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    Janis Joplin
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    Biography

    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. First rising to stardom as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother & the Holding Company, she left the group in the late '60s for a brief and uneven (though commercially ...more
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    Clips

  • Mercedes Benz
  • Me and Bobby McGee
  • Get It While You Can
  • Cry Baby
  • Kozmic Blues
  • Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
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    Web Links

  • Janis Joplin @ contactmusic
  • Harry's Blues Lyrics Online: Janis Joplin page
  • Harry's Blues Online: Janis Joplin page
  • Janis Joplin World Wide Web Site
  • Janis Joplin at The Music Box
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