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| | Janis Joplin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Joplin released four albums as the frontwoman for several bands from 1967 to a posthumous release in 1971. | | | Joplin is now remembered best for her powerful, distinctive voice — her rasping, overtone-rich sound was significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influenced styles that were common among white artists at the time — as well as for her lyrical themes of pain and loss. | | | Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously released live album In Concert |
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| | divastation: janis joplin |
| | in fact, in spite of the recording's domination of the charts for several weeks, the album's producer refused to be credited and joplin began looking for musicians to form a new band. | | | with a life spanning only twenty-seven years and a career producing only four studio albums, it is amazing that janis joplin rose to the echelons of rock divadom, but that is exactly what she did. | | | janis' dreams of "more noise" took the form of the kozmic blues band, to which big brother member sam andrews followed her. |
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| | The first group of musicians Joplin recruited to back up her solo career was dubbed the "Kozmic Blues Band" and with them she released her first album on Columbia, "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama". | | | Though Joplin had not had much previous experience singing rock music, the combination of her gravely, bluesy voice with Big Brother's hard rock sound was a success. | | | They played on what would be Joplin's last album, 1970's "Pearl", (the nickname the singer's closest friends called her). |
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| | Janis Joplin biography |
| | Janis Joplin's third album was released posthumously following her death. | | | Janis hit the studio that year to work on her new album, "Pearl." Looking for inspiration and an outlet for mounting worries, Janis chanced using heroine during production, and accidentally overdosed at the Landmark Motor Hotel in Los Angeles. | | | In 1968, Joplin and band released "Cheap Thrills," which included live versions of "Piece of My Heart," "Ball and Chain," and "Turtle Blues." The album climbed the charts and quickly secured a number one spot on the Billboard charts, where it remained for eight weeks in a row. |
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| | Janis Joplin's voice, intensity, and distinctive look positioned her perfectly to become one of the most recognizable icons of the 1960s musical and social revolution. | | | Her brief but magnificent career made Janis Joplin a celebrity, and time has labelled her a legend of rock music. | | | It was during this time that Janis first started working as a folk singer. |
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| | Janis Joplin Biography |
| | The rowdy blues Joplin saw live in Louisiana were a marked contrast to the classical music she was raised on in Port Arthur and the omnipresent country music found in Texas. | | | Janis Joplin's musical legacy is also a part of Austin's history -- how the disheveled folkie/UT student playing at west campus hootenannies and Kenneth Threadgill's bar on North Lamar took off for San Francisco with some other Texans in the Sixties and changed the history of rock and roll. | | | A culture that puts a premium on marketable feminine beauty has no use for the Janis Joplins of the world, and why should it? |
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| | Britannica.com: Head Sounds - Janis Joplin |
| | Janis Joplin was an American singer, the premier white female blues vocalist of the 1960s, who dazzled listeners with her fierce and uninhibited musical style. | | | Buoyed by Joplin's raucous, bluesy vocals, the hard-rocking band released an album on independent Mainstream Records, then stunned audiences at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 with a legendary performance highlighted by Joplin's rendition of "Ball and Chain" (a rhythm-and-blues classic by Big Mama Thornton). | | | In 1970, engaged to be married, her life seemingly on track, Joplin was recording an album with her new group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, when she died of an accidental overdose of heroin. |
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| | Janis Joplin |
| | Janis began the song unplugged, accompanying herself on an acoustic guitar, but by the song's end the whole band was in the act, in "Hey Jude" fashion. | | | Janis hadn't sung country since her days in Austin, but now she was ready to explore her musical roots. | | | Once Bobby Neuwirth convinced John Cooke that Janis was off smack and her new band red-hot, Cooke agreed to return to the fold. |
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| | Joplin's rise to the forefront of rock and roll was meteoric and she fell prey to the excesses stardom offered. | | | Janis returned to Texas in early 1965 where she sang in a country and western band. | | | Although the band itself was chastised in the press for it's musical ineptness, they did posses a raw sound that complimented Janis's tortured vocals and energy level very well. |
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| | Being Janis Joplin |
| | Dragon was more familiar with Joplin, citing the fact that "Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits" was the second album she ever bought. | | | For this rehearsal, the show's musical director, Sam Andrew -- who played guitar in Joplin's bands Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Kosmic Blues Band -- is filling in for the guitarist who will be doing the show. | | | Chester said that "Love, Janis" humanizes Joplin by showing the hard-living, aggressive rock star as well as the insecure little girl who wants to be pretty, loved and accepted. |
