(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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sitting with “The Howard Stern Show” in promotion of her new album “Trustfall” on Thursday, P!nk was asked point blank what happened to the project. “I’ve seen you do Janis Joplin ...

Herb Greene, whose iconic photographs of the 1960 San Francisco rock scene captured the era’s superstars — Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin ... successful 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow ...