Music journalist Holly George-Warren, author of the new biography, "Janis: Her Life and Music" (published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS), offers "CBS Sunday Morning" a roster of favorite ...

Joplin gave the world many classic songs. Among them are “Kozmic Blues,” “Down On Me,” “Cry Baby,” and “Get It While You Can.” However, only one of these songs became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...

The first show singer and actress Dorian Rush created for herself was a musical tribute to Janis Joplin. It ran for more than two years at the Warehouse District cabaret Le Chat Noir, and it led Rush ...

Any list tabulating the greatest singers of all-time is null and void without the inclusion of Janis Joplin somewhere near the top. The singular power and titanic force she could bring to a song was ...

2 Video: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finale Performances January 19-20 at Boch Center Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, Boston, MA; Box Office 866-348-9738 or www.bochcenter.org Janis Joplin ...

Nearly four decades after her death in 1970, this countercultural trailblazer is the toast of this year's American Music Masters series, presented by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case ...

If sandpaper and soul met a rose and birthed a child, that child would probably sound something like Janis Joplin. Joplin sang from the soul and with a voice hewn as if from sandpaper. And she lived a ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Nick Gravenites, the blues singer and guitarist for The Electric Flag and songwriter for Janis Joplin, has died, his family announced. He was 85. “I regret to inform all of you ...

ALBANY >> Albany has another concert venue this summer. “A Night with Janis Joplin,” which plays at Capital Repertory Theatre through August 7, is more a concert than it is a theatrical production. It ...

It’s been nearly half a century since her tragic death at 27 from an accidental heroin overdose, but Janis Joplin’s life and music are still hugely resonant. In her landmark new biography, Janis, ...