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{{short description|American singer (1943–1970)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Janis Joplin
| image              = Janis Joplin 1970.JPG
| alt                = Portrait photo of Janis Joplin posing and smiling.
| caption            = Joplin in June 1970
| birth_name         = Janis Lyn Joplin
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1943|1|19}}
| birth_place        = [[Port Arthur, Texas]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1970|10|4|1943|1|19}}
| death_place        = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S.
| death_cause        = [[Opioid overdose|Heroin overdose]]
| signature          = Janis Joplin Signature.svg
| occupation         = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|musician}}
| mother             =
| father             =
| awards             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]]
* [[Grammy Hall of Fame]]
}}
| website            = {{URL|janisjoplin.com}}
| module             = {{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| genre              = {{hlist|[[Psychedelic rock]]|[[blues rock]]|[[soul music|soul]]|[[blues]]}}
| instrument         = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}}<!--- If you think an instrument should be listed, a discussion to reach consensus is needed first per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_musical_artist#instrument--->
| years_active       = 1962–1970
| label              = [[Columbia Records]]
| past_member_of     = [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]]
}}
}}

'''Janis Lyn Joplin''' (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful [[Rock music|rock]] performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful [[mezzo-soprano]] vocals and her "electric" stage presence.

In 1967, Joplin rose to prominence following an appearance at the [[Monterey Pop Festival]], where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco [[psychedelic rock]] band [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]]. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the {{interlanguage link|Kozmic Blues Band|it||pt}} and then the [[Full Tilt Boogie Band]]. She performed at the 1969 [[Woodstock|Woodstock Festival]] and on the ''[[Festival Express]]'' train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], including a [[cover version|cover]] of the [[Kris Kristofferson]] song "[[Me and Bobby McGee]]", which posthumously reached number one in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "[[Piece of My Heart]]", "[[Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song)|Cry Baby]]", "[[Down on Me (traditional song)|Down on Me]]", "[[Ball and Chain (Big Mama Thornton song)|Ball and Chain]]", and "[[Summertime (George Gershwin song)|Summertime]]", as well as her original song "[[Mercedes Benz (song)|Mercedes Benz]]", which was her final recording.

Joplin died of a [[heroin]] overdose in 1970, at the [[27 Club|age of 27]], after releasing three albums (two with Big Brother and the Holding Company and one solo album). A second solo album, ''[[Pearl (Janis Joplin album)|Pearl]]'', was released in January 1971, three months after her death. It reached number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]. She was posthumously inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1995. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked Joplin  number 28 on its 2008 list of the "[[Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers of All Time|200 Greatest Singers of All Time]]", dropping to number 78 in the 2023 list. As of 2013, she remains one of the top-selling vocalists in the United States, with [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA) certifications of 18.5&nbsp;million albums sold.

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== Early life ==
[[File:Janis Joplin HS Yearbook.jpeg|thumb|upright|Joplin in 1960 as a graduating senior in high school]]
Janis Lyn Joplin<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin's Kozmic Blues |url=https://www.janisjoplin.net/ |access-date=May 7, 2022 |website=Kozmic Blues |language=en-US |archive-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422182752/https://www.janisjoplin.net/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was born in [[Port Arthur, Texas]], on {{birth date|mf=yes|1943|1|19}},<ref name="scars">{{Cite book |title=Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin |first=Alice |last=Echols |author-link=Alice Echols |publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-8050-5394-4}}</ref> to Dorothy Bonita East (1913–1998), a [[registrar (education)|registrar]] at a business college, and her husband, Seth Ward Joplin (1910–1987), an engineer at [[Texaco]]. She had two younger siblings, Laura and Michael. The family attended First Christian Church of Port Arthur, a church belonging to the [[Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)]] denomination.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Portal to Texas History|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth34931/|url-status=live|access-date=March 24, 2021|website=texashistory.unt.edu|date=December 26, 1954|archive-date=December 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222020745/https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth34931/}}</ref>

