Janis Joplin Lyrics
Janis Joplin (19 January 1943 - 4 October 1970) was an American singer-songwriter and music arranger. Her screaming, soulful voice is in many ways considered a personification of the Flower Power Era (along with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon, Grace Slick and many others). She came to symbolize energy of the psychedelic, Haight-Ashbury, love beads, love ins, free love, flower children, black light posters and incense, expansion of consciousness, spiritualism soaked in the unusual drug idealism of the late 1960s. It was a time of bright hope and optimism and the shedding of many social-psychological-sexual traditions that went sour.
Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas. As a teenager, Joplin was a social outcast in her school, during which time she befriended other so-called outcasts, one of which had albums by African-American artists such as Bessie Smith, Odetta, and Memphis Minnie, all of whom Joplin later credited for inspiring her to become a singer-songwriter herself. Janis debuted...
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