Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American rock,
Janis Joplin
soul, and blues singer-songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely
known rock stars of her era.[1][2][3] After releasing three albums, she died of a
heroin overdose at the age of 27. A fourth album, Pearl, was released in January
1971, just over three months after her death. It reached number one on the
Billboard charts.

In 1967, Joplin rose to fame following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival,

where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic
rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company.[4][5][6] After releasing two
albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her
own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie
Band. She appeared at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour.
Five singles by Joplin reached the Billboard Hot 100, including a cover of the
Kris Kristofferson song "Me and Bobby McGee", which reached number 1 in
March 1971.[7] Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "Piece of
My Heart", "Cry Baby", "Down on Me", "Ball and Chain", and "Summertime";
and her original song "Mercedes Benz", her final recording.[8][9] Joplin performing in 1969
Born Janis Lyn Joplin
Joplin, a mezzo-soprano[10] highly respected for her charismatic performing
January 19, 1943
ability, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
Port Arthur,
Audiences and critics alike referred to her stage presence as "electric". Rolling
Texas, U.S.
Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All
Time[11] and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She
Died October 4, 1970
remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with Recording
(aged 27)
Industry Association of America certifications of 15.5 million albums sold.[12]
Los Angeles,
California, U.S.
Cause of death Heroin overdose

Contents Resting place Cremated; ashes

scattered into the
Early life Pacific Ocean
1943–1961: Early years
Other names Pearl
Career
1962–1965: Early recordings Occupation Singer-songwriter
1966–1969: Various bands Musical career
1969–1970: Solo career
Genres Psychedelic rock
Personal life
· soul · blues
Death
Instruments Vocals · guitar
Legacy
Years active 1962–1970
Influence
Discography Labels Columbia
Full discography Records
Billboard chart Associated acts Big Brother and
 Albums the Holding
Singles discography Company ·
Filmography Kozmic Blues
Samples Band · Full Tilt
References Boogie Band ·
Further reading
Grateful Dead ·
Kris Kristofferson
External links
Website janisjoplin.com (h
ttp://janisjoplin.co
Early life m)
Signature

1943–1961: Early years

Janis Lyn Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on January 19, 1943,[13] to
Dorothy Bonita East (1913–1998), a registrar at a business college, and her
husband, Seth Ward Joplin (1910–1987), an engineer at Texaco. She had two
younger siblings, Michael and Laura. The family belonged to the Churches of
Christ denomination.[14]

Her parents felt that Janis needed more attention than their other children.[15] As a
teenager, Joplin befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by blues artists
Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her
decision to become a singer.[16] She began singing blues and folk music with friends at
Thomas Jefferson High School.[17][18][19][20] Former Oklahoma State University and
Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Jimmy Johnson was a high school classmate of Joplin.[21]

Joplin stated that she was ostracized and bullied in high school.[16] As a teen, she became
overweight and suffered from acne, leaving her with deep scars that required
dermabrasion.[15][22][23] Other kids at high school would routinely taunt her and call her Joplin in 1960 as a
graduating senior in high
names like "pig," "freak," "nigger lover," or "creep." [15] She stated, "I was a misfit. I read,
school
I painted, I thought. I didn't hate niggers."[24]

Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended Lamar State College of
Technology in Beaumont, Texas, during the summer[22] and later the University of Texas at Austin (UT), though she did not
complete her college studies.[25] The campus newspaper, The Daily Texan, ran a profile of her in the issue dated July 27, 1962,
headlined "She Dares to Be Different."[25] The article began, "She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levis to class
because they're more comfortable, and carries her autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break
into song, it will be handy. Her name is Janis Joplin."[25] While at UT she performed with a folk trio called the Waller Creek
Boys and frequently socialized with the staff of the campus humor magazine The Texas Ranger.[26] According to Freak Brothers
cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, who befriended her, she used to sell The Texas Ranger, which contained some of Shelton's early comic
books, on the campus.

Career

1962–1965: Early recordings

Joplin cultivated a rebellious manner and styled herself partly after her female blues heroines and partly after the Beat poets. Her
first song, "What Good Can Drinkin' Do", was recorded on tape in December 1962 at the home of a fellow University of Texas
student.[27]

She left Texas in January 1963 ("Just to get away," she said, "because my head was in a much different place"),[28] hitchhiking
with her friend Chet Helms to North Beach, San Francisco. Still in San Francisco in 1964, Joplin and future Jefferson Airplane
guitarist Jorma Kaukonen recorded a number of blues standards, which incidentally featured Kaukonen's wife Margareta using a
typewriter in the background. This session included seven tracks: "Typewriter Talk", "Trouble in Mind", "Kansas City Blues",
"Hesitation Blues", "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out", "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy", and "Long Black Train Blues",
and was released long after Joplin's death as the bootleg album The Typewriter Tape.

In 1963, Joplin was arrested in San Francisco for shoplifting. During the two years that followed, her drug use increased and she
acquired a reputation as a "speed freak" and occasional heroin user.[13][16][22] She also used other psychoactive drugs and was a
heavy drinker throughout her career; her favorite alcoholic beverage was Southern Comfort.

In May 1965, Joplin's friends in San Francisco, noticing the detrimental effects on her from regularly injecting methamphetamine
(she was described as "skeletal"[16] and "emaciated"[13]), persuaded her to return to Port Arthur. During that month, her friends
threw her a bus-fare party so she could return to her parents in Texas.[13] Five years later, Joplin told Rolling Stone magazine
writer David Dalton the following about her first stint in San Francisco: "I didn't have many friends and I didn't like the ones I
had."[29]

Back in Port Arthur in the spring of 1965, after Joplin's parents noticed her weight of 88 pounds (40 kg),[23] she changed her
lifestyle. She avoided drugs and alcohol, adopted a beehive hairdo, and enrolled as an anthropology major at Lamar University in
nearby Beaumont, Texas. During her time at Lamar University, she commuted to Austin to sing solo, accompanying herself on
acoustic guitar. One of her performances was at a benefit by local musicians for Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb, who was
suffering with ill health.

Joplin became engaged to Peter de Blanc in the fall of 1965.[30] She had begun a relationship with him toward the end of her first
stint in San Francisco.[30] Now living in New York where he worked with IBM computers,[31][32] he visited her to ask her father
for her hand in marriage.[33] Joplin and her mother began planning the wedding.[23][33] De Blanc, who traveled frequently,[30]
ended the engagement soon afterward.[23][30]

In 1965 and 1966, Joplin commuted from her family's Port Arthur home to Beaumont, Texas, where she had regular sessions with
a psychiatric social worker named Bernard Giarritano[23] at a counseling agency that was funded by the United Fund, which after
her death changed its name to the United Way.[13] Interviewed by biographer Myra Friedman after his client's death, Giarritano
said Joplin had been baffled by how she could pursue a professional career as a singer without relapsing into drugs, and her drug-
related memories from immediately prior to returning to Port Arthur continued to frighten her.[23] Joplin sometimes brought an
acoustic guitar with her to her sessions with Giarritano, and people in other offices within the building could hear her singing.[13]

Giarritano tried to reassure her that she did not have to use narcotics in order to succeed in the music business.[23] She also said
that if she were to avoid singing professionally, she would have to become a keypunch operator (as she had done a few years
earlier) or a secretary, and then a wife and mother, and she would have to become very similar to all the other women in Port
Arthur.[23]

Approximately a year before Joplin joined Big Brother and the Holding Company, she recorded seven studio tracks with her
acoustic guitar. Among the songs she recorded were her original composition for the song "Turtle Blues" and an alternate version
of "Cod'ine" by Buffy Sainte-Marie. These tracks were later issued as a new album in 1995, titled This is Janis Joplin 1965 by
James Gurley.
1966–1969: Various bands
In 1966, Joplin's bluesy vocal style attracted the attention of the San Francisco-
based psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, which had
gained some renown among the nascent hippie community in Haight-
Ashbury.[34] She was recruited to join the group by Chet Helms, a promoter who
had known her in Texas and who at the time was managing Big Brother. Helms
sent his friend Travis Rivers to find her in Austin, Texas, where she had been
performing with her acoustic guitar, and to accompany her to San Francisco.

