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Blues-rock musician Janis Joplin’s screaming soulful voice in many ways is a personification of the Flower Power Era (along with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon, Grace Slick and many others). She came to symbolize energy of the Psychedelic, Haight Ashbury, love beads, love ins, free love, flower children, black light posters and incense, expansion of consciousness, spiritualism soaked in the unusual drug idealism of the late 1960’s. It was a time of bright hope and optimism and the shedding of many social-psychological-sexual traditions that went sour.
Janis came on this scene with a singing style not heard before on the playlists of white American radio stations. Her singing was more like that of Aretha Franklin and other blues/gospel singers than the typical white girl songstress. However, her greatest influence came from earlier female blues singers such as Odetta, Memphis Minnie, and particularly Bessie Smith for whom, upon discovering she had been buried in an unmarked grave, Janis provided a headstone in August 1970, just two months before she herself passed away.
She died on October 4th 1970 at the age of 27 due to a heroin overdose. She is a member of the “27 Club,” a group composed of musicians who all died at the age of 27, along with other artists including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Brian Jones.
Janis came on this scene with a singing style not heard before on the playlists of white American radio stations. Her singing was more like that of Aretha Franklin and other blues/gospel singers than the typical white girl songstress. However, her greatest influence came from earlier female blues singers such as Odetta, Memphis Minnie, and particularly Bessie Smith for whom, upon discovering she had been buried in an unmarked grave, Janis provided a headstone in August 1970, just two months before she herself passed away.
She died on October 4th 1970 at the age of 27 due to a heroin overdose. She is a member of the “27 Club,” a group composed of musicians who all died at the age of 27, along with other artists including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Brian Jones.
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Mercedes Benz
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Cry Baby
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Move Over
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Get It While You Can
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Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
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Down on Me
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Kozmic Blues
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Ball and Chain
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Maybe
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A Woman Left Lonely
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Half Moon
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Trust Me
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grymer wrote:
loveeeeee!!!!!
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insomniee wrote:
Great voice . < 3 Great music . < 3
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MAG-music wrote:
crrrrrrrryyyyyyy baaaaaaaaabyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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nennee_ wrote:
Greatest female voice ever!
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Margarida922 wrote:
This woman <3
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przt wrote:
Join to new group — Heroin wave!
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ChemicalEsi wrote:
Have another little piece of my heart now : DD...
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lunatykowaty wrote:
great voice, great blues!
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kluuuseq wrote:
<3!
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waz3U2 wrote:
<33
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LiliQueen wrote:
Forever...
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revoltingly wrote:
When I'm on the road, playin' in a town without a name.
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kodoku_tmusic wrote:
Her.! <3
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albanit_bjs wrote:
Thanks! :)
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general08 wrote:
she said "call on me is fu***in' cool"
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albanit_bjs wrote:
what? ↓
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irka_rump wrote:
"Call on me" ну ебануться какая крутая
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GroovyPeople wrote:
Move Over is her best. So damn hard-hitting, rockin' and funky.
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negalvok wrote:
English is not my native language so could someone explain one Janis song. What it means "Work me, Lord"?
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Janis Joplin: 2009 American Music Master
23 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/janisjoplin
Check out these two sites for a news article and more information!http://www.rockhall.com/janisjoplinammhttp://www.cleveland.com/popmusic/index.ssf/2009/10/lucinda_williams_guy_clark_non.html
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