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I grew with Emmylous Harris, it is to say if I am not very young any more!
J'ai grandi avec Emmylous Harris, c'est dire si je ne suis plus très jeune!
J'ai grandi avec Emmylous Harris, c'est dire si je ne suis plus très jeune!
Mais je n'ai jamais fait l'amour avec elle, vu que je ne l'ai jamais vu sur scène car lors de mon périple étatsunien en 76,
elle nous avait déjà quittée (04/10/70)... pourtant j'ai un certain amour pour elle...
J'avais 17 ans lorsque j'ai acheté mon premier disque de Janis Joplin. Ben lorsque je l'ai mis sur la platine pour la première fois, ma mère a poussé des
cris d'orfraie à l'écoute de "cette folle à la
voix éraillée", et de me dire "que j'aurais pu acheter un autre disque que celui là"... Mais elle ne connaissait pas, ni moi non plus du reste. Je ne sais
pas ce qu'il en est aujourd'hui, si elle a changé de point de vue, mais pour moi Janis Joplin reste une figure emblématique de cette époque révolue...que sont les SIXTIES.
La courte vie de Janis Joplin fut aussi intense que désordonnée. Morte à 27 ans après avoir enregistré avec
trois groupes différents, elle fait partie du tristement célèbre « club 27 » regroupant des figures du rock frappées en pleine ascension à l'image de Jim Morrison.
Sa voix enrouée et débordante d'énergie, aussi évidente dans la soul que dans le blues-rock, restera sans égale et définitivement associée aux années soixante et au festival de Woodstock.
Sa gouaille, son look hippie et son chant poignant de fragilité feront d’elle la première grande icône féminine du rock, entrée trop vite dans la légende aux cotés des grands disparus de la désillusion peace and love, tels Jimi Hendrix ou Brian Jones.
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Sa voix enrouée et débordante d'énergie, aussi évidente dans la soul que dans le blues-rock, restera sans égale et définitivement associée aux années soixante et au festival de Woodstock.
Sa gouaille, son look hippie et son chant poignant de fragilité feront d’elle la première grande icône féminine du rock, entrée trop vite dans la légende aux cotés des grands disparus de la désillusion peace and love, tels Jimi Hendrix ou Brian Jones.
Copyright Music Story 2008
| Janis Joplin | |
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Janis Joplin en 1969.
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| Nom | Janis Lyn Joplin |
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| Naissance |
19 janvier 1943 Port Arthur, Texas États-Unis |
| Pays d’origine |
 États-Unis
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| Décès |
4 octobre 1970 (à 27 ans) Los Angeles, Californie États-Unis |
| Genre(s) |
Rock psychédélique Acid rock Hard rock Blues Rock |
| Instrument(s) |
Chant Guitare |
| Années actives | 1963 - 1970 |
| Label(s) | Columbia |
| Site Web | SITE OFFICIEL |
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| Entourage | Big Brother and the Holding Company |
Biographie de Janis Joplin sur evene.fr
Blues, rock, soul, Janis Joplin a écumé tous les styles. Dans sa petite ville de Port Arthur, elle grandit au
rythme du blues, chante dans la chorale locale et se distingue par sa voix surprenante. Diplômée de Jefferson High School, elle abandonne vite ses études universitaires et s'installe près de San
Francisco, où elle travaille occasionnellement comme chanteuse de folk.
Toxicomane et alcoolique, elle se préoccupe plus de drogue que de chansons, et sa santé se détériore progressivement. Elle rejoint le groupe Big Brother and the Holding Company, enregistre un album en 1967, et se fait connaître lors du festival de Monterey.
Elle se détache du groupe pour en former un second, le Kozmic Blues Band - qui l'accompagne sur le titre "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!'", puis un troisième, le Full Tilt Boogie Band.
Il en résulte l'album posthume 'Pearl' de 1971. Janis Joplin meurt d'une overdose à Hollywood.
The greatest
white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. First rising to stardom
as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother & the Holding Company, she left the group in the late '60s for a brief and uneven (though commercially successful) career as
a solo artist. Although she wasn't always supplied with the best material or most sympathetic musicians, her best recordings, with both Big Brother and on her own, are some of the most exciting
performances of her era. She also did much to redefine the role of women in rock with her assertive, sexually forthright persona and raunchy, electrifying on-stage presence.
Joplin was raised in the small town of Port Arthur, TX, and much of her subsequent personal difficulties and unhappiness has been attributed to her inability to fit in with the expectations of the conservative community. She'd been singing blues and folk music since her teens, playing on occasion in the mid-'60s with future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. There are a few live pre-Big Brother recordings (not issued until after her death), reflecting the inspiration of early blues singers like Bessie Smith, that demonstrate she was well on her way to developing a personal style before hooking up with the band. She had already been to California before moving there permanently in 1966, when she joined a struggling early San Francisco psychedelic group, Big Brother & the Holding Company. Although their loose, occasionally sloppy brand of bluesy psychedelia had some charm, there can be no doubt that Joplin -- who initially didn't even sing lead on all of the material -- was primarily responsible for lifting them out of the ranks of the ordinary. She made them a hit at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, where her stunning version of "Ball and Chain" (perhaps her very best performance) was captured on film. After a debut on the Mainstream label, Big Brother signed a management deal with Albert Grossman and moved on to Columbia. Their second album, Cheap Thrills, topped the charts in 1968, but Joplin left the band shortly afterward, enticed by the prospects of stardom as a solo act.