Her parents felt that Janis needed more attention than their other children.<ref name="jacobson">{{Cite book |title=Hollywood Heartbreak: The Tragic and Mysterious Deaths of Hollywood's Most Remarkable Legends |first=Laurie |last=Jacobson |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-671-49998-3}}</ref> As a teenager, Joplin befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by [[blues]] artists [[Bessie Smith]], [[Ma Rainey]], and [[Lead Belly]], which Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.<ref name="amburn">{{Cite book |title=Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin : A Biography |first=Ellis |last=Amburn |author-link= Ellis Amburn |publisher=[[Time Warner]] |year= 1992 |isbn=978-0-446-51640-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780446395069}}</ref> She began singing [[blues]] and [[folk music]] with friends at [[Thomas Jefferson High School (Port Arthur, Texas)|Thomas Jefferson High School]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Janis Joplin at 70 |url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/Janis-Joplin-at-70-4200305.php |website=Houston Chronicle |date=January 17, 2013 |access-date=February 5, 2017 |archive-date=February 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206184440/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/Janis-Joplin-at-70-4200305.php |url-status=live |last1=Dansby |first1=Andrew }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth439603/hits/?q=Joplin |year=1959 |title=The Yellow Jacket, Yearbook of Thomas Jefferson High School, 1959 |website=The Portal to Texas History |language=en |access-date=April 16, 2020 |archive-date=May 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518205355/https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth439603/hits/?q=Joplin |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/echols-scars.html |title=Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin |first=Alice |last=Echols |website=The New York Times |year=1999 |access-date=June 19, 2018 |archive-date=August 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828014956/http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/echols-scars.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url={{Google books|wBUlRNnitHMC |page=PA51|keywords=|text=Arlene|plainurl=yes}} |title=Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin |last=Friedman |first=Myra |year=2011 |publisher=Crown/Archetype |isbn=978-0-3077-9052-1 |language=en}}</ref> In high school, she was a classmate of [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] coach [[Jimmy Johnson (American football coach)|Jimmy Johnson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Janis Joplin at 70|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/Janis-Joplin-at-70-4200305.php|website=Houston Chronicle|date=January 17, 2013|access-date=February 5, 2017|archive-date=February 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206184440/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/Janis-Joplin-at-70-4200305.php|url-status=live |last1=Dansby |first1=Andrew }}</ref> Joplin stated that she was ostracized and bullied in high school.<ref name="amburn" /> As a teen, she became overweight and suffered from acne, leaving her with deep scars that required [[dermabrasion]].<ref name="jacobson" /><ref name="caserta" /><ref name="buried">{{Cite book |title=Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin |first=Myra |last=Friedman |publisher=[[Crown Publishing Group]] |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-517-58650-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/buriedalivebiogr00fried}}</ref> Other kids at high school would routinely taunt her and call her names like "pig", "freak", "[[n-word]] lover", or "creep".<ref name="jacobson" /> She said, "I was a misfit. I read, I painted, I thought. I didn't hate black people."<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url={{Google books|Ey4TCgAAQBAJ |page=PA363|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |page=363 |chapter=In the Zone of Ambivalence: A Journal of Competition |last=Dimen |first=Muriel |editor1-last=Weisser |editor1-first=Susan Ostrov |editor2-last=Fleischner |editor2-first=Jennifer |title=Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood |publisher=NYU Press |date=1994 |isbn=978-0-8147-2620-4}}</ref>

Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended [[Lamar University|Lamar State College of Technology]] in [[Beaumont, Texas]], during the summer<ref name="caserta" /> and later the [[University of Texas at Austin]] (UT), although she did not complete her college studies.<ref name="style">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/joplin.htm |title=Janis Joplin: A Cry Cutting Through Time |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 5, 1998 |first=Paul |last=Hendrickson |author-link=Paul Hendrickson |access-date=May 12, 2008 |archive-date=June 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621160450/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/joplin.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The campus newspaper, ''[[The Daily Texan]]'', ran a profile of her in the issue dated July 27, 1962, headlined "She Dares to Be Different."<ref name="style" /> The article began, "She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears [[Levi's]] to class because they're more comfortable, and carries her [[Autoharp]] with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break into song, it will be handy. Her name is Janis Joplin."<ref name="style" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sharpe |first=Pat |date=July 27, 1962 |title=She Dares to be Different! |url=https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/a3b8cd89-a2ab-42ad-8470-a7a9c89c0569 |work=[[The Daily Texan]] |pages=5}}</ref> While at UT she performed with a [[Folk music|folk]] trio called the Waller Creek Boys ([[Powell St. John]] and Lanny Wiggins), showcasing her strong [[mezzo-soprano]] vocals,<ref>{{cite book |last=Bennett |first=Gloria |title=Breaking Through: From Rock to Opera, the Basic Technique of Voice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qJZzBa6WnA4C&q=janis+joplin+vocal+nodules&pg=PA28 |access-date=September 10, 2013 |year=1994 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=978-0-7935-7238-0 |page=28 |archive-date=April 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430142117/https://books.google.com/books?id=qJZzBa6WnA4C&q=janis+joplin+vocal+nodules&pg=PA28 |url-status=live }}</ref> and frequently socialized with the staff of the campus humor magazine ''[[The Texas Ranger (magazine)|The Texas Ranger]]''.<ref name=TR-Fox>{{cite web |url=http://comixjoint.com/texasranger.html |title=Texas Ranger |first=M. Steven |last=Fox |website=ComixJoint |access-date=December 18, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713122625/http://comixjoint.com/texasranger.html |archive-date=July 13, 2016}}</ref> According to [[Freak Brothers]] cartoonist [[Gilbert Shelton]], who befriended her, she used to sell ''The Texas Ranger'', which contained some of Shelton's early comic books, on the campus.