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| | Janis Joplin |
| | Joplin In Concert (recorded 1968 & 1970, released 1972) | | | Was Janis Joplin just a blues-rock Elvis, a second-rate talent propelled to stardom because she was a white woman who could do a passable impersonation of a black blues singer? | | | I'd always assumed that BBHC simply ceased to exist after Joplin quit the band in late 1968, but in fact they were able to get two albums released on the Columbia label over the next few years. |
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: JOPLIN, JANIS LYN |
| | Janis did not read music, but at the roadhouses or at home listening to records of Odetta, Bessie Smith, or Willie Mae Thornton, she had an uncanny ability to imitate the sounds she heard. | | | Pearl, a album recorded just before her death and featuring "Me and Bobby McGee," shows that Joplin was growing musically almost to the moment of her death. | | | She has been called "the best white blues singer in American musical history" and "the greatest female singer in the history of rock 'n' roll." Those who missed her live performances must judge her from a relatively small number of albums, audiotapes, and videotapes. |
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| | Amazon.com: Pearl (Exp): Music: Janis Joplin |
| | Janis Joplin's PEARL is a great solo album that makes you wonder if it might have been even better if she had been able to finish all of her vocals before she died. | | | Her former road manager, John Cooke, notes in the liner notes to this newest version of PEARL that Janis' musical restlessness was reflective of her "questing nature." That's certainly true--three different bands in as many years suggests as much--and it's also reflective of the times as well. | | | Janis Joplin's best and most famous album "Pearl" is truly a classic. |
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| | Less than a year after their first #1 album, Janis Joplin and guitarist Sam Andrew left Big Brother and formed a new band with a more soulful feel--The Kozmic Blues Band was born. | | | This is the album that cemented Janis Joplin's status as the first true female rock superstar. | | | Janis Joplin issued four legendary studio albums during her short career. |
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| | I don't really know if it's Janis' self-inassuredness caused the fact that she doesn't sing lead vocals on many of the tracks or if it's vice versa, but facts are facts: quite a few of the numbers feature the band's guitarists on vocals, and it's not particularly impressive. | | | Since Janis rules supreme on the record, from this derives the fact that the only serious misfire on it is the clumsy shuffle 'Oh Sweet Mary' where Janis doesn't take lead vocals at all. | | | The first LP is all Janis with Big Brother, about half from classic 1968 performances and the other half from a brief reunion in April 1970; the second LP is all Janis with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, all June and July 1970, i.e. |
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Janis Joplin |
| | It is Joplin's most polished album, containing the unforgettable "Me and Bobby McGee." It is difficult to listen to Joplin's music without a pang of regret for her tragically wasted talent, but she often said that she would rather live intensely than spend a long life in front of the TV. | | | Joplin wrote few of her own songs, but turned others' songs into her own through wrenching, probing performances. | | | The brassy sound of the Kozmic Blues Band was discarded, and the two keyboardists--rather than the two aggressive guitarists of Big Brother--allowed Joplin's vocals free rein. |
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| | Big Brother: Janis BR Article |
| | The second song on the album, "I Need A Man To Love", was one that Janis and I wrote in about five minutes backstage before a concert. | | | Janis began to vocalize and it was like singing in the shower with its natural small room resonance. | | | At the same time nonetheless he seemed to be disillusioned that Janis would practice a certain vocal lick riff that she liked and that she would sing it the way she had polished it on every take of a given song. |
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| | Rolling Stone : 46) Janis Joplin |
| | Janis really created this whole world of possibility for women in music: Without Janis Joplin, there would be no Melissa Etheridge. | | | Home : Music News : 46) Janis Joplin | | | In the film, you see Mama Cass at the end of Janis' performance just shaking her head, standing up and applauding, like, "Oh, my God, what just happened?" |
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| | Despite all this Janis and her band played to a large concert in the summer of 1967: the "Summer of Love" which was held at the Monterey International Pop Festival. | | | She formed a new band and continued making new music. | | | Soon they signed with Mainstream Records, unfortunately they were only a small outfit that did little to promote the band. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Essential Janis Joplin: Music |
| | Janis just doesn't sound like Janis on these early recordings and the band lack their later grunge/psychedelic/punk power (by all accounts Janis and Big Brother were very unhappy with that 1st album). | | | Although most of the contents are undeniably 'essential Janis' it's hard to fathom why the record company chose to include the inferior studio pre-Monterey versions of classics such as 'Down on Me' and 'Bye Bye Baby' from their 1st album. | | | The second disc contains more live tracks,plus the best tunes from Joplin's two solo albums and the various outtakes that were released after her death (like thescorching performance of "Tell Mama" that was previously available only as a bonus track on PEARL), providing a well-rounded overview of Joplin's brief career. |
