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Fifty years have passed since Janis Joplin, then just 27 years old, overdosed in Los Angeles. For devoted admirers, she remains the greatest female rock vocalist of all time, despite the tragic truth that most people only know of her death.
Interest in Joplin has hardly decreased after fifty years. In actuality, the number of biographies has been expanding since her unintentional death on October 4, 1970, at the Hollywood Landmark Motor Hotel. It had just been two weeks since Jimi Hendrix’s passing.
Books on Joplin typically credit Bessie Smith, the formidable African American blues singer who passed away in Mississippi six years before Joplin was born into a middle-class Texas family, as her first musical inspiration.
Although she believes there are other significant influences as well, her biographer Alice Echols concurs.
One may argue that Janis had a broad taste in music, as she was influenced by a wide range of folk and blues artists, including Lead Belly, Odetta, and Big Mama Thornton. And it is true that there were moments when she thought of herself as Bessie Smith reincarnated.
“While doing interviews for my book, I discovered that she had been a very dedicated student of music.” However, she never spoke about it in public because of her wild and profane rock-chick persona.”
Echols thinks as a singer Joplin had remarkable talent. She was unique back then, and perhaps she still is. The important thing to remember about Janis and other artists of the era, including Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, is that they rebelled against a system.
“They had witnessed their parents leading risk-averse lives, and Janis was determined to prevent her life from being compromised in the same manner that theirs had been.
She was always going to be this supermodel-type person; she had a wild life, partied hard, and ran with the rough set.
There is, however, a less evident aspect as well. For example, she was an avid reader. However, she passed away too soon, and during her brief life, she withheld information about a number of topics that would be interesting to learn more about now, including her interactions with heroin and other women. She is a challenging subject for a biographer in many ways.”
Joplin’s drinking and drug abuse were well-known prior to her rise to fame. She had given up her first attempt to establish herself in the San Francisco music scene in 1965 in order to go back to her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas.
