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JANIS JOPLIN . PEARL REVISITED (2017): Getting it while she could

...today with the vocal power and authority of Janis Joplin. Although she has been hailed as the first... ...a powerful, muscular and energetic performer Janis Joplin could be when she had a great band behind here... ...holler, heart and commitment to a stage. Janis Joplin put it all out there for her people and, sadly...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: The Essential Janis Joplin

...rock'n'roll blues belters. Hart -- who played Janis Joplin in a theatre production -- comes from that... ...singer. There is a deeper consideration of Janis Joplin here....

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Janis Joplin: Trouble in Mind (1965)

...great Janis Joplin has been dead for over four decades now but it...

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JANIS JOPLIN CONSIDERED (2011): Singing out the painful sparks within

...pantheon of Dead Sixties Rock Stars, Janis Joplin has been the one least well served. Jimi is... ...Rose, and that’s about right. But maybe Janis Joplin is of too little interest to be taken... ...a much bigger photo. The solid tombstone of Janis Joplin music arrived in 1993, apropos of no... ...role model and lifestyle template for Joplin. Janis Joplin was on of the truly great singers (and...

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Elsewhere Art . . . Janis Joplin

...it, but I wrote a major piece about the great Janis Joplin, noting that of all the dead rock star legends... ...hence the slurry multiples. You can read my Janis Joplin piece here. For other Art by Elsewhere go...

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MOTHER OF ROCK: LILLIAN ROXON, a doco by PAUL CLARKE

...mundane to the remarkable (Warhol's Factory, Janis Joplin, Hendrix) and was one the first passionate...

Film at Elsewhere: film/3863/mother-of-rock-lillian-roxon-a-doco-by-paul-clarke/

SHORT CUTS: A round-up of recent New Zealand releases

...written about how paint-stripping singers like Janis Joplin and more recently the stunning Beth Hart must...

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THE MOVE: ALWAYS AND FOREVER; BELATEDLY (2022): Classic pop, great rock then forgot

...Piece of My Heart (only just made famous by Janis Joplin), the Everly Brother’s The Price of...

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JACK WHITE INTERVIEWED (2003): The heat on the rising son

...of mortality. He was 27 -- the same age Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain checked out --...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS: Trip, stumble and fall

...Big Brother and the Holding company (with Janis Joplin), Otis Redding and other luminaries. Yet just...

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LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING; SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970: Flowers and freak outs

...Brother and the Holding Company (fronted by Janis Joplin) with their live version of Down on Me,...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Charlotte Ivey and Harley Williams of The Tiny Lies

...made it... Alanis Morrisette at intermediate, Janis Joplin at High School. Harley: Roxette. But hey they...

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THE BEE GEES INTERVIEWED (1999). Inside Hitsville FLA

...Bee Gees songs makes jaw-dropping reading: Janis Joplin, Al Green, Diana Ross, Celine Dion, Elvis...

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Judy Henske: Wade in the Water (1963)

...later I would I hear it as the forerunner of Janis Joplin's raw style. Before you look at the clip, just...

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DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD by ERIC BURDON

...his famous friends John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Elvis and Jimi Hendrix. All of them dead -...

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Sayed Sabrina: Thou Art That (digital outlets)

...something akin to Grace Slick channeling Janis Joplin and Toni Childs at the same time. But it's...

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Jimi Hendrix: Valleys of Neptune (Sony)

...sells, just ask -- if you could -- Elvis, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, John Lennon and...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2892/jimi-hendrix-valleys-of-neptune-sony/

THE BARGAIN BUY: Frankie Miller: Original Album Series

...Francisco by Elliot Mazer who had worked with Janis Joplin and Neil Young. It was credited to the Frankie...

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ROCK'N'ROLL NEVER FORGETS: A journey back through time

...sounds, style and location changed: the Byrds, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead,...

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ELVIS PRESLEY, THE KING RECLAIMING HIS CROWN IN 1968: Stranger in a strange land

...Sinatra special in May 1960. While the Doors, Janis Joplin, the Beatles, Vietnam and Black Panthers...

