(From the 1967 album "Big ... Grossman's office. Janis' version, recorded for "Pearl," was a posthumous #1 hit and put a then-unknown Kristofferson on the map. Another signature Joplin song ...

Crumb: The famed counter-culture cartoonist designed the cover for Big Brother and the Holding Company’s “Cheap Thrills” album, which was a No. 1 record in 1968. “Love, Janis”: Joplin ...

Many critics say it was Joplin's best album. She'd begun to take more control of her voice, and was the first woman to make it big in rock. Yet Echols says she really has no imitators.

Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” was an accident. The song’s lyrics were written at a Port Chester, N.Y., bar in August 1970 during an impromptu poetry jam between Joplin and songwriter ...

Her career may have been cut short, but Janis Joplin's psychedelic blues legacy lives on with the limited-edition CD box set "Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection." Included are Joplin's two ...

(The album was released posthumously in 1971, following Joplin's fatal overdose in 1970.) "Rothchild [is] known for being this very authoritarian producer, but ... Janis was just coming up with ...

Janis Joplin ... Their first album for Columbia, Cheap Thrills, in 1968 went gold, with hits like "Piece of My Heart" and "Summertime." But the attention paid to Joplin's talents caused tension ...

On Oct. 4, 1970, legendary singer Janis ... of 1968, Joplin made her first historic solo performance at Woodstock in August of 1969. A month later, Joplin released her first solo album “I ...

Here are nine albums created by artists based in San Francisco at the time that are quite essential ... this album should be ...

“This performance contains very loud music,” read a notice in the foyer of A Night with Janis Joplin: The Musical ... she’d released just one solo album. A second, Pearl, followed ...

but Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” packs more wallop in its way than countless tracks by full bands. The song is one of the classics that made her 1971 album Pearl such a runaway success ...

In a span of five years, Janis ... album, Pearl (“Get It While You Can,” “Cry Baby,” “My Baby”)—which was originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967 and released a year later by ...