Janis
Her Life and Music
A Texas outsider who heard the blues and became rock's most exposed voice.
Holly George-Warren draws on Joplin’s letters and on interviews with her family and bandmates to trace a bookish, bullied girl from Port Arthur, Texas, who found the blues and rebuilt herself around them. The book is good on the music and better on the cost: the loneliness behind the public appetite, and the heroin that killed her at twenty-seven, months after Hendrix.
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Susan Page
A brash musical trailblazer who sensed the power of the blues, Janis Joplin would find her place as the impassioned queen of rock, but she could never escape her personal demons.
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