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Janis Joplin Wire

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  1. Janis Joplin - Ball and Chain, live in Germany 69Read the original story w/Photo

    Sunday | Freerepublic.com

    Big Brother was better, imho. Anyway, did you "chick" on the ad before you left the site? 01/03/2010 5:18:23 PM PST by the invisib1e hand To: navysealdad Those were the days............makes me want to sit in a field of wild flowers, drinking Boone's Farm and .......... well I'll leave it at that.

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    Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Big Brother

  2. YouTube has the darndest things

    Sunday Jan 3 | Linkmeister

    ... a list of performers who've sung it: UK pop group the Springfields had a 1962 hit. An early 1960s recording by Janis Joplin is on the 1975 Janis Joplin compilation album Janis. The Cowsills recorded the song on their 1970 studio album IIxII. It ...

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    Related Topix: Classic-Rock, The Cowsills, Pop/Rock, The Partridge Family, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Grateful Dead

  3. James Gurley, guitarist with Big Brother, at 69Read the original story w/Photo

    Saturday Jan 2 | North Jersey Media Group

    LOS ANGELES a ' James Gurley, a virtuoso guitarist with Big Brother & the Holding Company, the psychedelic rock band that launched Janis Joplin to stardom, died Dec.

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  4. Motorcycle Highway Songs - Music

    Thursday Dec 31 | Hot Rod's Bike Works RSS Feed

    ... Orleans, and Chicago, Austin inherited part of the great blues migration out of the delta. How else to explain Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughan? So where does James McMurtry fit? He's one part Jimmy Buffett (if Jimmy had continued to make ...

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    Related Topix: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Blues, Pop/Rock, Progressive-Rock, Yes, Traffic

  5. Me And Bobby Mcge... - Janis Jop...Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 30 | Q95.com

    The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery.

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    Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Big Brother & the Holding Company

  6. Big Brother's James Gurley, R.I.P.Read the original story w/Photo

    Tuesday Dec 29 | About.com

    ... jams that characterized the psychedelic era. At their manager's insistence, the band added vocalist Janis Joplin to the mix in mid-1966, and they quickly found a degree of fame, if not fortune. The band released a self-titled album on the small jazz ...

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  7. The musicals we loved to hate have changed theater foreverRead the original story

    Monday Dec 28 | Denver Post

    ... ("Movin' Out"). But soon popsicals came flying out, exploiting songs by the Beach Boys ("Good Vibrations"), Janis Joplin' ("Love, Janis"); the Bee Gees ("Saturday Night Fever") Queen ("We Will Rock You") Bob Dylan ("The Times, They Are A-Changin") ...

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    Related Topix: Musical Theater, Denver, CO, Entertainment

  8. Me And Bobby Mcge... - Janis Jop...Read the original story

    Sunday Dec 27 | 96.1 The Rocket

    The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery.

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    Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Big Brother & the Holding Company

  9. Magnavox memoriesRead the original story

    Saturday Dec 26 | HeraldTribune.com

    ... is trying to find me. I wait for delivery each day until three. So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV? When Janis Joplin first sang that verse from her song, "Mercedes Benz," nearly 40 years ago, getting a color television set was a very big deal. ...

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    Related Topix: TV, Pop/Rock, Albemarle, NC

  10. Janis Joplin Guitarist James Gurley Dead At 69Read the original story

    Friday Dec 25 | Undercover

    James Gurley, the guitarist for Janis Joplin`s band Big Brother and the Holding Company, has died in California at the age of 69.

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  11. L'Oreal heiress refuses testsRead the original story

    Sep 17, 2009 | News24.com

    ... to be carried out before March 10. - AP Read more on: liliane bettencourt Other Stories in Entertainment... Janis Joplin guitarist dies James Gurley, the brilliant lead guitarist for Big Brother and the Holding Company, the psychedelic rock band ...

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    Related Topix: Liliane Bettencourt, Pop/Rock, Entertainment

  12. Janis Joplin guitarist diesRead the original story

    May 8, 2009 | News24.com

    James Gurley, the brilliant lead guitarist for Big Brother and the Holding Company, the psychedelic rock band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died in California at age 69.

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    Related Topix: Obituaries, Entertainment

  13. Obituary: Jame Gurley/Big Brother guitarist linked to JoplinRead the original story

    Friday Dec 25 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    James Gurley, a virtuosic guitarist with Big Brother & the Holding Company, the psychedelic rock band that launched Janis Joplin to stardom, died Sunday, two days before his 70th birthday.

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  14. Deaths: James Gurley, Big Brother guitarist, 69Read the original story

    Thursday Dec 24 | MiamiHerald.com - Miami & Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Dolphins & More

    James Gurley, a virtuosic guitarist with Big Brother & the Holding Company, the psychedelic rock band that launched Janis Joplin to stardom, died Sunday, two days before his 70th birthday.

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  15. Guitarist for Janis Joplina s Big Brother band dies

    Thursday Dec 24 | Long Island Press

    James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock's multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died of a heart attack.

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    Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, California

  16. Big Brother and the Holding Company's guitarist dies at age 69Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Examiner.com

    ... helped set the tone of the San Francisco scene in the Sixties, as well as launching the career of their singer, Janis Joplin. James Gurley passed away Sunday of a heart attack at his home in Palm Desert, California. He would have been 70 years old ...

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    Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Palm Desert, CA

  17. Dying Young and Famous

    Tuesday Dec 22 | Associated Content

    ... young--well over a 100 years after Emerson wrote it. I actually showed this poem to a friend of mine, who is a Janis Joplin fan, on the anniversary of Janis' death this past October. The last verse of the poem made her cry: Go then, sad youth, and ...

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    Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Family, Kids

  18. CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Blues Legend Nick Gravenites "Bluestar" to See First CD Release

    Tuesday Dec 15 | All About Jazz

    Much sought after out-of-print solo LP by San Francisco/Chicago guitar legend Nick 'The Greek" Gravenites, best known for his work with Janis Joplin, The Butterfield Blues Band, Big Brother & Holding Company and Quicksilver, gets its first CD release.

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    Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Blues, The Blues Band, Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush

  19. This Ain't Your Dad's Sid and Nancy: Film Maverick Abel...

    Thursday Dec 10 | LA Weekly

    ... others about their experiences at the iconic hotel, and he has also included archival footage of legends like Janis Joplin, Sid Vicious (two of his undead muses for the project), William S. Burroughs and Quentin Crisp. WCS : When did you first ...

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    Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Ms. 45, Beat, Courtney Love, Pop/Rock, New York

  20. Some December Notes From the Secret History Files Secret History by Jack NeelyRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 9 | Metropulse.com

    When I wrote about Janis Joplin performing at the University of Tennessee's Stokely Athletics Center 40 years ago, the fact that she'd ever played in Knoxville was fairly recent news to me.

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    Related Topix: Ice Skating, Winter Sports