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 ...

Janis Joplin was one of the great figures of American rock’n’roll – a wild performer with an incredible voice, whose life was ...

ALBANY >> Albany has another concert venue this summer. “A Night with Janis Joplin,” which plays at Capital Repertory Theatre through August 7, is more a concert than it is a theatrical production. It ...

Holly George-Warren’s “Janis: Her Life and Music” teeters between tragedy and triumph even before singer Janis Joplin injects a lethal dose of heroin five times more pure than that to which she was ...

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I would imagine that it's a pretty rare thing to be able to bring down a house 43 years after your death. But for Janis Joplin, it's no big deal. She definitely brought down the house, rafters and all ...

Today marks what would have been the 73rd birthday of legendary Texas-born rocker Janis Joplin. I like to imagine the possibilities of a take-no-b.s., 70-something Janis ranting on Twitter, dropping ...

The far-flung performers didn't have much in common, beyond a debt of gratitude owed to a blues-belting rocker who died in 1970. In return, each of them left a piece of his or her heart onstage during ...

Janis Joplin's siblings reflect on growing up with a budding music legend, and why they've decided to share her personal archives in a revealing and enlightening new book The notion of overnight rock ...

In 1969, Newsweek bestowed this honorific on Janis Joplin: "The first female superstar of rock music." It's also a claim that Holly George-Warren sets out to prove in Janis, her new biography of the ...

Mary Davies stars in “A Night With Janis Joplin” Oct. 5 at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan. One Halloween, Mary Davies dressed up like Janis Joplin. Her friends thought she was Elton John. “I’ve known ...