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KRIS KRISTOFFERSON INTERVIEWED (2005): Rebel with a scholarship

...McGee was covered by Roger Miller, and then Janis Joplin. The line “freedom’s just another... ...Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Sam Peckinpah and Janis Joplin (which reminded you of the stature he has and...

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JUDEE SILL (1944-79): The disappearing crayon angel

...Berryhill . . . And who these days even cites Janis Joplin either as an influence, or simply as someone...

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Beth Hart: You Still Got Me (digital outlets)

...a measure of her vocal power – playing Janis Joplin in an off-Broadway musical. She's still had...

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Little Richard: Here's Little Richard (1957)

...admitted he copped a lot of Richard's style. Janis Joplin said "I'd fly across the country to see...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Donna Dean

...embarrassing) role models in music were . . . Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. Lennon or Jagger, Ramones...

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BOB DYLAN, 1960-1962 (2023): The man, the music, the myth-making and the marketing

...managed Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary but also Janis Joplin (whom he adored) and many other acts on the...

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STEVIE NICKS OF FLEETWOOD MAC INTERVIEWED (2006): Actually, not such a gypsy queen

...the hugest thing that was happening. There was Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, all those amazing San... ...don't wear jeans now. I wear pants now, little Janis Joplin-type silky pants. I've never seen a photo of...

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BETH HART INTERVIEWED (2000): Stories to sell and tell

...My Supper. She also auditioned for the part of Janis Joplin in the stage production Love, Janis . . . and...

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Ian and Sylvia: You Were On My Mind (1964)

...the Grateful Dead, the Band, Buddy Guy and Janis Joplin, a tour notorious for its booze and...

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Beth Hart: War in My Mind (Provogue/digital outlets)

...Home album – sang with the raw power of Janis Joplin and the soul of Billie Holiday, was grateful...

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The Tedeschi Trucks Band: Made Up Mind (Sony)

...can belt out blues with the fervour of Janis Joplin, and with husband/guitarist Derek Trucks (who...

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THE ROLLING STONES' GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! (2009): The '69 Garden party

...Klein then also seducing the Beatles, a drunk Janis Joplin, Chuck Berry, composer Leonard Bernstein, the...

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FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK, a doco by BOBBI JO HART

...player Nickey Barclay could roar like Janis Joplin, guitarist Julie was a thrilling player and in...

Film at Elsewhere: film/11248/fanny-the-right-to-rock-a-doco-by-bobbi-jo-hart/

BOB DYLAN, AND DA PENNEBAKER INTERVIEWED (2007). Looking back on Bob

...Brian Epstein. Grossman -- who later managed Janis Joplin, Todd Rundgren and The Band -- had a few folk...

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Joanne Shaw Taylor: Diamonds in the Dirt (Ruf)

...which has her edging towards Etta James -- or Janis Joplin in her more reflective moments. This is her...

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JOHN SIMON INTERVIEWED (2016): Putting on the Waltz

...Cheap Thrills (the album that launched singer Janis Joplin on an unsuspecting world) to Simon and...

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SONIC YOUTH'S THURSTON MOORE INTERVIEWED (1990): Corporate greed and the politics of music

...he says. After Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin died, the record companies tried to take...

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Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa: Don't Explain (J&R Adventures)

...Joplin would scare the daylight out of most sleeve...

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James Cotton: Cotton Mouth Man (Alligator/Southbound)

...the fickle interest in the blues, toured with Janis Joplin, played the Fillmores and Carnegie Hall, won a...

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COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH: ELECTRIC MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND BODY, CONSIDERED (1967): Psychedelic politico-pop

...alongside Hendrix, the Dead, Big Brother (Janis Joplin was McDonald's partner for a while) and...

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MAHALIA JACKSON: NEWPORT 1958, CONSIDERED (1958): Twelve steps to heaven

...is on the Sparrow) and echoes can be heard in Janis Joplin. But Jackson was a rare and singular talent....

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New York, USA: Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning

...Bob Dylan, and Warhol's crowd in the Sixties. Janis Joplin famously had sex with Leonard Cohen here...

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Flame: This Old Heart of Mine (1978)

...Her delivery sometimes drew comparisons with Janis Joplin and she certainly attracted all the right...

