I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!

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    Janis Joplin 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, the eldest child of parents Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Janis was born and raised in the small Southern petroleum industry town of Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was a canning factory worker, her mother a registrar at a local business college. Her non-aberrational upbringing coupled with the atmosphere of Port Arthur at the time; generally restrictive

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    Some of the project's most memorable songs were "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" and "To Love Somebody," a cover of a Bee Gees tune. But Kozmic Blues received mixed reviews, with some media outlets criticizing Joplin personally. Feeling uniquely pressured to prove herself as a female solo artist in a male-dominated industry, the criticism caused distress for Joplin. "That was a pretty heavy

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    the genre? To start, Janis Joplin was one of the biggest rock stars of her time, along with musicians like The Velvet Underground and The Who. She was born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas and had an early love of music, especially the blues. Some of her main influences were Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Leadbelly.

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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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