It's not going out on too thin of a limb to say that Big Brother and the Holding Company's Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is for the hardest of hardcore Janis Joplin fans only. The concert album ...

Music journalist Holly George-Warren, author of the new biography, "Janis: Her Life and Music" (published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS), offers "CBS Sunday Morning" a roster of favorite ...

2014 Drama League Awards Distinguished Performance Award Mary Bridget Davies 2014 Theatre World Awards Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance Mary Bridget Davies 2014 Tony Awards Best ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

Holly George-Warren appeared at the 2019 Texas Book Festival. Read more from our collection covering the festival’s authors here. Holly George-Warren’s Janis: Her Life and Music (Simon & Schuster, ...

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music” (Simon & Schuster, $28.99), New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destructive singer ...

Though she passed away in 1970, Janis Joplin’s voice is still raging into the horizon. Growling and angelic, the Port Arthur, Texas-born singer’s style and range were unparalleled in her time and ...

In the 1960s, Janis Joplin was an icon of the counterculture, a female rock star at a time when rock was an all-boys' club. "At that point in time there weren't too many women taking center stage," ...

Before Janis Joplin joined Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1966, they were a sloppy and barely competent boogie-blues band dabbling in hippie aesthetics. Not much changed once Joplin was on ...

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music” (Simon & Schuster, $28.99), New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destructive singer ...