Joplin's first album, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, was recorded with the Kozmic Blues Band, a unit that included horns and retained just one of the musicians that had played with her in Big Brother (guitarist Sam Andrew). Although it was a hit, it wasn't her best work; the new band, though more polished musically, was not nearly as sympathetic accompanists as Big Brother, purveying a soul-rock groove that could sound forced. That's not to say it was totally unsuccessful, boasting one of her signature tunes in "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)."
For years, Joplin's life had been a roller coaster of drug addiction , alcoholism, and volatile personal relationships , documented in several biographies. Musically, however, things were on the upswing shortly before her death, as she assembled a better, more versatile backing outfit, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, for her final album, Pearl (ably produced by Paul Rothchild). Joplin was sometimes criticized for screeching at the expense of subtlety, but Pearl was solid evidence of her growth as a mature, diverse stylist who could handle blues, soul, and folk-rock. "Mercedes Benz," "Get It While You Can," and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" are some of her very best tracks. Tragically, she died before the album's release, overdosing on heroin in a Hollywood hotel in October 1970. "Me and Bobby McGee" became a posthumous number one single in 1971, and thus the song with which she is most frequently identified. ..
DISCOGRAPHIE:
Pearl - (Audio CD - 1999) - Original recording remastered
Essential Janis Joplin - (Audio CD - 2003) - Limited Edition
Box of pearls: the Janis Joplin Collection - (Audio CD - 2005) - Box set
Live at Winterland '68 by Janis Joplin and Big Brothers (Audio CD - 2008) - Live
Festival express - The Grateful Dead, The Band, Rick Danko, and Levon Helm (DVD - 2004) - AC-3
Nine Hundred Nigths
I got dem ol' kozmic blues again, mama
Janis - Audio CD - 1993) -
I've been misery 'n,
Ever since my daddy gone, yeah.
I've been, honey, I've been misery 'n, yes I have, now.
Ever since my, since my daddy gone, gone, gone.
But I believe that it won't,
Baby, it won't be too long,
If I just could hang on,
Yeah, until my, till my misery
Will all be gone.
Whoa, I said my rooms, you know,
They're so empty, empty, empty, empty, empty.
Filled up with sadness, sometimes, yeah.
My rooms are so empty, empty, empty, empty.
Child, filled up with sadness, honey, sometimes, sometimes.
Oh well it just, it just moves in,
Like the fog rolls in.
And I find I, well I can't see you, baby,
For my tears.
But I've tried.
Don't you know I've tried.
Cried, cried, cried, cried, cried.
Baby now, I've been missin' you.
Oh, I've been missin' you, babe!
Yeah, and it all seems to bother me
Much more that it seems it should be.
So, baby, now, now,
Baby, now, now,
Baby, tell me why,
Does it have to be
Oh, so wrong for me ?
I never thought I could ever want anybody,
No, no, no, never did, I never did.
Why am I feelin' so strange ???
Whoaaaaa, I never, never, never needed nobody, no, no,
But maybe you could help me
Why am I feelin' so strange ?
Yeah, an' I've got me a great,
An' I've got a great big bed
With two pillows for my head.
Hey, but lately I been sleepin', sleepin' alone.
But I've tried,
Don't you know I've tried.
Cried, cried,
You know how I've cried.
An', an' baby, I've been missin' you.
Tried,
Don't you know I've tried.
Cried,
Cried, cried, cried, cried,
Toxicomane et alcoolique, elle se préoccupe plus de drogue que de chansons, et sa santé se détériore progressivement. Elle rejoint le groupe Big Brother and the Holding Company, enregistre un album en 1967, et se fait connaître lors du festival de Monterey.
Elle se détache du groupe pour en former un second, le Kozmic Blues Band - qui l'accompagne sur le titre "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!'", puis un troisième, le Full Tilt Boogie Band.
Il en résulte l'album posthume 'Pearl' de 1971. Janis Joplin meurt d'une overdose à Hollywood.
Tell Mama
Sublime Somerthime!
