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The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery.

In this July 29, 1968 file photo, singer Janis Joplin performs at the Newport Folk Festival with her band Big Brother and the Holding Company.

1957 - Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Sam Cooke, and the Rays all had their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show.

The death of concert promoter Walt English leaves a potential void in the schedule at Warren Community Amphitheatre.

Lucinda Williams performs Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, during the Janis Joplin tribute concert at PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre.

Janis Joplin has an indelible image as a swaggering, boozing rock 'n' roll mama whose blues-based music was a raw outpouring of her angst.

Journalist Jeffery Sheler provides a probing biography of the two Rick Warrens. David Neff posted 11/10/2009 10:33AM L ike many teenagers, the adolescent Rick Warren wanted to be a rock star.

In this July 29, 1968 file photo, singer Janis Joplin performs at the Newport Folk Festival with her band Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, even Motorhead: All classic, all have put on fantastic concerts.

A major photographic exhibition Irving Penn Portraits will open at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2010.

In this magazine cover released by the Conde Nast Archive, the April 1, 1950 cover of "Vogue" with photography by Irving Penn, is shown.

An international buzz band upon the release of 2007's What's the Time Mr. Wolf? , their steamrolling debut set of garage blues and soulful punk, Noisettes seemed poised to carve out a long career as the 21st century's answer to Janis Joplin's work with Big Brother and the Holding Company.

ATTENION, CHEAP THRILL SEEKERS: Big Brother and the Holding Company has found a new following.

To hear Sam Andrew tell it, this weekend's Heroes of Woodstock show at Spotlight 29 Casino is the brainchild of three managers.

I'd been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when word spread of Janis Joplin's departure from Big Brother & the Holding Company.

New listings Mark Schulz and Point of Grace "Come Alive Tour." 7 p.m. Nov. 5, St.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. Janis Joplin was born on January 19th, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas.

1 excerpted from Jon Hammond's interview with founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin on HammondCast KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM San Francisco CA.

Two years before Woodstock, the first rock festival kicked off the Summer of Love and a master director was there to film it.

1972 - David Bowie sold out New York's Carnegie Hall. It was his first sell out in America.