Aware of her previous nightmare with drug addiction in San Francisco, Rivers
insisted that she inform her parents face-to-face of her plans, and he drove her
Joplin (seated) with Big Brother and
from Austin to Port Arthur (he waited in his car while she talked with her
the Holding Company, c. 1966–1967
startled parents) before they began their long drive to San Francisco. Joplin
photograph Bob Seidemann
joined Big Brother on June 4, 1966.[35] Her first public performance with them
was at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.

In June, Joplin was photographed at an outdoor concert in San Francisco that celebrated the summer solstice. The image, which
was later published in two books by David Dalton, shows her before she relapsed into drugs. Due to persistent persuading by
keyboardist and close friend Stephen Ryder, Joplin avoided drugs for several weeks, enjoining bandmate Dave Getz to promise
that using needles would not be allowed in their rehearsal space, her apartment, or in the homes of her bandmates whom she
visited.[23] When a visitor injected drugs in front of Joplin and Getz, Joplin angrily reminded Getz that he had broken his
promise.[23]

A San Francisco concert from that summer (1966) was recorded and released in the 1984 album Cheaper Thrills. In July, all five
bandmates and guitarist James Gurley's wife Nancy moved to a house in Lagunitas, California, where they lived communally.
They often partied with the Grateful Dead, who lived less than two miles away. She had a short relationship and longer friendship
with founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.[36]

The band went to Chicago for a four-week engagement in August 1966, then found themselves stranded after the promoter ran
out of money when their concerts did not attract the expected audience levels, and he was unable to pay them.[37] In the
circumstances the band signed to Bob Shad's record label Mainstream Records; recordings for the label took place in Chicago in
September, but these were not satisfactory, and the band returned to San Francisco, continuing to perform live, including at the
Love Pageant Rally.[38][39] The band recorded two tracks, "Blindman" and "All Is Loneliness", in Los Angeles, and these were
released by Mainstream as a single which did not sell well.[40] After playing at a "happening" in Stanford in early December
1966, the band travelled back to Los Angeles to record ten tracks between December 12 and 14, 1966, produced by Bob Shad,
which appeared on the band's debut album in August 1967.[40]

One of Joplin's earliest major performances in 1967 was at the Mantra-Rock Dance, a musical event held on January 29 at the
Avalon Ballroom by the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple. Janis Joplin and Big Brother performed there along with the Hare
Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, Allen Ginsberg, Moby Grape, and Grateful Dead, donating proceeds to the Krishna
temple.[42][43][44] In early 1967, Joplin met Country Joe McDonald of the group Country Joe and the Fish. The pair lived
together as a couple for a few months.[13][29] Joplin and Big Brother began playing clubs in San Francisco, at the Fillmore West,
Winterland and the Avalon Ballroom. They also played at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, as well as in Seattle, Washington,
Vancouver, British Columbia, the Psychedelic Supermarket in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Golden Bear Club in Huntington
Beach, California.[29]

In late 1966, Big Brother switched managers from Chet Helms to Julius Karpen.[16]
The band's debut studio album, Big Brother & the Holding Company, was
released by Mainstream Records in August 1967, shortly after the group's
breakthrough appearance in June at the Monterey Pop Festival.[28] Two tracks,
"Coo Coo" and "The Last Time", were released separately as singles, while the
tracks from the previous single, "Blindman" and "All Is Loneliness", were added
to the remaining eight tracks.[40] When Columbia Records took over the band's
contract and re-released the album, they included "Coo Coo" and "The Last
Time", and put "featuring Janis Joplin" on the cover. The debut album spawned
four minor hits with the singles "Down on Me", a traditional song arranged by
Joplin, "Bye Bye Baby", "Call On Me" and "Coo Coo", on all of which Joplin
sang lead vocals.
Joplin's house in Haight-Ashbury,
Two songs from the second of Big Brother's two sets at Monterey, which they
where she lived with Country Joe[41]
played on Sunday, were filmed (their first set, which was on Saturday, was not
filmed, though it was audio-recorded). Some sources, including a Joplin
biography by Ellis Amburn, claim that she was dressed in thrift store hippie clothes or second-hand Victorian clothes during the
band's Saturday set,[16] but still photographs do not appear to have survived). Digitized color film of two songs in the Sunday set,
"Combination of the Two" and a version of Big Mama Thornton's "Ball and Chain", appear in the DVD box set of D. A.
Pennebaker's documentary Monterey Pop released by The Criterion Collection. She is seen wearing an expensive gold tunic dress
with matching pants.[45] They were created for her by San Francisco clothing designer Colin Rose.[45]

Documentary filmmaker Pennebaker inserted two cutaway shots of Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas seated in the audience
during Joplin's performance of "Ball and Chain", one in the middle of the song as her eyes, covered by sunglasses, are fixed on
Joplin, and also a shot during the applause as she silently mouths "Oh, wow!" and looks at the person seated next to her. Elliot
and the audience are seen in sunlight, but Sunday's Big Brother performance was filmed in the evening.[46][47] An explanation
has come from Big Brother's road manager John Byrne Cooke, who remembers that Pennebaker discreetly filmed the audience
(including Elliot) during Big Brother's Saturday performance when he was not allowed to point a camera at the band.[48]

The prohibition of Pennebaker from filming on Saturday afternoon came from Big Brother's manager Julius Karpen.[48] The band
had a bitter argument with Karpen and overruled him as they prepared for their second set that the festival organizers had added
on the spur of the moment.[48] Backstage at the festival, the band became acquainted with New York-based talent manager Albert
Grossman, but did not sign with him until several months later, firing Karpen at that time.[48]

Only "Ball and Chain" was included in the Monterey Pop film that was released to cinemas throughout the United States in 1969
and shown on television in the 1970s. Those who did not attend the Monterey Pop Festival saw the band's performance of
"Combination of the Two" for the first time in 2002 when The Criterion Collection released the box set.

For the remainder of 1967, even after Big Brother signed with Albert Grossman, they performed mainly in California. On
February 16, 1968,[49] the group began its first East Coast tour in Philadelphia, and the following day gave their first performance
in New York City at the Anderson Theater.[13][16] On April 7, 1968, the last day of their East Coast tour, Joplin and Big Brother
performed with Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, Paul Butterfield, and Elvin Bishop at the "Wake for
Martin Luther King, Jr." concert in New York.

Live at Winterland '68, recorded at the Winterland Ballroom on April 12 and 13, 1968, features Joplin and Big Brother and the
Holding Company at the height of their mutual career working through a selection of tracks from their albums. A recording
became available to the public for the first time in 1998 when Sony Music Entertainment released the compact disc. One month
after the Winterland concert, Owsley Stanley recorded them at the Carousel Ballroom, released in 2012 as Live at the Carousel
Ballroom 1968.
On July 31, 1968, Joplin made her first nationwide television appearance when the band performed on This Morning, an ABC
daytime 90-minute variety show hosted by Dick Cavett. Shortly thereafter, network employees wiped the videotape, though the
audio survives. (In 1969 and 1970, Joplin made three appearances on Cavett's prime-time program. Video was preserved and
excerpts have been included in most documentaries about Joplin. Audio of her 1968 appearance has not been used since then.)

Sometime in 1968, the band's billing was changed to "Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company,"[29] and the media
coverage given to Joplin generated resentment within the band.[29] The other members of Big Brother thought that Joplin was on
a "star trip", while others were telling Joplin that Big Brother was a terrible band and that she ought to dump them.[29] Time
magazine called Joplin "probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement", and Richard Goldstein
wrote for the May 1968 issue of Vogue magazine that Joplin was "the most staggering leading woman in rock ... she slinks like
tar, scowls like war ... clutching the knees of a final stanza, begging it not to leave ... Janis Joplin can sing the chic off any
listener."[15]

For her first major studio recording, Joplin played a major role in the arrangement and production of the songs that would
comprise Big Brother and the Holding Company's second album, Cheap Thrills. During the recording sessions, produced by John
Simon, Joplin was said to be the first person to enter the studio and the last person to leave. Footage of Joplin and the band in the
studio shows Joplin in great form and taking charge during the recording for "Summertime". The album featured a cover design
by counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb.