== Career ==
=== 1962–1965: Early recordings ===
Joplin cultivated a rebellious manner and styled herself partly after her female blues heroines and partly after the [[Beat Generation|Beat poets]]. Her first song, "[[What Good Can Drinkin' Do]]", was recorded on tape in December 1962 at the home of a fellow University of Texas student.<ref name="Paytress 1994">{{Cite magazine |last=Paytress |first=Mark |title=Janis Joplin. Mark Paytress assesses Columbia's three-CD 'Janis' retrospective |magazine=[[Record Collector]] |volume=175 |pages=140–141 |date=March 1994}}</ref> She left Texas in January 1963, "Just to get away," she said, "because my head was in a much different place",<ref name=pc41>{{Pop Chronicles|41|5}}</ref> hitchhiking with her friend [[Chet Helms]] to [[North Beach, San Francisco]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Liberatore |first=Paul |newspaper=Marin Independent |date=June 16, 2023 |title=Nick Gravenites reminisces about Janis Joplin, Michael Bloomfield and the Chicago blues migration to San Francisco |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/16/nick-gravenites-reminisces-about-janis-joplin-michael-bloomfield-and-the-chicago-blues-migration-to-san-francisco/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621070504/https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/16/nick-gravenites-reminisces-about-janis-joplin-michael-bloomfield-and-the-chicago-blues-migration-to-san-francisco/ |archive-date=June 21, 2023 |access-date=April 23, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> Still in San Francisco in 1964, Joplin and future [[Jefferson Airplane]] guitarist [[Jorma Kaukonen]] recorded a number of blues standards, which incidentally featured Kaukonen's wife Margareta using a typewriter in the background. This session included seven tracks: "Typewriter Talk", "[[Trouble in Mind (song)|Trouble in Mind]]", "Kansas City Blues", "[[Hesitation Blues]]", "[[Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out]]", "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy", and "Long Black Train Blues", and was released long after Joplin's death as the [[bootleg recording|bootleg]] album ''The Typewriter Tape''.

In 1963, Joplin was arrested in San Francisco for shoplifting. During the two years that followed, her drug use increased and she acquired a reputation as a "speed freak" and occasional heroin user.<ref name="scars" /><ref name="amburn" /><ref name="caserta">{{Cite book |title=Going Down With Janis |first=Peggy |last=Caserta |author-link=Peggy Caserta |publisher=[[Dell Publishing]] |date=1980 |isbn=978-0-440-13194-6}}</ref> She also used other [[psychoactive drugs]] and was a heavy drinker throughout her career; her favorite alcoholic beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 22, 2015|title=Janis Joplin's creed was 'get stoned, stay happy' but the highs had a dark side|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/22/janis-joplin-teenage-traumas-little-girl-blue|access-date=February 17, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=January 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112235336/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/22/janis-joplin-teenage-traumas-little-girl-blue|url-status=live}}</ref> In May 1965, Joplin's friends in San Francisco, noticing the detrimental effects on her from regularly injecting [[methamphetamine]]—she was described as "skeletal"<ref name="amburn" /> and "emaciated"<ref name="scars" />— persuaded her to return to Port Arthur. During that month, her friends threw her a [[rent party|bus-fare party]] so she could return to her parents in Texas.<ref name="scars" /> Five years later, Joplin told ''Rolling Stone'' magazine writer David Dalton the following about her first stint in San Francisco: "I didn't have many friends and I didn't like the ones I had."<ref name="dalton" />

