Janis Joplin idolized this legendary singer, whose talent and style inspired her iconic voice and legendary rock career.

Austin is a city saturated with love, blessed with generations of artists able to translate that into song. Valentine’s Day is a perfect time to reflect on some of the quintessential love songs that ...

Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas. Sadly, she died of a heroin overdose at the young age of 27, in Los Angeles, California in 1970. In between those dates, though, she ...

If sandpaper and soul met a rose and birthed a child, that child would probably sound something like Janis Joplin. Joplin sang from the soul and with a voice hewn as if from sandpaper. And she lived a ...

The life and music of rock ’n’ roll icon Janis Joplin explodes onto stage in three performances of the Broadway tour of “Love, Janis — the Musical” this weekend at Lincoln Theater Napa Valley.

Pierce Carson, with more than 40 years at the Napa Valley Register, has a trove of colorful stories, but one of my own favorites is about the time he interviewed Janis Joplin at the Napa Town and ...

ST. PAUL — Tickets are on sale for "Love, Janis," a musical about the life and music of rock-n-roll icon Janis Joplin which will be at St. Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 6-April 15.

NEW YORK -- Is it possible that Janis Joplin has been dead for 31 years? So here we are, many of us middle-aged and maybe slowing down a little, and -- wow, can you believe it? -- there she is, Janis ...