Although Cheap Thrills sounded as if it consisted of concert recordings, like on "Combination of the Two" and "I Need a Man to
Love", only "Ball and Chain" was actually recorded in front of a paying audience; the rest of the tracks were studio
recordings.[13] The album had a raw quality, including the sound of a drinking glass breaking and the broken shards being swept
away during the song "Turtle Blues". Cheap Thrills produced very popular hits with "Piece of My Heart" and "Summertime".
Together with the premiere of the documentary film Monterey Pop at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on
December 26, 1968,[50] the album launched Joplin as a star.[51] Cheap Thrills reached number one on the Billboard 200 album
chart eight weeks after its release, remaining for eight (nonconsecutive) weeks.[51] The album was certified gold at release and
sold over a million copies in the first month of its release.[23][29] The lead single from the album, "Piece of My Heart", reached
number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1968.[52]

The band made another East Coast tour during July–August 1968, performing at the Columbia Records convention in Puerto Rico
and the Newport Folk Festival. After returning to San Francisco for two hometown shows at the Palace of Fine Arts Festival on
August 31 and September 1, Joplin announced that she would be leaving Big Brother. On September 14, 1968, culminating a
three-night engagement together at Fillmore West, fans thronged to a concert that Bill Graham publicized as the last official
concert of Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The opening acts on this night were Chicago (then still called
Chicago Transit Authority) and Santana.

Despite Graham's announcement that the Fillmore West gig was Big Brother's last concert with Joplin, the band—with Joplin still
as lead vocalist—toured the U.S. that fall. Reflecting Joplin's crossover appeal, two October 1968 performances at a roller rink in
Alexandria, Virginia, were reviewed by John Segraves of the conservative Washington Evening Star at a time when the
Washington metropolitan area's hard rock scene was in its infancy.[53] An opera buff at the time,[54] he wrote, "Miss Joplin, in her
early 20s, has been for the last year or two the vocalist with Big Brother and the Holding Company, a rock quintet of superior
electric expertise. Shortly she will be merely Janis Joplin, a vocalist singing folk rock on her first album as a single. Whatever she
does and whatever she sings she'll do it well because her vocal talents are boundless. This is the way she came across in a huge,
high-ceilinged roller skating rink without any acoustics but, thankfully a good enough sound system behind her. In a proper room,
I would imagine there would be no adjectives to describe her."[53]

Later that month (October 1968), Big Brother performed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst[55] and at the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.[55] Aside from two 1970 reunions, Joplin's last performance with Big Brother was at a Chet Helms benefit
in San Francisco on December 1, 1968.[13][16]
1969–1970: Solo career
Joplin performs with Tom Jones on
his television show in late 1969
After splitting from Big Brother and the Holding Company, Joplin formed a new
backup group, the Kozmic Blues Band, composed of session musicians like
keyboardist Stephen Ryder and saxophonist Cornelius "Snooky" Flowers, as
well as former Big Brother and the Holding Company guitarist Sam Andrew and
future Full Tilt Boogie Band bassist Brad Campbell. The band was influenced by
the Stax-Volt rhythm and blues (R&B) and soul bands of the 1960s, as
exemplified by Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays.[13][16][23] The Stax-Volt R&B
sound was typified by the use of horns and had a funky, pop-oriented sound in
contrast to many of the psychedelic/hard rock bands of the period.

By early 1969, Joplin was allegedly shooting at least $200 worth of heroin per
day (equivalent to $1300 in 2016 dollars)[22] although efforts were made to keep her clean during the recording of I Got Dem Ol'
Kozmic Blues Again Mama!. Gabriel Mekler, who produced Kozmic Blues, told publicist-turned-biographer Myra Friedman after
Joplin's death that she had lived in his Los Angeles house during the June 1969 recording sessions at his insistence so he could
keep her away from drugs and her drug-using friends.[23]

Joplin's appearances with the Kozmic Blues Band in Europe were released in cinemas, in multiple documentaries. Janis, which
was reviewed by the Washington Post on March 21, 1975,[56] shows Joplin arriving in Frankfurt by plane and waiting inside a
bus next to the Frankfurt venue, while an American female fan who is visiting Germany expresses enthusiasm to the camera (no
security was used in Frankfurt, so by the end of the concert, the stage was so packed with people the band members could not see
each other). Janis also includes interviews with Joplin in Stockholm and from her visit to London, for her gig at Royal Albert
Hall. The London interview was dubbed with a voiceover in the German language for broadcast on German television.

On the episode of The Dick Cavett Show that was telecast in the United States on the night of July 18, 1969, Joplin and her band
performed "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" as well as "To Love Somebody". As Dick Cavett interviewed Joplin, she admitted that
she had a terrible time touring in Europe, claiming that audiences there are very uptight and don't "get down".

Released in September 1969, the Kozmic Blues album was certified gold later
that year but did not match the success of Cheap Thrills.[51] Reviews of the new
group were mixed. However, the album's recording quality and engineering, as
well as the musicianship (including three performances by former Bob
Dylan/Paul Butterfield/Electric Flag guitarist Mike Bloomfield), were
considered superior to her previous releases, and some music critics argued that
the band was working in a much more constructive way to support Joplin's
sensational vocal talents. Joplin wanted a horn section similar to that featured by
the Chicago Transit Authority; her voice had the dynamic qualities and range not Newspaper review of Joplin's 1969
to be overpowered by the brighter horn sound. concert at Vets Memorial Auditorium
in Columbus, Ohio includes the fact
Some music critics, however, including Ralph J. Gleason of the San Francisco that before it started she walked to
Chronicle, were negative. Gleason wrote that the new band was a "drag" and the lobby and watched audience
Joplin should "scrap" her new band and "go right back to being a member of Big members arrive.
Brother ... (if they'll have her)."[13]

Other reviewers, such as reporter Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, generally ignored the band's flaws and devoted entire
articles to celebrating the singer's magic.[57] Bernstein's review said that Joplin "has finally assembled a group of first-rate
musicians with whom she is totally at ease and whose abilities complement the incredible range of her voice."[58]
When Joplin and her back-up band performed at Vets Memorial Auditorium in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday night, May 11, 1969,
Columbus Dispatch reviewer John Huddy wrote:

Frequently suggestive with a series of limited but obvious moves, Miss Joplin wears hip-hugging silk bellbottoms
and alternates between a wail and a teeth-rattling scream. Like Elvis in his pelvis-moving days or Wayne Cochran
with his towering hairdo, Janis is a curiosity as well as a musical attraction. She cultivates a Madame of Rock
image, lounging against an organ, exchanging profanities with bandsmen, cackling coarsely at private jokes, even
taking a belt or two while onstage. She also has something to say in her songs, about the raw and rudimentary
dimensions of sex, love, and life. She gets her point across, splitting a few eardrums in the process. Opening the
Joplin concert were Teegarden and Van Winkle, an organ-drums duo ... Before her concert, Miss Joplin walked
into the lobby and watched customers (sic) arrive. She was not recognized.[59]

Columbia Records released "Kozmic Blues" as a single, which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, and a live
rendition of "Raise Your Hand" was released in Germany and became a top ten hit there. Containing other hits like "Try (Just a
Little Bit Harder)", "To Love Somebody", and "Little Girl Blue", I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! reached number five
on the Billboard 200 soon after its release.[60]

Joplin appeared at Woodstock starting at approximately 2:00 a.m., on Sunday, August 17, 1969. Joplin informed her band that
they would be performing at the concert as if it were just another gig. On Saturday afternoon, when she and the band were flown
by helicopter with the pregnant Joan Baez and Baez's mother from a nearby motel to the festival site and Joplin saw the enormous
crowd, she instantly became extremely nervous and giddy. Upon landing and getting off the helicopter, Joplin was approached by
reporters asking her questions. She referred them to her friend and sometime lover Peggy Caserta as she was too excited to speak.
Initially, Joplin was eager to get on the stage and perform but was repeatedly delayed as bands were contractually obliged to
perform ahead of Joplin. Faced with a ten-hour wait after arriving at the backstage area, Joplin shot heroin and drank
alcohol[16][22] with Caserta, and by the time of reaching the stage, Joplin was "three sheets to the wind".[13] During her
performance, Joplin's voice became slightly hoarse and wheezy, and she struggled to dance.