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ONE WE MISSED: Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa: Live in Amsterdam (Southbound)

...paring with singer Beth Hart -- she closer to Janis Joplin than Janis Ian -- has been so successful. They...

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Banditos: Banditos (Bloodshot/Southbound)

...early Sixties blues bands from Chicago and Janis Joplin on repeat-play in the flatbed. That's not to...

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GORDON RAPHAEL, PRODUCER OF THE STROKES, INTERVIEWED (2004): The sky cries wary

...As a kid, the first live act Raphael saw was Janis Joplin, and later he loved bands from the British...

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ALABAMA SHAKES. BOYS & GIRLS, CONSIDERED (2012): Raw and roaring out the gate

...from Curtis Mayfield, Stax soul, Aretha, Janis Joplin, blues-rock bands . . . But it wears them well...

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THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2012: READERS' CHOICES

...Girls. What Kings Of Leon would sound like if Janis Joplin was the singer Mala; Mala In Cuba. Not a big...

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MIRIAM CLANCY INTERVIEWED (2006): Career opportunities

...her mum who played Little Feat, Neil Young, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez and Neil Diamond around the house....

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MICKIE MOST CONSIDERED (2019): Pop music all present and correct, Sir. Future predicted . . .

...had an offer [from Elektra] to be the new Janis Joplin and [Mickie] said to me, 'How d'you fancy...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: Revelator (Masterworks)

...Bonnie Raitt and sometimes edged as close to Janis Joplin as dammit. It was quite something to hear --... ...(sharing its name with the Big Mama Thornton/Janis Joplin classic). Not everything works (the ballad...

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Nicole Atkins: Neptune City (Sony BMG)

...and then Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and onwards) the wispy wee-girl types like...

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EMEL MATHLOUTHI INTERVIEWED (2014): You say you want a revolution

...listening to Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin . . . That music appeals to teenage energy....

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PAULA COLE, INTERVIEWED (1999): Arm-en to that

...hip-hop."In the past we loved Elvis, Janis Joplin, the Beatles. These are all artists who are...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Plum Green

...really affected you was . . . A number by Janis Joplin. I was really young, maybe about five. It was...

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JUST KIDS by PATTI SMITH: Nourished by love and art

...and the encounters with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, playwright Sam Shepard and others. There is...

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JEFFERSON AIRPLANE'S 1993 BOX SET: Fasten your seat belts

...classically trained, briefly sideman with Janis Joplin and a folk-blues player who assimilated Indian...

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Maggie Bell: The Best of Maggie Bell (Angel Air/Southbound CD/DVD)

Bell was one of those paint-peeling, bluesy post-Joplin singers of the late Sixties and Seventies whose path crossed that of Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon and others with wh

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DOCPLAY DELIVERING (2021): The truth is out there . . .

...on Liam Gallagher, Shihad, Mavis Staples, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, the Laurel Canyon scene in the...

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Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (1967)

...Musicians in that year when the Doors, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix (among others) were towering...

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Beth Hart: Better Than Home (Provogue/Warners)

...woman who has the raw nerve abrasiveness of Janis Joplin here also delivers classic sounding soul (the...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6915/beth-hart-better-than-home-provogue-warners/

Kris Kristofferson; Civic, Auckland. April 30, 2014

...Billy Dee – written after the death of Janis Joplin – is lifted beyond its era of the...

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Joan Osborne: Taking qawwali to the kids

...came off as intelligent in interviews, admired Janis Joplin and could sing like her when she wanted, had...

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Susan Tedeschi: Back to the River (Universal)

...has rarely been in rock music since the late Janis Joplin. In an age of coy and infantile women singers... ...like -- and of course that wandering spirit of Janis Joplin. My guess after interviewing Trucks was that...

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KOKO TAYLOR. THE EARTHSHAKER, CONSIDERED (1978): We gonna shake it Wang Dang Doodle . . .

...than local. But her influence was profound: Janis Joplin, Shemekia Copeland and Bonnie Raitt among her...

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GUEST WRITER OWEN WOOD looks at when genius gets the blues

...others did it through belligerent alcoholism; Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and far too many...

