Janis Joplin News

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:52 p.m. Vote 2 Votes Plum-colored locks, destroyed denim, leather arm cuffs and a raspy, Janis Joplin-like vocal range established Season 8 "American Idol" contestant and fourth-place runner-up Allison Iraheta as the show's resident feisty rock 'n' roll chick.

Allison Iraheta has come a long way since her awkward first interview with Ryan Seacrest.

Vocals - Janis Joplin I want the band to be fronted by a woman and Janis was one of the great female blues singers.

Musicians who played with her or were influenced by her took the State Theater stage in a tribute to rock-blues singer Janis Joplin Saturday night.

Indianapolis native Karen Irwin grew up with a love of musical theater and a voice unsuited for it.

Songstress Lucinda Williams has debuted a new song written in honour of Janis Joplin at a concert called Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin last night.

Guy Clark, who plays the Cactus Cafe on Nov. 20 , will play Saturday at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's " Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin ," part of the hall's American Music Masters series.

Today the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concludes their 14th Annual American Masters Series with a concert tribute to this year's spotlight aritist Janis Joplin.

Janis Joplin has an indelible image as a swaggering, boozing rock 'n' roll mama whose blues-based music was a raw outpouring of her angst.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating the brief, electrifying career of Janis Joplin with a week of events building up to a tribute concert.

Janis Joplin, circa 1969. "Her impact on artists who are still on the scene today, her skill as a vocalist and her deep knowledge and use of roots music put her at the forefront," says Lauren Onkey, the Rock Hall's vice president of education and public programs.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University will celebrate Janis Joplin--one of rock and roll's most passionate and influential artists--during the 14th annual American Music MastersA series Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin November 9-14. Events will be ...

Lucinda Williams, seen here performing at the 2003 Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tenn., is headed to Cleveland for an American Music Masters salute to Janis Joplin.

ATTENION, CHEAP THRILL SEEKERS: Big Brother and the Holding Company has found a new following.

This was the autumn week in 1970 that Texas born singer Janis Joplin was found dead in her Hollywood apartment.

I'd been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when word spread of Janis Joplin's departure from Big Brother & the Holding Company.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. Janis Joplin was born on January 19th, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas.

An Interview with Author David Comfort on The Rock & Roll Book Of The Dead : Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Presley, Lennon, Cobain, and Garcia An Interview With Author David Comfort on The Rock & Roll Book Of The Dead Mike Ragogna : Since your new book discusses the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Kurt ...

1 excerpted from Jon Hammond's interview with founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin on HammondCast KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM San Francisco CA.

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