Joplin pulled through, however, and engaged frequently with the crowd, asking them if they had everything they needed and if
they were staying stoned. The audience cheered for an encore, to which Joplin replied and sang "Ball and Chain". Pete
Townshend, who performed with the Who later in the same morning after Joplin finished, witnessed her performance and said the
following in his 2012 memoir: "She had been amazing at Monterey, but tonight she wasn't at her best, due, probably, to the long
delay, and probably, too, to the amount of booze and heroin she'd consumed while she waited. But even Janis on an off-night was
incredible."[61]

Janis remained at Woodstock for the remainder of the festival. Starting at approximately 3:00 a.m. on Monday, August 18, Joplin
was among many Woodstock performers who stood in a circle behind Crosby, Stills & Nash during their performance, which was
the first time anyone at Woodstock ever had heard the group perform.[62] This information was published by David Crosby in
1988.[62] Later in the morning of August 18, Joplin and Joan Baez sat in Joe Cocker's van and witnessed Hendrix's close-of-show
performance, according to Baez's memoir And a Voice to Sing With (1989).[63]

Still photographs in color show Joplin backstage with Grace Slick the day after Joplin's performance, wherein Joplin appears to
be very happy. Joplin was ultimately unhappy with her performance, however, and blamed Caserta. Her singing was not included
(by her own insistence) in the 1970 documentary film or the soundtrack for Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and
More, although the 25th anniversary director's cut of Woodstock includes her performance of "Work Me, Lord". The documentary
film of the festival that was released to theaters in 1970 includes, on the left side of a split screen, 37 seconds of footage of Joplin
and Caserta walking toward Joplin's dressing room tent.[64]
In addition to Woodstock, Joplin also had problems at Madison Square Garden, in 1969. Biographer Myra Friedman said she
witnessed a duet Joplin sang with Tina Turner during the Rolling Stones concert at the Garden on Thanksgiving Day. Friedman
said Joplin was "so drunk, so stoned, so out of control, that she could have been an institutionalized psychotic rent by mania."[23]
During another Garden concert where she had solo billing on December 19, some observers believed Joplin tried to incite the
audience to riot.[23] For part of this concert she was joined onstage by Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield.

Joplin told rock journalist David Dalton that Garden audiences watched and listened to "every note [she sang] with 'Is she gonna
make it?' in their eyes."[29] In her interview with Dalton she added that she felt most comfortable performing at small, cheap
venues in San Francisco that were associated with the counterculture.

At the time of this June 1970 interview, she had already performed in the Bay Area for what turned out to be the last time. Sam
Andrew, the lead guitarist who had left Big Brother with Joplin in December 1968 to form her back-up band, quit in late summer
1969 and returned to Big Brother. At the end of the year, the Kozmic Blues Band broke up. Their final gig with Joplin was the
one at Madison Square Garden with Winter and Butterfield.[13][29]

In February 1970, Joplin traveled to Brazil, where she stopped her drug and alcohol use.
She was accompanied on vacation there by her friend Linda Gravenites, who had designed
the singer's stage costumes from 1967 to 1969.

In Brazil, Joplin was romanced by a fellow American tourist named David (George)
Niehaus, who was traveling around the world. A Joplin biography written by her sister
Laura said, "David was an upper-middle-class Cincinnati kid who had studied
communications at Notre Dame. ... [and] had joined the Peace Corps after college and
worked in a small village in Turkey. ... He tried law school, but when he met Janis he was
taking time off."[33]

Joplin in 1970 Niehaus and Joplin were photographed by the press at Rio Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.[29]
Gravenites also took color photographs of the two during their Brazilian vacation.
According to Joplin biographer Ellis Amburn, in Gravenites' snapshots they "look like a
carefree, happy, healthy young couple having a tremendously good time."[16]

Rolling Stone magazine interviewed Joplin during an international phone call, quoting her: "I'm going into the jungle with a big
bear of a beatnik named David Niehaus. I finally remembered I don't have to be on stage twelve months a year. I've decided to go
and dig some other jungles for a couple of weeks."[16] Amburn added in 1992, "Janis was trying to kick heroin in Brazil, and one
of the nicest things about David was that he wasn't into drugs."[16]

When Joplin returned to the U.S., she began using heroin again. Her relationship with Niehaus soon ended because he witnessed
her shooting drugs at her new home in Larkspur, California. The relationship was also complicated by her ongoing romantic
relationship with Peggy Caserta, who also was an intravenous addict, and Joplin's refusal to take some time off and travel the
world with him.[16][65]

Around this time, she formed her new band, the Full Tilt Boogie Band.[13][16][23] The band comprised mostly young Canadian
musicians previously associated with Ronnie Hawkins and featured an organ, but no horn section. Joplin took a more active role
in putting together the Full Tilt Boogie Band than she did with her prior group. She was quoted as saying, "It's my band. Finally
it's my band!"[13] The Full Tilt Boogie Band began touring in May 1970. Joplin remained quite happy with her new group, which
received mostly positive feedback from both her fans and the critics.[13]

Prior to beginning a summer tour with Full Tilt Boogie, she performed in a reunion with Big Brother at the Fillmore West, in San
Francisco, on April 4, 1970. Recordings from this concert were included in an in-concert album released posthumously in 1972.
She again appeared with Big Brother on April 12 at Winterland, where she and Big Brother were reported to be in excellent
form.[16] Around this time Joplin began wearing multi-coloured feather boas in her hair. By the time she began touring with Full
Tilt Boogie, Joplin told people she was drug-free, but her drinking increased.[16]

From June 28 to July 4, 1970, Joplin and Full Tilt Boogie joined the all-star Festival Express train tour through Canada,
performing alongside Buddy Guy, the Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Ten Years After, Grateful Dead, Delaney & Bonnie,
Eric Andersen, and Ian & Sylvia.[16] They played concerts in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary.[16][29] Joplin jammed with the
other performers on the train, and her performances on this tour are considered to be among her greatest.

Joplin headlined the festival on all three nights. At the last stop in Calgary, she took to the stage with Jerry Garcia while her band
was tuning up. Film footage shows her telling the audience how great the tour was and she and Garcia presenting the organizers
with a case of tequila. She then burst into a two-hour set, starting with "Tell Mama". Throughout this performance, Joplin
engaged in several banters about her love life. In one, she reminisced about living in a San Francisco apartment and competing
with a female neighbor in flirting with men on the street. She finished the Calgary concert with long versions of "Get It While
You Can" and "Ball and Chain".

Footage of her performance of "Tell Mama" in Calgary became an MTV video in the early 1980s, and the audio from the same
film footage was included on the Farewell Song (1982) album. The audio of other Festival Express performances was included
on Joplin's In Concert (1972) album. Video of the performances was also included on the Festival Express DVD.

These performances of entire songs during the Festival Express concerts in Toronto and Calgary can be purchased, although other
songs remain in vaults and have yet to be released.

In the "Tell Mama" video shown on MTV in the 1980s, Joplin wore a psychedelically colored, loose-fitting costume and feathers
in her hair. This was her standard stage costume in the spring and summer of 1970. She chose the new costumes after her friend
and designer, Linda Gravenites (whom Joplin had praised in Vogue's profile of her in its May 1968 edition), cut ties with Joplin
shortly after their return from Brazil, due largely to Joplin's continued use of heroin.[13][16]

During the Festival Express tour, Joplin was accompanied by Rolling Stone writer David Dalton, who later wrote several articles
and two books on Joplin. She told Dalton:

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything ... It used to make me very
unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for
me. I'm full of emotion and I want a release, and if you're on stage and if it's really working and you've got the
audience with you, it's a oneness you feel.[29]

Among Joplin's last public appearances were two broadcasts of The Dick Cavett Show. In her June 25, 1970 appearance, she
announced that she would attend her ten-year high school class reunion. When asked if she had been popular in school, she
admitted that when in high school, her schoolmates "laughed me out of class, out of town and out of the state"[66] (during the year
she had spent at the University of Texas at Austin, Joplin had been voted "Ugliest Man on Campus" by frat boys[67]). In the
subsequent Cavett Show broadcast, on August 3, 1970, and featuring Gloria Swanson, Joplin discussed her upcoming
performance at the Festival for Peace to be held at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, three days later.