Back in Port Arthur in the spring of 1965, after Joplin's parents noticed her weight of {{convert|88|lb}},<ref name="buried" /> she changed her lifestyle. She avoided drugs and alcohol, adopted a [[beehive (hairstyle)|beehive]] hairdo, and enrolled as an [[anthropology]] major at [[Lamar University]] in nearby Beaumont, Texas. Her sister Laura said in a 2016 interview that social work was her major during her year at Lamar.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/11528235/growing-up-with-sister-janis-1998-qa-with-laura-joplin |title=interview with Laura Joplin in 2016 |date=April 28, 2016 |access-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105003030/https://www.kqed.org/arts/11528235/growing-up-with-sister-janis-1998-qa-with-laura-joplin |url-status=live }}</ref> During her time at Lamar University, she commuted to [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] to sing solo, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar. One of her performances was at a benefit by local musicians for Texas bluesman [[Mance Lipscomb]], who was suffering with ill health. Joplin became engaged to Peter de Blanc in the fall of 1965.<ref name="Willett 55">{{Cite book |title=Janis Joplin: Take Another Little Piece of My Heart |first=Edward |last=Willett |publisher=Enslow Publishers, Inc. |isbn=978-0-7660-2837-1 |page=55 |date=2008}}</ref> She had begun a relationship with him toward the end of her first stint in San Francisco.<ref name="Willett 55" /> Now living in New York where he worked with [[IBM]] computers,<ref name="stthomassource.com">{{cite web |url=http://stthomassource.com/content/community/people/2002/07/01/internet-maven-peter-j-de-blanc-dies |title=Internet Maven Peter J. De Blanc Dies |date=July 1, 2002 |work=St Thomas Source |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214223015/http://stthomassource.com/content/community/people/2002/07/01/internet-maven-peter-j-de-blanc-dies |archive-date=December 14, 2014 |access-date=December 14, 2014 }}</ref><ref name="ccwhois.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.ccwhois.org/inmemoriam/www.islands.vi/pdeblanc/ |title=Peter de Blanc Personal Home Page |website=ccwhois.org |access-date=December 15, 2014 |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201223/http://www.ccwhois.org/inmemoriam/www.islands.vi/pdeblanc/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> he visited her to ask her father for her hand in marriage.<ref name="Joplin, Laura">{{Cite book |title=Love, Janis |first=Laura |last=Joplin |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-06-075522-5}}</ref> Joplin and her mother began planning the wedding.<ref name="buried" /><ref name="Joplin, Laura" /> De Blanc, who traveled frequently,<ref name="Willett 55" /> ended the engagement soon afterward.<ref name="buried" /><ref name="Willett 55" />

In 1965 and 1966, Joplin commuted from her family's Port Arthur home to Beaumont, Texas, where she had regular sessions with a psychiatric social worker named Bernard Giarritano<ref name="buried" /> at a counseling agency that was funded by the United Fund (now the [[United Way]]).<ref name="scars" /> {{Relevance inline|reason=Why does it matter who her counseling agency was funded by?|date=September 2025}} Interviewed by biographer Myra Friedman after his client's death, Giarritano said Joplin had been baffled by how she could pursue a professional career as a singer without relapsing into drugs, and her drug-related memories from immediately prior to returning to Port Arthur continued to frighten her.<ref name="buried" /> Joplin sometimes brought an acoustic guitar with her to her sessions with Giarritano, and people in other offices within the building could hear her singing.<ref name="scars" /> Giarritano tried to reassure her that she did not have to use narcotics to succeed in the music business.<ref name="buried" /> She also said that if she were to avoid singing professionally, she would have to become a keypunch operator, as she had done a few years earlier, or a secretary, and then a wife and mother, and she would have to become similar to all the other women in Port Arthur.<ref name="buried" /> Approximately a year before Joplin joined [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]], she recorded seven studio tracks with her acoustic guitar. Among the songs she recorded were her original composition of "Turtle Blues" and an alternate version of "Cod'ine" by [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]]. These tracks were later released as an album in 1995, titled ''This is Janis Joplin 1965''.

