold nearly a million copies. The success was short-lived however, as Joplin left the group for a solo career in December 1968. Outtakes originally to have appeared on the album have since been released on Janis Joplin compilations such"
"album features the first and only take that Joplin recorded. A cover of Nick Gravenites's ""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. Joplin checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood on August 24, 1970, near Sunset Sound Recorders, 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 in July and August. She"
"The song would reach #42 on the charts, barely missing the Top 40 mark. A live, more aggressive version is featured on the posthumously released live album ""In Concert"" and the 1973 collection ""Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits"". This version was also released as a single, reaching #91 on the charts in 1972. The third and final stanza of Joplin's version ends with a positive message: Joplin's version was covered by Jeany Reynolds in 1970. Down on Me (traditional song) ""Down on Me"" is a traditional freedom song from the 1920s or earlier that became popular following its remake by Janis"
"Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is a live album by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin. The album was recorded by Owsley Stanley in 1968, and released on 12 March 2012 through Columbia and Legacy, on the one-year anniversary of his death in an automobile accident. He had previously been supervising the development and release of this album right up to the time of his death on March 12, 2011. The album is dedicated to him, and set to the specifications Stanley set prior to his death. The concert by"
"the follow-up ""Volume 2"" at number 4, and a combined set of both volumes at number 3. Separately both volumes had been on the chart for 64 weeks. The album was nominated in 1971 for two Grammy Award categories: Best Album Notes and Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra), but at the ceremony on March 14, 1972, Rifkin did not win in any category. In 1979 Alan Rich in the ""New York Magazine"" wrote that by giving artists like Rifkin the opportunity to put Joplin's music on disk Nonesuch Records ""created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival."" The ""Maple Leaf"
"A Night with Janis Joplin A Night with Janis Joplin is a Broadway musical that includes works of singer-songwriter Janis Joplin (1943–1970). After 22 previews, it officially opened at the Lyceum Theatre on October 10, 2013, and closed in February, after 141 performances. The musical is presented as Janis Joplin, backed by a band of hippies, performing a concert in 1970, shortly before she in fact died of drug overdose, at age 27. Among other reviews, ""The New York Post"" characterized it as sanitizing Janis Joplin and serving as a vehicle for ""power-piped"" Mary Bridget Davies to mostly ""stick to"
"""I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die"" (1967). At the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival, Nina Simone, whom Joplin admired greatly, commented on Joplin and referred to the documentary ""Janis"" (1975) that evidently was screened at the festival: The film ""The Rose"" (1979) is loosely based on Joplin's life. Originally planned to be titled ""Pearl""—Joplin's nickname and the title of her last album—the film was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story. Bette Midler earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. In 1988, on what would have been Joplin's 45th birthday,"
"to two tracks on John Lennon's album, ""Imagine"", recorded the theme to the television show ""Soul Train"" and had made a highly acclaimed performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Champion Jack Dupree. It was in this climate that the album was released in August 1971. A week after its release, Curtis was stabbed to death outside his brownstone apartment in New York City, following an argument with two drug addicts. The day after he died the album peaked at No. 54 on the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart, his greatest success as a solo artist. There is a widely held"
"you Know How"" were released in ""Box of Pearls"" in 1999. ""Flower in The Sun"" and ""Roadblock"" were released on the ""Cheap Thrills"" reissue CD as bonus tracks. ""Piece of My Heart"" would be reissued on a single in the Columbia Hall of Fame oldies series - backed by the title cut from Joplin's first solo album, ""I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!"". At the end of the summer of 1968, just after appearing at the Palace of Fine Arts Festival in San Francisco, Joplin announced that she was leaving Big Brother in the fall of that year."