On August 7, 1970, a tombstone—jointly paid for by Joplin and Juanita Green, who as a child had done housework for Bessie
Smith—was erected at Smith's previously unmarked grave. The following day, the Associated Press circulated this news, and the
August 9 edition of The New York Times carried it.[68] The lead paragraph of the AP story said Joplin and Green had "shared the
cost of a stone for the 'Empress of the Blues,'" but, according to publicist/biographer Myra Friedman, the two women never
met.[23] Joplin had been at home in Larkspur, California when she had received a long-distance phone call with an explanation of
the need to finance a gravestone for Bessie Smith, whom Joplin had frequently cited as a musical influence.[23] Joplin
immediately wrote a check and mailed it to the name and address provided by the phone caller.[23]
On August 8, 1970, as the Associated Press circulated the news about Smith's new gravestone, Joplin performed at the Capitol
Theatre (Port Chester, New York). It was there that she first performed "Mercedes Benz", a song (partially inspired by a Michael
McClure poem) that she had written that day in the bar next door to the Capitol Theatre with fellow musician and friend Bob
Neuwirth.[69] According to Myra Friedman's account,[23] Joplin performed two shows at the Capitol Theatre, the first of which
was attended by actors Geraldine Page and her husband Rip Torn,[23] and it was during subsequent free time at a "gin mill" very
close to this concert venue that Joplin and Neuwirth penned the lyrics to the song[23] and she performed it at the second show.[23]

Joplin's last public performance with the Full Tilt Boogie Band took place on August 12, 1970, at the Harvard Stadium in Boston.
The Harvard Crimson gave the performance a positive, front-page review, despite the fact that Full Tilt Boogie had performed
with makeshift amplifiers after their regular sound equipment was stolen in Boston.[23]

Joplin attended her high school reunion on August 14, accompanied by Neuwirth, road manager John Cooke, and sister Laura,
but it was reportedly an unhappy experience for her.[70] Joplin held a press conference in Port Arthur during her reunion visit.
When asked by a reporter if she ever entertained at Thomas Jefferson High School when she was a student there, Joplin replied,
"Only when I walked down the aisles."[13][15] Joplin denigrated Port Arthur and the classmates who had humiliated her a decade
earlier.[13]

During late August, September, and early October 1970, Joplin and her band rehearsed and recorded a new album in Los Angeles
with producer Paul A. Rothchild, best known for his lengthy relationship with the Doors. Although Joplin died before all the
tracks were fully completed, there was enough usable material to compile an LP.

The posthumous Pearl (1971) became the biggest-selling album of her career[51] and featured her biggest hit single, a cover of
Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster's "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson had previously been Joplin's lover in the spring of
1970).[71] The opening track, "Move Over", was written by Joplin, reflecting the way that she felt men treated women in
relationships. Also included was the social commentary of "Mercedes Benz", presented in an a cappella arrangement; the track
on the album features the first and only take that Joplin recorded. A cover of Nick Gravenites's "Buried Alive in the Blues", to
which Joplin had been scheduled to add her vocals on the day she was found dead, was included as an instrumental.

Joplin checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood on August 24, 1970,[72]
near Sunset Sound Recorders,[16] where she began rehearsing and recording her album.
During the sessions, Joplin continued a relationship with Seth Morgan, a 21-year-old UC
Berkeley student, cocaine dealer, and future novelist who had visited her new home in
Larkspur in July and August.[13][16][22] She and Morgan were engaged to be married in
early September,[15] even though he visited Sunset Sound Recorders for just eight of
Joplin's many rehearsals and sessions.[16]

Morgan later told biographer Myra Friedman that, as a non-musician, he had felt excluded
whenever he had visited Sunset Sound Recorders.[23] Instead, he stayed at Joplin's
Larkspur home while she stayed alone at the Landmark,[23] although several times she
visited Larkspur to be with him and to check the progress of renovations she was having
Janis Joplin performing at
done on the house. She told her construction crew to design a carport to be shaped like a
the Newport Folk Festival in
flying saucer, according to biographer Ellis Amburn, the concrete foundation for which Rhode Island in July
was poured the day before she died.[16] 1968[23]

Peggy Caserta claimed in her book, Going Down With Janis (1973), that she and Joplin
had decided mutually in April 1970 to stay away from each other to avoid enabling each other's drug use.[22] Caserta, a former
Delta Air Lines stewardess[22] and owner of one of the first clothing boutiques in the Haight Ashbury,[22] said that by September
1970, she was smuggling cannabis throughout California[22] and had checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel because it attracted
drug users.[22]
For approximately the first two weeks of Joplin's stay at the Landmark, she did not know Caserta was in Los Angeles.[22] Joplin
learned of Caserta's presence at the Landmark from a heroin dealer who made deliveries there.[22] Joplin begged Caserta for
heroin,[22] and when Caserta refused to provide it, Joplin reportedly admonished her by saying, "Don't think if you can get it, I
can't get it."[22] Joplin's publicist Myra Friedman was unaware during Joplin's lifetime that this had happened. Later, while
Friedman was working on her book Buried Alive, she determined that the time frame of the Joplin-Caserta encounter was one
week before Jimi Hendrix's death.[23]

Within a few days, Joplin became a regular customer of the same heroin dealer who had been supplying Caserta.[22]

Joplin's manager Albert Grossman and his assistant/publicist Friedman, had staged an intervention with Joplin the previous
winter while Joplin was in New York.[23] In September 1970, Grossman and Friedman, who worked out of a New York office,
knew Joplin was staying at a Los Angeles hotel, but were unaware it was a haven for drug users and dealers.[23]

Grossman and Friedman knew during Joplin's lifetime that her friend Caserta, whom Friedman met during the New York sessions
for Cheap Thrills[22] and on later occasions, used heroin.[23] During the many long-distance telephone conversations that Joplin
and Friedman had in September 1970 and on October 1, Joplin never mentioned Caserta, and Friedman assumed Caserta had
been out of Joplin's life for a while.[23] Friedman, who had more time than Grossman to monitor the situation, never visited
California.[23] She thought Joplin sounded on the phone like she was less depressed than she had been over the summer.[23]

When Joplin was not at Sunset Sound Recorders, she liked to drive her Porsche over the speed limit "on the winding part of
Sunset Blvd.", according to a statement made by her attorney Robert Gordon in 1995 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
ceremony.[73] Friedman wrote that the only Full Tilt Boogie member who rode as her passenger, Ken Pearson, often hesitated to
join her,[23] though he did on the night she died.[23] He was not interested in experimenting with hard drugs.[23]

On September 26, 1970, Joplin recorded vocals for "Half Moon" and "Cry Baby".[74] Then Full Tilt Boogie recorded the
instrumental track for "Buried Alive in the Blues".[74] The session ended with Joplin, organist Ken Pearson, and drummer Clark
Pierson making a special one-minute recording as a birthday gift to John Lennon.[74] Joplin was among several singers who had
been contacted by Yoko Ono with a request for a taped greeting for Lennon's 30th birthday,[75] on October 9. Joplin, Pearson, and
Pierson chose the Dale Evans composition "Happy Trails" as part of the greeting. Lennon told Dick Cavett on-camera the
following year that Joplin's recorded birthday wishes arrived at his home after her death.[75]