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IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent international releases

...swing or sting the blues, has the firepower of Janis Joplin or the fragile emotions of a Billie Holiday,...

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Koko Taylor: Old School (Southbound)

...She is Chicago blues epitomised, influenced Janis Joplin, writes songs which sound like classic 50s...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/1189/koko-taylor-old-school-southbound/

Seasick Steve: You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks (Liberator)

...who makes or adapts his own guitars, counted Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain as friends and had Grinderman,...

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Big Brother and the Holding Company: Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills (Sony)

...of the grit, depth and soul-scouring style of Janis Joplin. And even fewer seem to aspire to that kind of...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8708/big-brother-and-the-holding-company-sex-dope-and-cheap-thrills-sony/

Seasick Steve: I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Got Most of it Left (Warners)

...could count among his friends in a long life Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell and Kurt Cobain,and he also...

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Moriarty: Gee Whiz but this is a Lonesome Town (Carte!l/Border)

...lets her voice gain strength, reaches towards Janis Joplin (at her rather more restrained) and there is a...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2953/moriarty-gee-whiz-but-this-is-a-lonesome-town-cartel-border/

Kris Kristofferson: Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends (Light in the Attic/Rhythmethod)

Elsewhere agrees with itself that Willie Nelson makes too many albums these days (although the last one Country Music was excellent). But the collection to return to repeatedly is Classic and Unreleas

Music at Elsewhere: music/3284/kris-kristofferson-please-dont-tell-me-how-the-story-ends-light-in-the-attic-rhythmethod/

The Warlocks: Can't Come Down (1965)

By the mid Sixties the spirit and style of poetic Bob Dylan was everywhere as singers and writers tried to match his surreal wordplay. Dylan's harmonica, image heavy lyrics and monotone is everywhere

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JEFFERSON AIRPLANE; THE SIDE PROJECTS 1970-74: The Baron and the Nun go it alone, together

The New York garageband Blues Magoos' Psychedelic Lollipop of 1966 was one of the first albums to have the word “psychedelic” in the title, but it wasn't quite the spaced-out sweet thing t

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/3998/jefferson-airplane-the-side-projects-1970-74-the-baron-and-the-nun-go-it-alone-together/

The Great! Society: Somebody to Love (1966)

There were at least three different versions of this psychedelic classic which is best known in its third incarnation by Jefferson Airplane. But the song dated back to before that '66 single/album tra

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I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER: THE PSYCHEDELIC YEARS 1965-69 edited by JAMES HENKE AND PARKE PUTERBAUGH

Somewhere among my old photographs at home is one of me standing beside John Lennon’s psychedelic Rolls Royce. It was London in late ‘69 and -- aside from revealing the embarrassing affect

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/2884/i-want-to-take-you-higher-the-psychedelic-years-1965-69-edited-by-james-henke-and-parke-puterbaugh/

Barry McGuire: California Dreamin' (1965)

After his growling and apocalyptic version of PF Sloan's Eve of Destruction in '65 the former folkie Barry McGuire -- who had been in the New Christy Minstrels and had co-written their big hit Green G

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13th Floor Elevators: 7th Heaven; Music of the Spheres (Charly/Southbound)

As with Syd Barrett, the music of 13th Floor Elevators has been overshadowed by the story of the madness, in the case of the Elevators the increasingly bizarre behaviour of their frontman Roky Erickso

Music at Elsewhere: music/2937/13th-floor-elevators-7th-heaven-music-of-the-spheres-charly-southbound/

Hollie Smith: Humour and the Misfortune of Others (EMI)

This can be extremely brief given that Smith's story, travails and so on have been much canvassed. But what hasn't been said too often or too loudly is that while her previous album Long Player sold e

Music at Elsewhere: music/2974/hollie-smith-humour-and-the-misfortune-of-others-emi/

WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE; A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS, a doco by TOM DICILLO (Madman DVD)

Two things strike you immediately about this much vaunted and Grammy award-winning doco: That Jim Morrison was a man of brooding good looks except when he smiled and then he looked just plain goofy (a

Film at Elsewhere: film/4211/when-youre-strange-a-film-about-the-doors-a-doco-by-tom-dicillo-madman-dvd/

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