If sandpaper and soul met a rose and birthed a child, that child would probably sound something like Janis Joplin. Joplin sang from the soul and with a voice hewn as if from sandpaper. And she lived a ...

Nick Gravenites performs in San Francisco in 1977 Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images Nick Gravenites, a Chicago blues musician who relocated to San Francisco in the 1960s and played an important role ...

Janis Joplin thrilled rock fans with her soulful music. As she burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, she was known for songs that were a unique mix of rock, folk, and blues. After her death in 1970, ...

Why did the girl sing the blues? Why does anyone sing the blues, but, specifically, why this girl from a Texas oil refinery town? From what buffet of insults and taunts did her soul have to dine to ...

It was twenty years ago today (or more accurately, twenty years prior to the studio date for this recording) that the Ensenada, Baja California-based Loma Alta Life Extension foundation cloned Joplin ...

As a gig-musical, it is a five-star belter, with more talent onstage than is decent. Not just the singer who plays Janis, Mary Bridget Davies (Sharon Sexton will cover at some performances) but a trio ...

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Robert Plant has never been shy about the singers who shaped him, but one of the most surprising names on that list is Janis ...

Nick Gravenites, a Chicago blues musician who relocated to San Francisco in the 1960s and played an important role in that city’s burgeoning rock scene, died September 18, after many months of failing ...