Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. It reached number one on the Billboard charts. A second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970, at the age of 27, after releasing three albums (two with Big Brother and the Holding Company and one solo album). Her most popular songs include her cover versions of " Piece of My Heart", " Cry Baby", " Down on Me", " Ball and Chain", and " Summertime" and her original song " Mercedes Benz", her final recording. Five singles by Joplin reached the Billboard Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song " Me and Bobby McGee", which reached number one in March 1971. She appeared at the Woodstock festival and on the Festival Express train tour.
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After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. In 1967, Joplin rose to fame following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence. Visit /tv to find upcoming broadcasts.Janis Joplin (Janu– October 4, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter who sang rock, soul, and blues music. Watch the trailer for Janis: Little Girl Blue below. Narrated by Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin, the documentary features interviews with Joplin's former bandmates and Bay Area journalists and performers. Follow Janis Joplin's career from her rise to fame at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival to her untimely death in Los Angeles in 1970. This year marks the album’s 45th anniversary.Īlso, following at 10pm is the KQED production Janis Joplin: San Francisco’s Pearl. In tribute, she performs “A Woman Left Lonely” from Joplin’s final studio album Pearl, released posthumously on Jan. Pink), Juliette Lewis, Melissa Etheridge and the film’s narrator, Chan Marshall, who is best known as indie rock star Cat Power. The broadcast features a never-before-seen extended film cut with additional archival performance footage and new interviews with Joplin’s sister Laura Joplin and musicians influenced by Janis: Alecia Moore (a.k.a. Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg ( Deliver Us From Evil, West of Memphis, Prophet’s Prey) examines Joplin’s story in depth, for the first time on film, presenting an intimate portrait of a complicated and driven artist.Īmerican Masters – Janis: Little Girl Blue premieres nationwide Tuesday, May 3, at 8pm on KQED as part of the 30th anniversary season of THIRTEEN’s American Masters series. 4, 1970) thrilled audiences and blazed new creative trails before her death at age 27. One of the most revered and influential rock ’n’ roll singers of all time, Janis Joplin (Jan.