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| | Janis Joplin Alphabetical Song Index |
| | Move Over (Janis Joplin) "Joplin in Concert" Calgary 04 07 1970 | | | Ball and Chain (Willie Mae Thornton) "Joplin in Concert" Calgary 04 07 1970 | | | Kozmic Blues (Janis Joplin, Gabriel Mekler) "Joplin in Concert" Toronto 28 06 1970 |
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| | Joplin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. | | | Janis Joplin - Janis Joplin rock singer Born: 1/19/1943 Birthplace: Port Arthur, Texas Rock singer who is... | | | Janis Joplin - Singer, born 19 January 1943, 1960s blues/rock singer of "Me and Bobby McGee" |
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| | Janis Joplin - MP3 Music Site - mp3 music downloads, albums, covers, lyrics |
| | Janis Joplin - MP3 Music Site - mp3 music downloads, albums, covers, lyrics | | | Janis Joplin, music, mp3 download, mp3 music, free download, mp3, music video, music downloads / Janis Joplin, free mp3 download, mp3 players, mp3 download |
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| | Amazon.com: Love, Janis: Books: Laura Joplin |
| | Hers was not a music born merely of the vocal cords anyway, but an ensemble piece within her physical presence alone. | | | Janis Joplin will never cease to fascinate intelligent, passionate music lovers. | | | If the audience sought to have all its senses aroused at a concert, then Janis, as trance enhancer, brought total commitment to her music. |
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| | IN THE QUIET MORNING -- IN MEMORIAM JANIS JOPLIN |
| | I was leaving the hotel with Vince Mitchell and Phil Badella, Janis' equipment men, when we saw her car in the driveway. | | | I re-locked the room and went back to the garage where I told Vince and Phil and another friend of mine who was with us. | | | Before the police and coroner's office arrived (discreetly), I went to the studio to tell Paul Rothschild and the band. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: CD Review: Janis Joplin, Pearl: Legacy Edition |
| | During the latter, Janis preached a message which it helps to bear in mind when we listen to this work from her last blast and wish she'd lived to sing another day. | | | There will always be some die-hards who think Janis never should have left Big Brother, and there will always be those whose favorite album is I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama, but the fact is, for as long as she lived Janis was always a work in progress. | | | As the album was being recorded in the Fall of 1970, several signs pointed to a positive turnaround in Janis's life. |
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| | Janis Joplin |
| | Ironically, although the album had sold enough within a month to become an RIAA gold record, Joplin and Grossman announced her departure from the band in September. | | | Though rock lore has it that Big Brother was "discovered" at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, in fact, they'd already recorded their eponymously titled first LP, which was released that August by Mainstream Records (who subsequently sold it to Columbia in 1971). | | | This recording documents a peak, in the spring of 1968, when the band headlined three triumphant nights in their hometown of San Francisco. |
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| | Janis Joplin Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs |
| | Joplin's first album, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, was recorded with the Kozmic Blues Band, a unit that included horns and retained just one of the musicians that had played with her in Big Brother (guitarist Sam Andrew). | | | Their second album, Cheap Thrills, topped the charts in 1968, but Joplin left the band shortly afterward, enticed by the prospects of stardom as a solo act. | | | Janis you wrote that tune that you were just singing like we just agreed to ask about. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Janis [Box set]: Music |
| | Anyway, all Janis' best songs (in my opinion) are on these CDs, and you should do yourself a favour and buy them, and listen to one of the best voices you will ever hear. | | | Customers who bought music by Janis Joplin also bought music by these artists: | | | To listen to it you have to acknowledge the care and discernment with which tracks have been chosen. |
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| | Janis Joplin Ring |
| | Just a site with Janis Lyrics, pics, and some music. | | | Janis Joplin Bio, Quotes, Posters, T-Shirts, CDs, MP3s | | | Making beautiful music together for over a decade, the band has performed everything from cover songs to original rock opera. |
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| | Kimberlee gratefully accepts the comparison, but is also baffled by it at times because her music production is so much different. | | | Regardless of genre, audiences see the vulnerable intensity Kimberlee shares in song and it always seems to bring up the memory of Janis Joplin. | | | Even though Kimberlee’s music is contemporary Pop with RandB/Hip Hop influences, she never fails to hear from the audience this comparison. |
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| | Janis' recordings have become symbols for the unselfconsciousness of that time - the '60's. | | | For years I listened to her music and tried to emulate her because I felt such a strong connection to her." | | | These great women in music tell it like it is. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: J: Joplin, Janis |