The last recording Joplin completed was on October 1, 1970—"Mercedes Benz". On Saturday, October 3, Joplin visited Sunset
Sound Recorders[16] to listen to the instrumental track for Nick Gravenites's song "Buried Alive in the Blues", which the band
had recorded one week earlier.[74] She and Paul Rothchild agreed she would record the vocal the following day.[29][33]

At some point on Saturday, she learned by telephone, to her dismay, that Seth Morgan had met other women at a Marin County,
California, restaurant, driven them to her home, and was shooting pool with them using her pool table.[23] People at Sunset Sound
Recorders overheard Joplin expressing anger about the state of her relationship with Morgan,[23] as well as joy about the progress
of the sessions.[23]

Joplin and Ken Pearson later left the studio and went out for drinks at the West Hollywood landmark called Barney's Beanery.
After midnight, she drove him and a male fan back to the Landmark.[23] During the car ride, the fan asked Joplin questions
"about her singing style," according to the biography by Myra Friedman,[23] and "she mostly ignored him" so she could converse
with Pearson.[23] As Joplin and Pearson prepared to part in the lobby of the Landmark, she expressed a fear, possibly in jest, that
he and the other Full Tilt Boogie musicians might decide to stop making music with her.[23]

Personal life
Joplin's significant relationships with men included ones with Peter de Blanc,[23][30][31][32][33] Country Joe McDonald (who
wrote the song "Janis" at Joplin's request),[76] David (George) Niehaus,[16][29][33][77] Kris Kristofferson,[23][16] and Seth Morgan
(from July 1970 until her death, at which time they were allegedly engaged).[78][79]

She also had relationships with women. During her first stint in San Francisco in 1963, Joplin met and briefly lived with Jae
Whitaker, an African American woman whom she had met while playing pool at the bar Gino & Carlo in North Beach. Whitaker
broke off their relationship because of Joplin's hard drug use and sexual relationships with other people.[80] Whitaker was first
identified by name in connection with Joplin in 1999, when Alice Echols' biography Scars of Sweet Paradise was published.[13]

Joplin also had an on-again-off-again romantic relationship with Peggy Caserta.[16][81][77] They first met in November 1966
when Big Brother performed at a San Francisco venue called The Matrix. Caserta was one of 15 people in the audience.[22] At
the time, Caserta ran a successful clothing boutique in the Haight Ashbury. Approximately a month after Caserta attended the
concert, Joplin visited her boutique and said she could not afford to buy a pair of jeans that was for sale.[22] Caserta took pity on
her and gave her a pair for free.[22] Their friendship was platonic for more than a year.[22] Before it moved to the next level,
Caserta was in love with Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew, and sometime during the first half of 1968 she traveled from San
Francisco to New York to flirt with him.[22] He did not want a serious relationship with her, and Joplin sympathized with
Caserta's disappointment.[22]

The Woodstock movie includes 37 seconds of Joplin and Caserta walking together before they reached the tent where Joplin
waited for her turn to perform. By the time the festival took place in August 1969, both women were intravenous heroin addicts.

According to Caserta's book Going Down With Janis, Joplin introduced her to Seth Morgan in Joplin's room at the Landmark
Motor Hotel on Tuesday evening, September 29, 1970.[22] Caserta "had seen him around" San Francisco but had not met him
before.[22] All three of them agreed to reunite three nights later, on Friday night, for a ménage à trois in Joplin's room.[22] Caserta
saw Joplin briefly the next day, Wednesday, again in Joplin's room, when Caserta accommodated her new Los Angeles friend
Debbie Nuciforo, age 19,[82] an aspiring hard rock drummer who wanted to meet Joplin.[22] Nuciforo was stoned on heroin at the
time, and the three women's encounter was brief and unpleasant.[22] Caserta suspected that the reason for Joplin's foul mood was
that Morgan had abandoned her earlier that day after having spent less than 24 hours with her.[22]

Caserta did not see nor communicate by phone with Joplin again, although she later claimed she had made several attempts to
reach her by phone at the Landmark Motor Hotel and at Sunset Sound Recorders. Caserta and Seth Morgan lost touch with each
other, and each decided independently to abandon Joplin on Friday night, October 2.[22] Joplin mentioned her disappointment
(over both of her friends' bailing out of their ménage à trois) to her drug dealer on Saturday while he was selling her the dose of
heroin that killed her, as Caserta later learned from the drug dealer.[22][16]

Biographer Myra Friedman commented in her original version of Buried Alive (1973):[83]

Given the near-infinite potentials of infancy, it is really impossible to make generalizations about what lies behind
sexual practices. This, however, is probable: to become clearly homosexual, to make the choice that one honestly
prefers relations with one's own sex, no matter the origins of such preference, requires a certain integration, a
stability of psychic development, a tidiness of personality organization. The ridicule and the humiliation that took
place at that most delicate period in [Joplin's] early teens, her own inability to surmount the obstacles to regular
growth, devastated her a great deal more than most people comprehended. Janis was not heir to an ego so
cohesive as to permit her an identity one way or the other. She was, as [the psychiatric social worker she saw
regularly in Beaumont, Texas in 1965 and 1966] Mr. [Bernard] Giarritano put it [in an interview with Friedman],
"diffused" -- spewing, splattering, splaying all over, without a center to hold. That had as much to do with her
original use of drugs [before she first met Giarritano] as did the critical component of guilt and its multiplicity of
sources above and beyond the contribution made by her relationships with women. Were she so simple as the
lesbians wished her to be or so free as her associates imagined![23]
Kim France reported in The New York Times article, "Nothin' Left to Lose" (May 2, 1999): "Once she became famous, Joplin
cursed like a truck driver, did not believe in wearing undergarments, was rarely seen without her bottle of Southern Comfort and
delighted in playing the role of sexual predator."[84]

On July 11, 1970, Full Tilt Boogie and Big Brother and the Holding Company both performed at the same concert in the San
Diego Sports Arena,[85] which was decades later renamed the Valley View Casino Center. Joplin sang with Full Tilt Boogie and
appeared briefly onstage with Big Brother without singing, according to the next day's review in the San Diego Union. She had a
conversation offstage with her old friend Richard Hundgen, the Grateful Dead's San Francisco-based road manager whom she
had known since 1966, in which she said:

I hear a rumor that somebody in San Francisco is spreading stories that I'm a dyke. You go back there and find out
who it is and tell them that Janis says she's gotten it on with a couple of thousand cats in her life and a few
hundred chicks and see what they can do with that![23]

Death
On Sunday afternoon, October 4, 1970, producer Paul Rothchild became concerned when
Joplin failed to show up at Sunset Sound Recorders for a recording session in which she
was scheduled to provide the vocal track for the instrumental track of the song "Buried
Alive in the Blues". In the evening, Full Tilt Boogie's road manager, John Cooke, drove to
the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood where Joplin was staying. He saw Joplin's
psychedelically painted Porsche 356 C Cabriolet in the parking lot and upon entering
Joplin's room (#105), he found her dead on the floor beside her bed. The official cause of
death was a heroin overdose, possibly compounded by alcohol.[23][86] Cooke believes
Joplin had been given heroin that was much more potent than normal, as several of her
dealer's other customers also overdosed that week.[87] Her death was ruled as
accidental.[88]
Joplin photographed by Jim
Marshall in 1969,[29] one Peggy Caserta and Seth Morgan had both failed to meet Joplin the Friday immediately
year before her death prior to her death, October 2 and Joplin had been expecting both of them to keep her
company that night.[22] According to Caserta, Joplin was saddened that neither of her
friends visited her at the Landmark as they had promised.[16][22] During the 24 hours
Joplin lived after this disappointment, Caserta did not phone her to explain why she had failed to show up.[22] Caserta admitted to
waiting until late Saturday night to dial the Landmark switchboard, only to learn that Joplin had instructed the desk clerk not to
accept any incoming phone calls for her after midnight.[22] Morgan did speak to Joplin via telephone within 24 hours of her death
but it is not known whether he admitted to her that he had broken his promise.[16]

Joplin was cremated at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles, California, and her ashes
were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean.[89][90]

