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    time, or at least, had established a healthy following locally. Albert Grossman, arguably the most influential and important entertainment manager of the era, showcased them. Thanks to him, they secured a three-record deal with Colombia Records. The band played at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium and, at the Monterey Pop Festival, California, where Janis gave a legendary performance. A year later, Big Brother released their first album

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    One of the most colorful music legends of the 1960’s was Janis Joplin. Blues legend Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19th 1943 and is the oldest child. Janis was born and raised in the small Southern petroleum industry town of Port Arthur, Texas. By all accounts, however, Janis seems to have been a "normal" and happy child, who fitted society 's usual definition of "pretty".It was in Janis ' adolescence that the hang-ups and hassles that were to affect the path of the rest of her life. In a sense

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    Joe Diffie Research Paper

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    younger singers never quite catch. It’s New Traditionalism without compromise, but music that fans of certain more modern-sounding singers can enjoy as well.” Attitude sported up-tempo numbers worthy of lively line dances, “a modern take on hillbilly boogie of the 1940s and 50s,” and “sensitive, evocative and totally believable” ballads and “story songs.” Kienzle praised Diffie’s wit and sharp imagery throughout his critique and concluded, “Diffie’s found a focus and a strength here .... and if this

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    “Its 5’O Clock somewhere” Jimmy Buffet son of James Delaney and Lorraine Buffet would say (“Jimmy Buffett”Newsmakers). Jimmy was the oldest of the three James and Lorraine conceived, Loraine Marie and Lucy Ann are the two younger sisters (“Jimmy Buffett”Newsmakers). Not long after Jimmy was born their family loaded up and headed to Mobile, Alabama where Jimmy would spend the majority of his childhood (“Jimmy Buffett”St.James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture). Buffett attended a catholic high school

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