=== 1966–1969: Big Brother and the Holding Company ===
{{Main|Big Brother and the Holding Company|Big Brother & the Holding Company (album)}}
[[File:Janis Joplin Big Brother and the Holding Company.jpg|thumb|right|Joplin (seated) with Big Brother and the Holding Company, {{circa|1966–1967}} |alt=]]
In 1966, Joplin's bluesy vocal style attracted the attention of the San Francisco-based [[psychedelic rock]] band Big Brother and the Holding Company,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/women-who-rock-greatest-breakthrough-moments-20120622/1967-janis-joplin-takes-a-piece-of-our-heart-20120622 |title=Women Who Rock: Greatest Breakthrough Moments, 1967 Janis Joplin takes a piece of our heart |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=June 22, 2012 |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-date=September 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912055106/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/women-who-rock-greatest-breakthrough-moments-20120622/1967-janis-joplin-takes-a-piece-of-our-heart-20120622 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/21/the-secret-life-of-janis-joplin-a-girl-interrupted.html |title=The Secret Life of Janis Joplin: A Girl, Interrupted |date=November 21, 2015 |first=Jen |last=Yamato |work=The Daily Beast |access-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-date=June 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603190248/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/21/the-secret-life-of-janis-joplin-a-girl-interrupted.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url={{Google books|PfvdCwAAQBAJ|page=PA112|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |pages=111–112 |title=A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record |first=Wayne |last=Robins |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-1359-2346-4}}</ref> which had gained some renown among the nascent [[hippie]] community in [[Haight-Ashbury]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/janis-joplin-mn0000177060/biography |title=Janis Joplin: Biography & History |website=AllMusic |access-date=August 16, 2017 |archive-date=March 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309015200/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/janis-joplin-mn0000177060/biography |url-status=live }}</ref> She was recruited to join the group by [[Chet Helms]], a promoter who was managing Big Brother and with whom she had hitchhiked from Texas to San Francisco a few years earlier. Helms sent his friend Travis Rivers to find her in Austin, Texas, where she had been performing with her acoustic guitar, and to accompany her to San Francisco. At that time, she gave her parents the impression Austin was her final destination and it was the location of the rock band she was joining.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/11528235/growing-up-with-sister-janis-1998-qa-with-laura-joplin |title=KQED radio interview with Laura Joplin in 1998 |date=April 28, 2016 |access-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105003030/https://www.kqed.org/arts/11528235/growing-up-with-sister-janis-1998-qa-with-laura-joplin |url-status=live }}</ref> Joplin joined Big Brother on June 4, 1966.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/janis-joplin/ |title=Janis Joplin |website=WolfgangsVault.com |access-date=June 13, 2010 |archive-date=June 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614183700/http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/janis-joplin/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Her first public performance with them was at the [[Avalon Ballroom]] in San Francisco. Soon after that, her parents received a letter from her, and that was how they learned she was in San Francisco, not Austin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/11528235/growing-up-with-sister-janis-1998-qa-with-laura-joplin |title=KQED radio interview with Laura Joplin from 1998 |date=April 28, 2016 |access-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105003030/https://www.kqed.org/arts/11528235/growing-up-with-sister-janis-1998-qa-with-laura-joplin |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 1966, Joplin was still strict about drug use and when she shared an apartment with Travis Rivers upon their arrival in San Francisco, she made him promise that using needles would not be allowed there.<ref name="buried" /> When bandmate Dave Getz accompanied her from a rehearsal to her home, Rivers was not there, but "two or three", according to Getz' recollection 25 years later, guests whom Rivers had invited were in the process of injecting drugs.<ref name="buried" /> "One of them was about to tie off," recalled Getz.<ref name="buried" /> "''Janis went nuts!'' I had never seen anybody explode like that. She was screaming and crying and Travis walked in. She screamed at him: 'We had a pact! You promised me! There wouldn't be any of that in front of me!' I was over my head and I tried to calm her down. I said, 'They're just doing [[mescaline]],' because that's what I thought it was. She said, 'You don't understand! I can't see that! I just can't stand to see that!'"<ref name="buried" />

