Janis Joplin

Every performance that Janis gives was pure raw emotion. Her hard drinking and partying lifestyle actually disguised a shy and vulnerable side to her personality, as she was somewhat of an outcast and socially awkward as a child growing up in the small Texas town of Port Arthur. She immersed herself in blues and folk music as a teen and left for San Francisco in 1963. There, she eventually joined the struggling local acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1966, and as her addition brought them more attention, it was their landmark performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 that brought them fame. Her tenure with the band was a short-lived, but is highlighted by their second album Cheap Thrills, which charted to number one in 1968 and is regarded as a classic recording from the psychedelic era of the 1960s. Janis went solo shortly thereafter and recorded another two commercially successful albums but died of a heroin overdose on Oct 4, 1970, just before the release of Pearl. Posthumously, the single Me and Bobby McGee went to number one. This clip is Janis’ amazing performance of Ball and Chain at Monterey.

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