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Remembering Janis
On this day 37 years ago, Janis Jopin died of a drug overdose at the age of 27.
Janis is the greatest female rock singer of all time. She was wasn’t the best looking and she didn’t have the best band in the world, but she had a voice that was unique, powerful and filled with emotion.
She took the blues and added her own raspy, supercharged emotional delivery and covered it with assertiveness, sexually and raunchy filth and but it into her electrifying on-stage presence to create an unstoppable presence.
Although her life was a roller coaster of drug addiction, alcoholism, and abusive relationships, she didn’t let that effect her career. She gave you power and emotion with every note and as her career went on she matured as a performer.
Many people have tried to emulate her, but we have never had anybody that could handle the blues, soul, and folk-rock the way she could.
Here are some of her best performances.
Cry Baby
Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
Ball & Chain
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Could you imagine Joplin lip-synching at the MTV Video Awards??? Could you imagine her even tolerating the video generation and all of its phoniness??
Janis is what you get if you crossed Bjork with Edie Brickell, a tiger, and a tornado. She had no pretentions - a natural woman with a big, bluesy voice.
Hilarious side note: Rolling Stone, that holy shrine of all things rock and roll, list her at #46 of the 50 greatest artists of all time.
Probably to make room for Jack White.
Who’s Janis Joplin?
@ KC - Die.
I hate you KC.