A San Francisco concert from that summer (1966) was recorded and released on the 1984 album ''Cheaper Thrills''.<!--this is Cheaper Thrills, 1984 album, ''not'' Cheap Thrills, which was released in 1968. Please DO ''not'' change this.--> Joplin had a short relationship and longer friendship with Grateful Dead founding member [[Ron "Pigpen" McKernan]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead |url=https://archive.org/details/longstrangetripi00mcna_0 |url-access=registration |first=Dennis |last=McNally |publisher=Broadway Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-767-91186-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dante|date=May 7, 2017|title=Page 43 Kindred Spirits|url=https://thegdwheel.com/page-43/|access-date=October 27, 2020|website=The Wheel|language=en-US|archive-date=June 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601044141/https://thegdwheel.com/page-43/|url-status=live}}</ref> The band went to Chicago for a four-week engagement in August 1966, then found itself stranded after the promoter ran out of money when its concerts did not attract the expected audience levels, and he was unable to pay them.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.majorlycool.com/item/janis |title=Janis Joplin: Rock and Blues Legend |website=MajorlyCool.com |access-date=June 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329220537/http://www.majorlycool.com/item/janis |archive-date=March 29, 2010}}</ref> In the unfortunate circumstances the band signed with [[Bob Shad]]'s record label [[Mainstream Records]]; recordings for the label took place in Chicago in September, but these were not satisfactory, and the band returned to San Francisco, continuing to perform live, including at the [[Love Pageant Rally]].<ref>{{cite book |url={{Google books|wBUlRNnitHMC |page=PA79|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |page=79 |title=Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin |first=Myra |last=Friedman |publisher=Crown/Archetype |year= 2011 |isbn=978-0-3077-9052-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url={{Google books|8XG9CgAAQBAJ |page=PA66|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |page=66 |title=The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time: A Guide to the Legends Who Rocked the World |first=David V. |last=Moskowitz |publisher=ABC-CLIO |date=2015 |isbn=978-1-4408-0340-6}}</ref> The band recorded two tracks, "Blindman" and "All Is Loneliness", in Los Angeles, and these were released by Mainstream as a single that did not sell well.<ref name=Chris /> After playing at a [[happening]] in Stanford in early December 1966, the band traveled back to Los Angeles to record ten tracks between December 12 and 14, 1966, produced by Bob Shad, which appeared on the band's debut album in August 1967.<ref name=Chris>{{cite book |url={{Google books|LPVgBQAAQBAJ |page=PP17|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |page=17 |first=Chris |last=Salewicz |title=27: Janis Joplin |publisher=Hachette UK |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-7808-7541-5}}</ref> In late 1966, Big Brother switched managers from Chet Helms to Julius Karpen.<ref name="amburn" /> Janis Joplin and Big Brother performed there along with the Hare Krishna founder [[Bhaktivedanta Swami]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Moby Grape]], and the [[Grateful Dead]], donating proceeds to the Krishna temple.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bromley |first1=David G. |author-link1=David G. Bromley |last2=Shinn |first2=Larry D. |author-link2=Larry Shinn |title=Krishna Consciousness in the West |url={{Google books|F-EuD3M2QYoC |page=PA106|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |year=1989 |page=106 |publisher=[[Bucknell University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Chryssides |first1=George D. |author-link=George D. Chryssides |last2=Wilkins |first2=Margaret Z. |title=A Reader in New Religious Movements |year=2006 |publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group]] |url={{Google books|HgFlebSZKLcC |page=PA213|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |isbn=978-0-8264-6168-1 |page=213}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Joplin |first=Laura |title=Love, Janis |year=1992 |publisher=[[Villard (imprint)|Villard Books]]  <!-- Original from [[University of Michigan]] --> |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYjuAAAAMAAJ |isbn=978-0-679-41605-0 |page=182 |access-date=December 3, 2023 |archive-date=December 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203224325/https://books.google.com/books?id=CYjuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> In early 1967, Joplin met [[Country Joe McDonald]] of the group [[Country Joe and the Fish]]. The pair lived together as a couple for a few months in her Lyon Street apartment.<ref name="scars" /><ref name="dalton" /> A driver's license, issued to Joplin in 1967, shows her residence as 122 Lyon Street No. 3, in San Francisco.<ref name=lyon>{{cite web |url=https://rockandrollroadmap.com/places/homes-of-rock-and-roll-stars/san-francisco-area-homes-of-rock-and-roll-stars/janis-joplins-apartment-in-san-francisco/ |title=Janis Joplin's apartment in San Francisco |work=rockandrollroadmap.com |date=May 9, 2018 |access-date=March 9, 2022 |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127211646/https://rockandrollroadmap.com/places/homes-of-rock-and-roll-stars/san-francisco-area-homes-of-rock-and-roll-stars/janis-joplins-apartment-in-san-francisco/ |url-status=live }}</ref><!-- Insert image and reference for picture of 122 Lyon Street house when available [[File:JoplinHouse.PNG|thumb|left|Joplin's house at 122 Lyon Street in [[Haight-Ashbury]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zzzz.com |title=Janis Joplin apartment in Haight Ashbury |website=zzzz.com |access-date=January 1, 2022}}</ref>]] --> Joplin and Big Brother played at the [[Hollywood Bowl]] in Los Angeles, as well as in Seattle, Washington; Vancouver, British Columbia; the [[Psychedelic Supermarket]] in Boston, Massachusetts; and the [[Golden Bear (nightclub)|Golden Bear Club]] in Huntington Beach, California.<ref name="dalton" />

