It's not going out on too thin of a limb to say that Big Brother and the Holding Company's Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is for the hardest of hardcore Janis Joplin fans only. The concert album ...

Though she passed away in 1970, Janis Joplin’s voice is still raging into the horizon. Growling and angelic, the Port Arthur, Texas-born singer’s style and range were unparalleled in her time and ...

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 ...

In 1966 a little-known singer out of Texas named Janis Joplin joined forces with a successful psychedelic-rock group from San Francisco. Their 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival left ...

When Janis Joplin purchased a 1965 Porsche 356c Cabriolet in 1968, it was a slightly worn, plain white paint job. It didn’t stay that way for long, instead becoming the blank canvas from which Joplin ...

Fifty years ago, Janis Joplin was three months gone, but her status as an ageless popular music icon was just beginning with the release of “Pearl.” The album sounds bracing even a half-century later, ...

Before Janis Joplin joined Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1966, they were a sloppy and barely competent boogie-blues band dabbling in hippie aesthetics. Not much changed once Joplin was on ...