SAN GERONIMO, Calif. -- Sam Andrew will soon embark on what mildly might be called a challenging task: to replace his rock band's long-dead singer -- Janis Joplin. This time around, his band's ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — RollingStone.com is reporting the death of Sam Andrew, legendary guitarist and founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that launched Janis Joplin.

Take a trip with one of the bands that defined rock’s psychedelic era. “The month that we spent in Chicago, 1966, I consider was a seminal period for us as musicians and as a band,” drummer Dave Getz ...

A chance meeting led guitarist Sam Andrew to form a band with Peter Albin more than 40 years ago. After all these years, Big Brother and the Holding Company are still around. “It was one of those ...

Sam Andrew survived the Summer of Love with a good story to tell. He'll be at Toad's Place tonight to share it. His band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, is part of a Summer of Love 40th ...

One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s. By Richard Sandomir Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ...

San Geronimo, Calif. (Reuters) -- Sam Andrew will soon embark on what mildly might be called a challenging task: to replace his rock band's long-dead singer -- Janis Joplin. This time around, his band ...