Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Wolfe was right: you can't go home again. In August 1970, when Janis Joplin returned to Port Arthur, Texas for her tenth ...

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 ...

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music” (Simon & Schuster, $28.99), New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destructive singer ...

Janis JoplinThe Pearl SessionsLegacy Records2010 Pearl was vocalist Janis Joplin's valedictory and most fully realized recording. She never lived to see it released, dying of a heroin overdose the ...

Robert Plant has never been shy about the singers who shaped him, but one of the most surprising names on that list is Janis Joplin. Long before he was rock's golden god, he picked up a small, almost ...