[[File:Janis Joplin - Cash Box 1968.jpg|thumb|Joplin on the cover of ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]''; September 7, 1968]]
The band's debut studio album, ''[[Big Brother & the Holding Company (album)|Big Brother & the Holding Company]]'', was released by [[Mainstream Records]] in August 1967, shortly after the group's breakthrough appearance in June at the [[Monterey Pop Festival]].<ref name=pc41 /> Two tracks, "Coo Coo" and "The Last Time", were released separately as singles, while the tracks from the previous single, "Blindman" and "All Is Loneliness", were added to the remaining eight tracks.<ref name=Chris /> When [[Columbia Records]] took over the band's contract and re-released the album, they included "Coo Coo" and "The Last Time", and put "featuring Janis Joplin" on the cover. The debut album spawned four minor hits sung by Joplin including "[[Down on Me (traditional song)|Down on Me]]", a traditional song arranged by Joplin, "Bye Bye Baby", "Call On Me" and "Coo Coo". All but one of the tracks of their next album ''[[Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company album)|Cheap Thrills]]'' were recorded in the studio with only "Ball and Chain" actually recorded in front of a paying audience.<ref name="scars" /> The album had a raw quality, including the sound of a drinking glass breaking and the broken shards being swept away during the song "Turtle Blues". ''Cheap Thrills'' produced popular hits with "[[Piece of My Heart]]" and "[[Summertime (George Gershwin song)|Summertime]]". Together with the premiere of the documentary film ''[[Monterey Pop]]'' at New York's [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts]] on December 26, 1968,<ref>{{cite news |title=Screen: Upbeat Musical; 'Monterey Pop' Views the Rock Scene |last=Adler |first=Renata |date=December 27, 1968 |work=The New York Times |page=44}}</ref> the album launched Joplin as a star.<ref name="craig">{{Cite book |title=The Billboard Book of Number One Albums: The Inside Story Behind Pop Music's Blockbuster Records |first=Craig |last=Rosen |year=1996 |publisher=Billboard Books |isbn=978-0-8230-7586-7}}</ref> ''Cheap Thrills'' reached number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] album chart eight weeks after its release, and was number one for eight (nonconsecutive) weeks.<ref name="craig" />

===''Kosmic Blues'' and Woodstock (1969–1970)===

[[File:Janis Joplin Tom Jones 1969.JPG|thumb|Joplin performs with [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] on ''[[This Is Tom Jones]]'' in late 1969]]
{{see also|I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!}}
After splitting from Big Brother and the Holding Company, Joplin formed a new backup group, the Kozmic Blues Band, composed of session musicians like keyboardist Stephen Ryder and saxophonist Cornelius "Snooky" Flowers, as well as former Big Brother and the Holding Company guitarist [[Sam Andrew]] and future [[Full Tilt Boogie Band]] bassist Brad Campbell. The band was influenced by the [[Stax Records|Stax-Volt]] [[rhythm and blues]] (R&B) and soul bands of the 1960s, as exemplified by [[Otis Redding]] and [[the Bar-Kays]].<ref name="scars" /><ref name="amburn" /><ref name="buried" /> By early 1969, Joplin was allegedly shooting at least $200 worth of heroin per day ({{Inflation|US|200|1969|fmt=eq}})<ref name="caserta" /> although efforts were made to keep her clean during the recording of ''[[I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!]]'' [[Gabriel Mekler]], who produced the album, kept her away from drugs and her drug-using friends during the record's production.<ref name="buried" /> Joplin's appearances with the Kozmic Blues Band in Europe were released in theaters, in multiple documentaries. ''[[Janis (film)|Janis]]'', which was reviewed by ''[[The Washington Post]]'' on March 21, 1975,<ref>{{cite news |title='Janis': Purified Joplin |last=Zito |first=Tom |date=March 21, 1975 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=B11}}</ref> shows Joplin arriving in [[Frankfurt]] by plane. The film ''Janis'' includes interviews with Joplin in Stockholm and from her visit to [[London]], for her gig at [[Royal Albert Hall]]. John Byrne Cooke, road manager for Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band, wrote a book about her ongoing use of narcotics, particularly when she was outside the United States.<ref name="on the road">{{Cite book |title=On the Road With Janis Joplin |first=John Byrne |last=Cooke |author-link=John Byrne Cooke |year=2014 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=978-0-425-27411-8 }}</ref> On the episode of ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]'' that was telecast in the United States on the night of July 18, 1969, Joplin and her band performed "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" as well as "[[To Love Somebody (song)|To Love Somebody]]".

