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Janis Joplin is just one name in the roll call of rock music's honored dead; too often she's reffered to only as part of the short list of sixties immortals-Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin-who crashed and burned along with the decade that made them famous. The subject of a hefty handful of biographies, her music often takes second place in these works (and in the steady stream of retrospective articles about the era) to her lifestyle; her tough blues-mama image had some heavt upkeep charges, including alcohol dependency, notorious sexual escapades, and the drug abuse that finally killed her. Her mainstream musical career, if one takes her joining of Big Brother & The Holding Company as a reference point, lasted a scant four years, yet in that time she created a lasting body of recorded work that transcends the tabloid tawdriness, and survives as a reminder of what she often was and could have contributed to be. The greatest white urban blues and soul singer of her generation was born on January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, TX. At 17, she began singing folk music on the coffeehouse scenes in Houston and Austin before traveling to northern California in 1965. During this first visit to the West Coast ahe met the future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaufonen, who accompanies her on guitar on this set's opening track, her reading of the blues classic "Trouble In Mind." Shortly therafter she returned to Texas, but came back to the Bay Area in 1966 when she was invited to join musicans Peter Albin, David Getz, James Gurley and Sam Andrew, Who were seeking a female vocalist for their rock group, Big Brother and the Holding Co. Although the band sprang from the same fertile San Fransico psychedelic era which produced the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother was far more roots - based, and was the perfect vehical fro Joplin's raw, emotion - laden blues vocals. | ||||||||||||||||
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