| | Janis Joplin - Detailed band history, lyrics, audio files, recording studio sessionography, books, radio/video listings. | | | Official Janis - Family album, produced by Joplin's estate and family. | | | Top: Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: J: Joplin, Janis |
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| | JANIS JOPLIN |
| | Maybe - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band | | | Summertime [Live] - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band | | | One Good Man - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
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| | Best known for: Rock and roll's first female superstar, Janis Joplin showed that women could be rock singers. | | | (apologies for censoring her exact words which can be heard on the "Janis Joplin in Concert" CD) | | | Almost 30 years after her death she is remembered as the best white blues singer of the 1960s. |
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| | Legends - Janis Joplin |
| | The song deservedly topped the US chart when issued as a single and despite numerous interpretations, this remains the definitive version. | | | A disastrous debut concert at the Stax/Volt convention in December 1968 was a portent of future problems, but although I Got Dem Ol" Kozmic Blues Again Mama was coolly received, the set nonetheless contained several excellent Joplin vocals, notably "Try", "Maybe" and "Little Girl Blue". | | | The highlight, however, is Kris Kristofferson's "Me And Bobby McGee", which allowed Joplin to be both vulnerable and assertive. |
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| | Janis Joplin Links |
| | Janis' World - Nice set of lyrics, plus a couple of pics of Janis | | | But there is alot of stuff in there. | | | All Music Guide - Entry for Janis Joplin |
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| | AOL Music: Janis Joplin : MAIN |
| | Family album, produced by Joplin's estate and family. | | | See where Janis Joplin fell on the list! | | | Blender and AOL Music team up to count down music's 50 most rockin' stiffs. |
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| | JANIS JOPLIN: Photographs & Story by Gwendolyn Stewart |
| | "Although the film ['Festival Express'] boasts outstanding performances by the Grateful Dead and the Band at their creative peaks, it is the footage of Joplin, three months before her death, that delivers the goose bumps. | | | : New Film of Old Concert Tour from Joplin's Last Year | | | On fire in a way she was not in 'Monterey Pop,' the only other sustained record of a Joplin performance, she gives all that she has and then some to renditions of 'Cry Baby,' 'Tell Mama' and 'Me and Bobby McGee.' Some blues singers pour their heart out. |
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| | VH1.com : Janis Joplin : Artist Main |
| | Buy any shirt listed in the "music roster" and help music education! | | | Sign up now to receive every bit of juicy, up-to-the-minute news, album release info and much more delivered straight to your inbox! | | | The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. |
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| | Rolling Stone : Janis Joplin |
| | In one of her trademark tunes, "Piece of My Heart," Janis Joplin proclaimed, "I'm gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough," and she went... | | | Who knows more about Janis Joplin than you? |
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| | Janis Joplin Bio - OfficialJanis.com |
| | They gravitated to folk and jazz with Janis especially taken with the blues. | | | Along with fellow band beatnik-reading high school students, she pursued the non-traditional via arts and literature, especially music. | | | Janis Lyn Joplin was born January 19, 1943 and died October 4, 1970. |
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| | Janis Joplin Portfolio |
| | Also available - Janis Joplin video: While traveling with Janis Joplin as her road manager, 1968-1970, John Byrne Cooke filmed Janis and her band members on Fuji 8mm film. | | | More photos of Janis: Clark Pierson, Janis's drummer in the Full Tilt Boogie Band, took photos of Janis when he was touring with her in the summer of 1970. | | | If you are interested in using one of John Byrne Cooke's photographs of Janis for a commercial product, please include that information in your inquiry. |
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| | Janis Joplin Tabs: 309 Tabs Total @ 911Tabs |
| | get Janis Joplin lyrics from Mp3 Lyrics Organized | | | Janis Joplin news, reviews, forums and wallpapers at GetSomeNoise | | | get more Janis Joplin tabs from Tab Heaven |
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| | The horoscope of Janis Joplin |
| | Some days, and years, will emphasise particular parts of your birth chart. | | | The number of fans who have come to see Janis since Dec 4 1997 is: | | | Find out now by sending your birth details by e-mail to me and I will send you a full report back. |
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| | Janis Joplin in Relationships |
| | Janis has a childlike openness and playfulness which is very appealing to others, but which sometimes gets her into trouble, as Janis Joplin takes risks on impulse or whim. | | | Janis Joplin responds very much to the emotional tone and atmosphere around her, and can be dominated by her fluctuating and unpredictable moods. | | | Janis Joplin may get involved in secret love affairs or fall in love with a person who is quite unavailable to her. |
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| | i know who would be TOO perfect to play Janis.... | | | Find where Janis Joplin is credited alongside another name | | | Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town... |
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