Legacy
Joplin's death in October 1970 at age 27 stunned her fans and shocked the music world, especially when coupled with the death
just 16 days earlier of another rock icon, Jimi Hendrix, also at age 27. (This would later cause some people to attribute
significance to the death of musicians at the age of 27, as celebrated in the notional '27 Club'.) Music historian Tom Moon wrote
that Joplin had "a devastatingly original voice", music columnist Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that Joplin as an artist
was "overpowering and deeply vulnerable", and author Megan Terry said that Joplin was the female version of Elvis Presley in
her ability to captivate an audience.[91]
A book about Joplin by her publicist Myra Friedman, titled Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin (1973),[92] was
excerpted in many newspapers. At the same time, Peggy Caserta's memoir, Going Down With Janis (1974),[93] attracted a lot of
attention, with its provocative title referring to her performing oral sex with Joplin while they were high on heroin, in September
1970. The very first sentence in the book goes into more detail about that particular encounter. Caserta’s language and description
repelled many people at a time when few books or filmed interviews of Joplin or her loved ones were accessible to the public.
Peggy Caserta was described as “halfway between a groupie and a friend” on an interview that writer Ellis Auburn did with
Joplin's bandmate Sam Andrew circa 1990 and published in 1992.[16] Soon after the 1973 publication of Going Down With Janis,
Joplin’s friends learned that graphic descriptions of sexual acts and intravenous drug use were not the only portions of the book
that would haunt them.

According to a statement in the early 1990s by a close friend of Caserta and Joplin's, Caserta's book angered the Los Angeles
heroin dealer she described in detail, including the make and model of his car, for her book. According to Ellis Amburn, in 1973 a
"carful of dope dealers" visited a Los Angeles lesbian bar Caserta had been frequenting since Joplin was alive.[16] Amburn
quoted Caserta's friend Kim Chappell, who was in the alley behind the bar: "I was stabbed because, when Peggy's book came out,
her dealer, the same one who'd given Janis her last fix, didn't like it that he was referred to and was out to get Peggy. He couldn't
find her, so he went for her lover. When they realized who I was, they felt that my death would also hit Peggy, and so they
stabbed me."[16] Despite being "stabbed three times in the chest, puncturing both lungs," Chappell eventually recovered.[16]

According to biographers, Caserta was one of many friends of Joplin's who did not become clean and sober until a very long time
after the singer's death, while others died from overdoses.[13][23] Although (Big Brother guitarist) James Gurley's wife, who was
Joplin's close friend, died from a heroin overdose in 1969, he did not become clean and sober until 1984.[16] Caserta survived "a
near-fatal OD in December 1995," wrote Alice Echols.[13] On January 13, 2000, Caserta appeared on-camera for a segment about
Joplin on 20/20.[94]

Joplin, along with Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, opened opportunities in the rock music business for future female
singers.[91]

Joplin's body art, with a wristlet and a small heart on her left breast, by the San Francisco tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle, was an early
moment in the popular culture's acceptance of tattoos as art.[95] Another trademark was her flamboyant hair styles, which often
included colored streaks, and accessories such as scarves, beads, and feathers. When in New York City, Joplin, often in the
company of actor Michael J. Pollard, frequented Limbo on St. Mark's Place. Joplin, well known to the boutique's employees,
made a practice of putting aside vintage and other one-of-a-kind garments she favored on stage and off.

The Mamas & the Papas' song "Pearl" (1971), from their People Like Us album, was a tribute. Likewise, Leonard Cohen's song,
"Chelsea Hotel #2" (1974), is about Joplin,[96] and lyricist Robert Hunter has commented that Jerry Garcia's "Birdsong" from his
first solo album, Garcia (1972), is about Joplin and the end of her suffering through death.[97][98] Mimi Farina's composition, "In
the Quiet Morning", most famously covered by Joan Baez on her Come from the Shadows (1972) album, was a tribute to
Joplin.[99] Another song by Baez, "Children of the Eighties," mentioned Joplin. A Serge Gainsbourg-penned French language
song by English singer Jane Birkin, "Ex fan des sixties" (1978), references Joplin alongside other disappeared "idols" such as
Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Marc Bolan. When Joplin was alive, Country Joe McDonald released a song called "Janis" on his
band's album I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die (1967).

At the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival, Nina Simone, whom Joplin admired greatly, commented on Joplin and referred to the
documentary Janis (1975) that evidently was screened at the festival:

You know I made thirty-five albums, they bootlegged seventy. Oh, everybody took a chunk of me. And yesterday
I went to see Janis Joplin's film here. And what distressed me the most, and I started to write a song about it, but I
decided you weren't worthy. Because I figured that most of you are here for the festival. Anyway the point is it
 pained me to see how hard she worked. Because she got hooked into a thing, and it wasn't on drugs. She got
hooked into a feeling and she played to corpses.

The film The Rose (1979) is loosely based on Joplin's life. Originally planned to be titled Pearl—Joplin's nickname and the title
of her last album—the film was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story.[100][101]
Bette Midler earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.

In 1988, on what would have been Joplin's 45th birthday, the Janis Joplin Memorial, with an original gold, multi-image sculpture
of Joplin by Douglas Clark, was dedicated during a ceremony in Port Arthur, Texas.[102]

In 1992, the first major biography of Joplin in two decades, Love, Janis, authored by her younger sister, Laura Joplin, was
published. In an interview, Laura stated that Joplin enjoyed being on the Dick Cavett Show, that Joplin while growing up in Texas
had difficulties with some people at school, but not the entire school, and that Joplin was really enthusiastic after performing at
Woodstock in 1969.[103]

In 1995, Joplin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2005, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award. In November 2009, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum honored her as part of its annual American Music
Masters Series;[104] among the artifacts at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum exhibition are Joplin's scarf and necklaces,
her 1965 Porsche 356 Cabriolet with psychedelically designed painting, and a sheet of LSD blotting paper designed by Robert
Crumb, designer of the Cheap Thrills cover.[105] Also in 2009, Joplin was the honoree at the Rock Hall's American Music Master
concert and lecture series.[106]

In the late 1990s, the musical play Love, Janis was created and directed by Randal Myler, with input from Janis' younger sister
Laura and Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew, with an aim to take it to Off Broadway. Opening in the summer of 2001 and
scheduled for only a few weeks of performances, the show won acclaim, packed houses, and was held over several times.

In 2013, Washington's Arena Stage featured a production of A Night with Janis Joplin, starring Mary Bridget Davies. In it, Joplin
puts on a concert for the audience, while telling stories of her past inspirations including Odetta, Aretha Franklin, and others. It
went on tour in 2016.[107]

On November 4, 2013, Joplin was awarded with the 2,510th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the
music industry. Her star is located at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of Musicians Institute.[108][109]

On August 8, 2014, the U.S. Postal Service revealed a commemorative stamp honoring Janis Joplin, as part of its Music Icons
Forever Stamp series during a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the Outside Lands Music Festival at Golden Gate Park.[110]

On December 15, 2015, Amy J. Berg released her biographical documentary film, Janis: Little Girl Blue, narrated by Cat Power.
It was a New York Times Critics' Pick.[111] Among the memorabilia she left behind is a Gibson Hummingbird guitar.[112]

Influence
Joplin had a profound influence on many singers. For example, Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine spoke of Joplin's
impact, in an interview for Why Music Matters that appeared in a commercial against piracy:

I learnt about Janis from an anthology of female blues singers. Janis was a fascinating character who bridged the
gap between psychedelic blues and soul scenes. She was so vulnerable, self-conscious and full of suffering. She
tore herself apart yet on stage she was totally different. She was so unrestrained, so free, so raw and she wasn't
afraid to wail. Her connection with the audience was really important. It seems to me the suffering and intensity
of her performance go hand in hand. There was always a sense of longing, of searching for something. I think she
really sums up the idea that soul is about putting your pain into something beautiful.[113]
Stevie Nicks considers Joplin one of her idols, and has said:

You could say that being yelled at by Janis Joplin was one of the great honors of my life. Early in my career,
Lindsey Buckingham and I were in a band called Fritz. There were two gigs we played in San Francisco that
changed everything for me - One was opening up for Jimi Hendrix, who was completely magical. The other was
the time that we opened up for Janis at the San Jose Fairgrounds, around 1970.