Cry Baby (live in toronto 1970)
Janis Joplin
The greatest
white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. First rising to stardom
as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother & the Holding Company, she left the group in the late '60s for a brief and uneven (though commercially successful) career as
a solo artist. Although she wasn't always supplied with the best material or most sympathetic musicians, her best recordings, with both Big Brother and on her own, are some of the most exciting
performances of her era. She also did much to redefine the role of women in rock with her assertive, sexually forthright persona and raunchy, electrifying on-stage presence.Joplin was raised in the small town of Port Arthur, TX, and much of her subsequent personal difficulties and unhappiness has been attributed to her inability to fit in with the expectations of the conservative community. She'd been singing blues and folk music since her teens, playing on occasion in the mid-'60s with future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. There are a few live pre-Big Brother recordings (not issued until after her death), reflecting the inspiration of early blues singers like Bessie Smith, that demonstrate she was well on her way to developing a personal style before hooking up with the band. She had already been to California before moving there permanently in 1966, when she joined a struggling early San Francisco psychedelic group, Big Brother & the Holding Company. Although their loose, occasionally sloppy brand of bluesy psychedelia had some charm, there can be no doubt that Joplin -- who initially didn't even sing lead on all of the material -- was primarily responsible for lifting them out of the ranks of the ordinary. She made them a hit at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, where her stunning version of "Ball and Chain" (perhaps her very best performance) was captured on film. After a debut on the Mainstream label, Big Brother signed a management deal with Albert Grossman and moved on to Columbia. Their second album, Cheap Thrills, topped the charts in 1968, but Joplin left the band shortly afterward, enticed by the prospects of stardom as a solo act.
Joplin's first album, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, was recorded with the Kozmic Blues Band, a unit that included horns and retained just one of the musicians that had played with her in Big Brother (guitarist Sam Andrew). Although it was a hit, it wasn't her best work; the new band, though more polished musically, was not nearly as sympathetic accompanists as Big Brother, purveying a soul-rock groove that could sound forced. That's not to say it was totally unsuccessful, boasting one of her signature tunes in "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)."
For years, Joplin's life had been a roller coaster of drug addiction , alcoholism, and volatile personal relationships , documented in several biographies. Musically, however, things were on the upswing shortly before her death, as she assembled a better, more versatile backing outfit, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, for her final album, Pearl (ably produced by Paul Rothchild). Joplin was sometimes criticized for screeching at the expense of subtlety, but Pearl was solid evidence of her growth as a mature, diverse stylist who could handle blues, soul, and folk-rock. "Mercedes Benz," "Get It While You Can," and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" are some of her very best tracks. Tragically, she died before the album's release, overdosing on heroin in a Hollywood hotel in October 1970. "Me and Bobby McGee" became a posthumous number one single in 1971, and thus the song with which she is most frequently identified. ..
DISCOGRAPHIE:
2.
Pearl - (Audio CD - 1999) - Original recording remastered
3.
Essential Janis Joplin - (Audio CD - 2003) - Limited Edition
5.
Box of pearls: the Janis Joplin Collection - (Audio CD - 2005) - Box set
6.
Live at Winterland '68 by Janis Joplin and Big Brothers (Audio CD - 2008) - Live
7.
Festival express - The Grateful Dead, The Band, Rick Danko, and Levon Helm (DVD - 2004) - AC-3
8.
18 essential songs (Audio CD - 1995)
9.
Nine Hundred Nigths
10.
I got dem ol' kozmic blues again, mama
(Audio CD - 1999) - Extra
tracks
11.
Janis - Audio CD - 1993) -
Paroles Janis Joplin Misery'n
I've been misery 'n,
Ever since my daddy gone, yeah.
I've been, honey, I've been misery 'n, yes I have, now.
Ever since my, since my daddy gone, gone, gone.
But I believe that it won't,
Baby, it won't be too long,
If I just could hang on,
Yeah, until my, till my misery
Will all be gone.
Whoa, I said my rooms, you know,
They're so empty, empty, empty, empty, empty.
Filled up with sadness, sometimes, yeah.
My rooms are so empty, empty, empty, empty.
Child, filled up with sadness, honey, sometimes, sometimes.
Oh well it just, it just moves in,
Like the fog rolls in.
And I find I, well I can't see you, baby,
For my tears.
But I've tried.
Don't you know I've tried.
Cried, cried, cried, cried, cried.
Baby now, I've been missin' you.
Oh, I've been missin' you, babe!
Yeah, and it all seems to bother me
Much more that it seems it should be.
So, baby, now, now,
Baby, now, now,
Baby, tell me why,
Does it have to be
Oh, so wrong for me ?
I never thought I could ever want anybody,
No, no, no, never did, I never did.
Why am I feelin' so strange ???
Whoaaaaa, I never, never, never needed nobody, no, no,
But maybe you could help me
Why am I feelin' so strange ?
Yeah, an' I've got me a great,
An' I've got a great big bed
With two pillows for my head.
Hey, but lately I been sleepin', sleepin' alone.
But I've tried,
Don't you know I've tried.
Cried, cried,
You know how I've cried.
An', an' baby, I've been missin' you.
Tried,
Don't you know I've tried.
Cried,
Cried, cried, cried, cried,
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