Fifty years ago today Janis Joplin was three months gone, but her status as an ageless popular music icon was just beginning with the release of “Pearl.” The album sounds bracing even a half century ...

"This is a night that will rock your world!" - Los Angeles Times Like a comet that burns far too brightly to last, Janis Joplin exploded onto the music scene in 1967 and, almost overnight, became the ...

Don't expect much in the way of personal revelation or public misbehavior. Apart from sucking on a bottle of Southern Comfort, this Janis is quite composed and sedate between songs. She tells charming ...

There were other talented white female blues-rock singers in the late ’60s and early ’70s—Bonnie Bramlett, Tracy Nelson, Bonnie Raitt—but they survived, continued recording and are today admired ...

Rock icon Janis Joplin grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. The music of Janis Joplin is perhaps associated more often with places like San Francisco or maybe Woodstock than it is southeast Texas. But ...

Joplin gave the world many classic songs. Among them are “Kozmic Blues,” “Down On Me,” “Cry Baby,” and “Get It While You Can.” However, only one of these songs became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...

“Why would I want to own a studio? I’d rather be a client,” this was Walt Disney’s response to his company’s director of recording, Tutti Camarata when he recommended they set up a studio somewhere to ...

If sandpaper and soul met a rose and birthed a child, that child would probably sound something like Janis Joplin. Joplin sang from the soul and with a voice hewn as if from sandpaper. And she lived a ...

During a 2009 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Nicks revealed the story behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Gypsy” for the first time. She said the song was about her trying to go back to the time before she ...