80 years ago today (1/19/43) the late Janis Joplin came into the world. Joplin had a 1971 U.S No.1 single with ‘Me And Bobby McGee’ and the 1971 U.S. No.1 album Pearl and has forever been linked as one of rock’s greatest voices with a raspy howling vibrato that most all other female rock vocalists are compared to. Joplin died on October 4th 1970 after an accidental heroin overdose. In her honor, let’s watch the soul clinic of “Ball and Chain” live from Monterey in 1967…
