They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas." Her earliest artistic interests were painting and poetry, but those were quickly abandoned when a friend introduced her to jazz at 17 and she sent away for some Leadbelly and Odetta records. To Rolling Stone she elaborated: "I was always outrageous.
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You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different, you're full of things and you don't know what it's about." "I was a sensitive child," she revealed in David Dalton's biography, Janis. Janis Joplin was born January 19, 1943, in the conservative oil refinery town of Port Arthur, Texas. 30, 1971, was the #1 album in America for nine weeks, and spent a total of 42 weeks on the chart. In addition to her posthumous #1 hit "Me and Bobby McGee," Janis Joplin's Pearl featured "Buried Alive in the Blues," a track missing the vocals Joplin didn't live to complete. Kristofferson stayed to become Janis' beau for a short time and left behind his song for his feather-boaed girlfriend. "Me and Bobby McGee" was written by actor, singer, Rhodes scholar and songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who tagged along with his freind Bobby Neuwirth to what Myra Friedman, in her Joplin biography Buried Alive, calls "the great Tequila bash" in the spring of 1970. Released in January, 1971, it yielded the second posthumous number one single of the rock era (Otis Redding's " The Dock of the Bay" being the first). She hadn't completed recording her Pearl album when she died.
She was found dead in her room at the Landmark Motel in Hollywood on the evening of October 4, 1970, a victim of a heroin overdose. When friends suggested her health could not withstand her rowdy lifestyle, she replied, "Maybe I won't last as long as other singers, but I think you can destroy your now worrying about tomorrow." Janis Joplin will never have to worry about tomorrow. He was a bawdy, hard-drinking Texas mama who swore like the boys and savaged her white vocal chords to sing the blues.
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