Fifty years ago today Janis Joplin was three months gone, but her status as an ageless popular music icon was just beginning with the release of “Pearl.” The album sounds bracing even a half century ...

"This is a night that will rock your world!" - Los Angeles Times Like a comet that burns far too brightly to last, Janis Joplin exploded onto the music scene in 1967 and, almost overnight, became the ...

Music journalist Holly George-Warren, author of the new biography, "Janis: Her Life and Music" (published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS), offers "CBS Sunday Morning" a roster of favorite ...

Don't expect much in the way of personal revelation or public misbehavior. Apart from sucking on a bottle of Southern Comfort, this Janis is quite composed and sedate between songs. She tells charming ...

There were other talented white female blues-rock singers in the late ’60s and early ’70s—Bonnie Bramlett, Tracy Nelson, Bonnie Raitt—but they survived, continued recording and are today admired ...

Rock icon Janis Joplin grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. The music of Janis Joplin is perhaps associated more often with places like San Francisco or maybe Woodstock than it is southeast Texas. But ...

Joplin gave the world many classic songs. Among them are “Kozmic Blues,” “Down On Me,” “Cry Baby,” and “Get It While You Can.” However, only one of these songs became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...

Since it's Monday, I was going to do a blog analyzing various songs about Mondays, from the usual suspects like the Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays" to lesser-known odes like Fleetwood Mac's ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. – Holly George-Warren was 12 years old and living in a small town in North Carolina when she first discovered Janis Joplin. Already hooked on rock-and-roll thanks to a little AM radio ...

If sandpaper and soul met a rose and birthed a child, that child would probably sound something like Janis Joplin. Joplin sang from the soul and with a voice hewn as if from sandpaper. And she lived a ...

Robert Plant has never been shy about the singers who shaped him, but one of the most surprising names on that list is Janis ...

Discover the tragic final days of rock legend Janis Joplin, from her untimely death to her enduring legacy. A story of life, ...