Get It While You Can: Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin giving her all in a 1970 performance on the Dick Cavett Show, a few months before her death.

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Little Girl Blue: Janis Joplin

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Monday morning, a blues.

When an artist has so much raw talent sometimes the skill and hard work are overlooked. Recently I watched the American Masters documentary about Janis Joplin and it really brought home just how intentional her work was. She knew exactly what she was doing and her idols were Nina Simone and the other great blues singers.

Her version of the great Rodgers and Hart song takes it into a different stratosphere.

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