It was a hot summer day, and things didn't start off well because the entire show was running late. That meant our
set was running over. We were onstage and going over pretty well, when I turned and saw a furious Janis Joplin
on the side of the stage, yelling at us. She was screaming something like, "What the fuck are you assholes doing?
Get the hell off of my stage." Actually, she might have even been a little cruder than that — it was hard to hear.

But then Janis got up on that stage with her band, and this woman who was screaming at me only moments before
suddenly became my new hero. Janis Joplin was not what anyone would call a great beauty, but she became
beautiful because she made such a powerful and deep emotional connection with the audience. I didn't mind the
feathers and the bell-bottom pants either. Janis didn't dress like anyone else, and she definitely didn't sing like
anyone else.

Janis put herself out there completely, and her voice was not only strong and soulful, it was painfully and
beautifully real. She sang in the great tradition of the rhythm & blues singers that were her heroes, but she brought
her own dangerous, sexy rock & roll edge to every single song. She really gave you a piece of her heart. And that
inspired me to find my own voice and my own style.[114]

Pink said about Joplin: "She was so inspiring by singing blues music when it wasn't culturally acceptable for white women, and
she wore her heart on her sleeve. She was so witty and charming and intelligent, but she also battled an ugly-duckling syndrome.
I would love to play her in a movie." [115] In a tribute performance on her Try This Tour, Pink called Joplin "a woman who
inspired me when everyone else ... didn't!"[116]

Discography
Janis Joplin recorded four albums in her four-year career.[81] The first two albums were recorded with and credited to Big Brother
and the Holding Company; the later two were recorded with different backing bands and released as solo albums.[117] Previously
unreleased studio and live material, including early performances as well as Joplin's greatest hits, have been released on several
posthumous compilations.[118]

Big Brother and the Holding Company (1967)

Cheap Thrills (1968)
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
Pearl (1971)
Some of Joplin's live concerts with Big Brother were professionally recorded and have been released on albums like Live at
Winterland '68 and Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968.

Full discography

Big Brother and the Holding Company

 Release
Title Label Notes
date
Big Brother and the Mainstream Records / Re-released 1967 by Columbia with two
1967
Holding Company Columbia extra tracks
2x Multi-Platinum Recording Industry
Cheap Thrills 1968 Columbia
Association of America
Live at Winterland '68 1998 Columbia Legacy Posthumous release of live material
Live at the Carousel
2012 Legacy Recordings Posthumous release of live material
Ballroom 1968

Kozmic Blues Band

Release
Title Label Notes
date
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again
1969 Columbia Platinum RIAA
Mama!
Legacy Posthumous release of live
The Woodstock Experience 2009
Recordings material

Full Tilt Boogie Band

Title Release date Label Notes

Pearl 1971 Columbia posthumous, 4x Multi-Platinum RIAA

Big Brother & the Holding Company / Full Tilt Boogie

Title Release date Label Notes

In Concert 1972 Legacy CK65786 Posthumous release of live material

Later collections
 Release
Title Label Notes Certifications
date

Janis Joplin's ASIN B00000K2W1, 8x Multi-Platinum US: 8x

1973 Columbia
Greatest Hits RIAA Platinum[119]

Janis 1975 CBS 2 discs, Gold RIAA

Wicked Woman 1976 Memory Records 1970 Harvard Stadium recording
Anthology 1980 CBS 2 discs; Europe only
Columbia
Farewell Song 1982 ASIN: B000W44S8E
Records
Cheaper Thrills 1984 Fan Club ASIN: B000LYA9X8

Janis 1993 Columbia Legacy 3 discs – ASIN: B00000286P US:

Gold[119]

18 Essential US: 2x
1995 Columbia Legacy ASIN: B000002B1A, Gold RIAA
Songs Platinum[119]

This Is Janis US:

1995 Produced by James Gurley
Joplin Gold[119]

Live at
Woodstock: 1999
August 19, 1969
5 Discs (the 4 albums plus disc of
Box of Pearls 1999 Sony Legacy
rarities) – ASIN: B0009YNSK6

Super Hits 2000 Sony ASIN: B00004T1E6 US:

Gold[119]

Love, Janis 2001 Columbia Musical soundtrack

Essential Janis
2003 Sony ASIN: B00007MB6Y
Joplin
3 discs, ASIN: B000BM6ATW; the three
The Collection 2004 Columbia Legacy studio albums released 1968–1971 plus
bonus tracks
Very Best of Janis
2007 Columbia ASIN: B000026A35; Europe only
Joplin
The Lost Tapes 2008 Airline 2-disc set
Move Over! 2011 Columbia/Legacy Record Store Day release
Blow All My Blues
2012 9-disc set
Away
The Pearl
2012 Columbia 2-disc set
Sessions

Billboard chart

Albums
(As member of Big Brother & The Holding Company)

Year Album US Top 200 US R&B Certiication

1967 Big Brother and the Holding Company 60 28

1968 Cheap Thrills 1 7 US: 2x Platinum[119]

(As solo artist)

Year Album US Top 200 US R&B Certification

1969 I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! 5 23 US: Platinum[119]

1971 Pearl 1 13 US: 4x Platinum[119]

1972 Joplin in Concert 4 — US: Gold[119]

1973 Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits 37 — US: 8x Platinum[119]

1975 Janis 54 —
1982 Farewell Song 104 —

2000 Super Hits 113 — US: Gold[119]

Singles discography
(As member of Big Brother & The Holding Company)

Year Single (A-side, B-side) US Hot 100 Album

"All Is Loneliness"
1966 -
b/w "Blindman"

"Down on Me"
43
b/w "Call on Me"
Big Brother & The Holding Company
"Bye, Bye Baby"
1967 -
b/w "Intruder"

"Women Is Losers"
-
b/w "Light Is Faster Than Sound"

"Coo Coo"
84 Non-album tracks
b/w "The Last Time"
1968
"Piece of My Heart"
12 Cheap Thrills
b/w "Turtle Blues"

(As solo artist)

Year Single (A-side, B-side) US Hot 100 Album
"Kozmic Blues"
1969 41
b/w "Little Girl Blue"

"Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)"

- I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
b/w "One Good Man"
1970
"Maybe"
-
b/w "Work Me, Lord"

"Me and Bobby McGee"

1
b/w "Half Moon"

"Cry Baby"
1971 42 Pearl
b/w "Mercedes Benz"

"Get It While You Can"

78
b/w "Move Over"

"Down on Me"
1972 91 Joplin In Concert
b/w "Bye, Bye Baby"

Filmography
Monterey Pop (1968)
Petulia (1968)
Janis Joplin Live in Frankfurt (1969)
Janis (1974)
Janis: The Way She Was (1974)
Comin' Home (1988)
Woodstock - The Lost Performances (1991)
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director's Cut) (1994)
Festival Express (2003)
Nine Hundred Nights (2004)
The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons (2005) Shout
Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock (2005)
This is Tom Jones (2007) 1969 appearance on TV show
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director's Cut) 40th Anniversary Edition (2009)
Janis Joplin with Big Brother: Ball and Chain (DVD) Charly (2009)
Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)

Samples

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Further reading
Archer, Dave (painter). "Janis Joplin" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120620010210/http://www.davearcher.com/
Joplin.html). DaveArcher.com. Archived from the original (http://www.davearcher.com/Joplin.html) on June 20,
2012. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
"Janis Joplin: How She Became a Music Icon" (http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/janis-joplin-how-she-be
came-a-music-icon.html/?a=viewall). cheatsheet.com.
Mann, Kyle K. (July 3, 2015). "Wild Ride with Janis" (http://gonzotoday.com/2015/07/03/wild-ride-with-janis/).
gonzotoday.com. - an encounter with Janis Joplin at the wheel

External links
Official website (https://janisjoplin.com/)
Janis Joplin (https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/janis-joplin) on Grammy Awards
Janis Joplin (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/555) at Find a Grave

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