"in 1966 as an outlet for his greatest passions of R&B and soul music, recording artists such Freddie Scott (""Are You Lonely for Me Baby"") and Erma Franklin (""Piece of My Heart""). ""Piece of My Heart"", one of his last songs, was covered shortly thereafter by Big Brother and the Holding Company, which the then unknown Janis Joplin fronted. Berns, who had a history of cardiac trouble, as a result of his heart being damaged from rheumatic fever contracted during childhood, died in his New York apartment of heart failure on December 30, 1967, aged 38. He was buried two"
"on the chart for 64 weeks. The album was nominated in 1971 for two Grammy Award categories, Best Album Notes and Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra), but at the ceremony on March 14, 1972, Rifkin did not win in any category. In 1979 Alan Rich in the ""New York Magazine"" wrote that by giving artists like Rifkin the opportunity to put Joplin's music on disk, Nonesuch Records ""created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival."" Marvin Hamlisch lightly adapted and orchestrated Joplin's music for the 1973 film ""The Sting"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Song"
"show said that this combination was more effective than the live singer used in the musical itself. Love, Janis Love, Janis is a 2001 collection of Janis Joplin's performances interspersed with readings of her personal letters to her family throughout her career. It is a companion to the Off-Broadway musical of the same title (conceived, adapted and directed by Randal Myler) and the book by Joplin's sister Laura. The text of Joplin's letters are read by Catherine Curtin who was the on-stage reader Janis in the 2001 Off-Broadway version of the musical. The music on the album is the original"
"according to a statement made by her attorney Robert Gordon in 1995 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Friedman wrote that the only Full Tilt Boogie member who rode as her passenger, Ken Pearson, often hesitated to join her, though he did on the night she died. He was not interested in experimenting with hard drugs. On September 26, 1970, Joplin recorded vocals for ""Half Moon"" and ""Cry Baby"". Then Full Tilt Boogie recorded the instrumental track for ""Buried Alive in the Blues"". The session ended with Joplin, organist Ken Pearson, and drummer Clark Pierson making"
"cinemas, in multiple documentaries. ""Janis"", which was reviewed by the ""Washington Post"" on March 21, 1975, shows Joplin arriving in Frankfurt by plane and waiting inside a bus next to the Frankfurt venue, while an American female fan who is visiting Germany expresses enthusiasm to the camera (no security was used in Frankfurt, so by the end of the concert, the stage was so packed with people the band members could not see each other). ""Janis"" also includes interviews with Joplin in Stockholm and from her visit to London, for her gig at Royal Albert Hall. The London interview was"
"September and October 1970, Janis Joplin recorded it for her album ""Pearl"", posthumously released in 1971. The song was in blues-rock style and its producer was Paul A. Rothchild. On the single, the B-side was the track, ""Mercedes Benz"". The song became usual in Joplin's repertoire and today is often performed by many artists such as Joss Stone, Allison Iraheta, Magdolna Rúzsa. Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song) ""Cry Baby"" is a song originally recorded by Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters, in 1963, and later covered by rock singer Janis Joplin. Bert Berns wrote the song with Jerry Ragovoy. Garnet Mimms"
"single peaked at #41 on the US Billboard charts. ""I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!"" also contains the hits ""Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)"", ""Kozmic Blues"" and ""To Love Somebody"". The 1999 CD reissue of the album includes the outtake cover of Bob Dylan's ""Dear Landlord"", with new lyrics and arrangements provided by Joplin, and versions of ""Summertime"" and ""Piece of My Heart"" recorded live at Woodstock as bonus tracks. John Burks of Rolling Stone wrote in a November 1, 1969 interview praising Joplin's vocal performance. However, he notes that her vocals are hindered by her backup"
"Wicked Woman (album) Wicked Woman is a live bootleg recording of Janis Joplin's final concert before her death less than two months later. The recordings were made by members of the audience. The performance of Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band took place in Harvard Stadium among an audience of approximately 40,000. For the performance, the band utilized loaned amplifiers after their own were stolen while in Boston. Despite the setback, Joplin is still noted for giving a soulful performance. Three tracks, ""Half Moon"", ""Mercedes Benz"", and ""My Baby"" would be a part of Joplin's final studio album,"
"bands of the period. By early 1969, Joplin was allegedly shooting at least $200 worth of heroin per day (equivalent to $1300 in 2016 dollars) although efforts were made to keep her clean during the recording of ""I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!"". Gabriel Mekler, who produced ""Kozmic Blues"", told publicist-turned-biographer Myra Friedman after Joplin's death that she had lived in his Los Angeles house during the June 1969 recording sessions at his insistence so he could keep her away from drugs and her drug-using friends. Joplin's appearances with the Kozmic Blues Band in Europe were released in"
"When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide is the 6th studio album from Jackyl and is Jackyl's first studio album in 8 years since ""Relentless' from 2002. ""When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide"" features a cover of Janis Joplin's ""Mercedes Benz"", and a lyrically reworked cover of ""Just Like A Negro"", originally by the all black funk rock band Mother's Finest. The album also contains a studio version of ""Deeper in Darkness"" which first appeared in a live version on their live album ""Night of the Living Dead"" from 1996. Due to Jackyl's southern-redneck reputation, the band has"
"to break into song, it will be handy. Her name is Janis Joplin."" While at UT she performed with a folk trio called the Waller Creek Boys and frequently socialized with the staff of the campus humor magazine ""The Texas Ranger"". Joplin cultivated a rebellious manner and styled herself partly after her female blues heroines and partly after the Beat poets. Her first song, ""What Good Can Drinkin' Do"", was recorded on tape in December 1962 at the home of a fellow University of Texas student. She left Texas in January 1963 (""Just to get away,"" she said, ""because my"
"and forgiveness, surely he has to understand, change, give me back what I have given"". In such a way, Joplin used blues conventions not to transcend pain, but ""to scream it out of existence"". Until her death in 1970, ""Piece of My Heart"" was Joplin’s biggest chart success and best-known song. (""Me and Bobby McGee”, which Kris Kristofferson wrote, eclipsed ""Piece of My Heart"" when it appeared after her death in 1970. It went to #1 in 1971). ""Piece of My Heart"" remains most associated with Joplin and continued to get airplay long after her death. Berns never got to"
"little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at the Woodstock festival and the ""Festival Express"" train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the Billboard Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song ""Me and Bobby McGee"", which reached number 1 in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of ""Piece of My Heart"", ""Cry"