Women Is Losers (Live from Avalon Ballroom).The songs I selected tell a story of Janis’ recognition of the inequality between men and women, and her subsequent action after recognizing that fact. Since then, it has also been covered by Faith Hill (1993), Shaggy (1997), Melissa Etheridge/Joss Stone (2005), and Beverley Knight (2006). Without Janis Joplin, we don’t have Joan Jett, we don’t have Joss Stone, we don’t have P!nk.Īnd it’s hard, I’d imagine, in a moment where you are trailblazing to have the wherewithal to know that you’re trailblazing.
#JOSS STONE JANIS JOPLIN PIECE OF MY HEART PROFESSIONAL#
This three-paragraph simplification of her biography does no justice to the amount of personal and professional turmoil Janis faced on her rise to the top.Ī story that sounds as old as time, Janis was one of the first women to do this in rock n’ roll. Janis got her proverbial start singing for Big Brother and Holding Company, and went from an skeptically recruited vocalist to the band’s leader and reason for fame. She wove her way from New Orleans to Austin to San Francisco, eventually settling there and becoming a founding member of the burgeoning Haight-Ashbury counterculture scene. The daughter of a religious mother and an atheist father, her path in life represents the dichotomy of her parents views. Janis Joplin is from Port Arthur, Texas, a small industrial town right between New Orleans and Austin. For me, Janis Joplin started as a way to show off at karaoke, but the more I learned about her, the more obsessed I became.
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