Photographer Daniel Kramer captures Janis Joplin cutting her 1968 hit “Piece of My Heart” in New York. “Janis wanted a bottle of Southern Comfort, so I accompanied her to a local wine store, then she did a few takes,” he recalls. “It was an empty studio, there was no stage or audience, no one to work to — yet she was just incredible.”
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Janis Joplin, one of my all time favourites, she performed at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969 and my parents wouldn’t let me go *&^***&% and she died the following year. Interestingly one of the publicity shots of her outside the Royal Albert Hall shows a small mark on her left upper thigh, some suggest it was a blood stain from injecting. She never was the most attractive or the best singer of the period but she had a quality that drew me to her whilst my peers were listening to the Beatles etc and she still has pride of place, moving from vinyl to my cd collection. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
She’s one of my absolute favourites too, and I got more recordings of her than she would have thought possible 😉 Apart from all her official records I think I got three times as many bootlegs