[[File:ViewScan John Huddy review of Janis concert in Columbus Dispatch edition of Monday, May 12, 1969 page 23B -- 4X digital zoom0000.jpg|thumb|right|Newspaper review of Joplin's 1969 concert at Vets Memorial Auditorium in Columbus, Ohio includes the fact that before it started she walked to the lobby and watched audience members arrive. They did not recognize her or pay attention to her.]]
Joplin performed at [[Woodstock]] starting at approximately 2:00&nbsp;a.m., on Sunday, August 17, 1969. Joplin had informed her band that they would be performing at the concert as if it were just another gig. Joplin was flown by helicopter with the pregnant [[Joan Baez]] and Baez's mother to the festival site.  During the helicopter ride, she saw the enormous crowd and instantly became extremely nervous and giddy, as Baez recalled.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book |last=Baez |first=Joan |title=And a Voice to Sing With |publisher=Summit Books |year=1989 |pages=163–166}}</ref> Initially, Joplin was eager to get on the stage and perform, but was repeatedly delayed as bands were contractually obliged to perform ahead of Joplin. Faced with a ten-hour wait after arriving at the backstage area, Joplin spent some of that time shooting heroin and drinking alcohol<ref name="amburn" /><ref name="caserta" /> with her friend and sometimes lover [[Peggy Caserta]] in a tent. Joplin pulled through, and engaged frequently with the crowd, asking them if they had everything they needed and if they were staying stoned. The audience cheered for an encore, to which Joplin replied and sang "Ball and Chain". [[Pete Townshend]], who performed with [[the Who]] later in the same morning after Joplin finished, witnessed her performance and said in his 2012 memoir, "She had been amazing at Monterey, but tonight she wasn't at her best, due, probably, to the long delay, and probably, too, to the amount of booze and heroin she'd consumed while she waited. But even Janis on an off-night was incredible."<ref>{{cite book |last=Townshend |first=Pete |title=Who I am: a memoir |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|year=2012 |pages=179}}</ref> Janis remained at Woodstock for the remainder of the festival. Starting at approximately 3:00&nbsp;a.m. on Monday, August 18, Joplin was among many Woodstock performers who stood in a circle behind [[Crosby, Stills & Nash]] during their performance.<ref name="Crosby 1988 161–162">{{cite book |last=Crosby |first=David |title=Long Time Gone |publisher=Doubleday|year=1988 |pages=161–162}}</ref> This information was published by [[David Crosby]] in 1988.<ref name="Crosby 1988 161–162" /> Later in the morning of August 18, Joplin and Joan Baez sat in [[Joe Cocker]]'s van and witnessed [[list of performances and events at Woodstock Festival#Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18|Hendrix's close-of-show performance]], according to Baez's memoir ''And a Voice to Sing With'' (1989).<ref name="auto1"/>

Joplin was unhappy with her performance, however, and her singing was not included, by her own insistence, in the 1970 documentary film or the soundtrack for ''[[Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More]]'' (although the 25th anniversary director's cut of ''[[Woodstock (film)|Woodstock]]'' includes her performance of "[[Work Me, Lord]]"). Joplin was arrested for using "[[profanity|vulgar and indecent language]]" on November 16, 1969, at the [[Curtis Hixon Hall]] in [[Tampa, Florida]] after yelling "Don't fuck with those people!" toward police officers doing crowd control, for which she was found guilty and fined $200 plus court costs.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Calise |first1=Gabrielle |title=How Janis Joplin was arrested in Tampa 50 years ago |url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2019/11/14/how-janis-joplin-was-arrested-in-tampa-50-years-ago/ |access-date=September 25, 2023 |date=November 14, 2019 |archive-date=September 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924105601/https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2019/11/14/how-janis-joplin-was-arrested-in-tampa-50-years-ago/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2019/11/14/how-janis-joplin-was-arrested-in-tampa-50-years-ago/|title=How Janis Joplin was arrested in Tampa 50 years ago|website=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref> In addition to Woodstock and her Tampa concert, in 1969 Joplin had problems at [[Madison Square Garden]]. Her publicist-turned-biographer Myra Friedman said, after Joplin's death, she had witnessed a duet Joplin sang with [[Tina Turner]] during the opening act (Ike and Tina Turner) for a [[Rolling Stones]] concert at the Garden on [[Thanksgiving Day]]. Friedman said Joplin was "so drunk, so stoned, so out of control, that she could have been an institutionalized psychotic rent by mania."<ref name="buried" /> An audio recording of the duet exists online.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ike & Tina Turner w/ Janis Joplin: "Land of a Thousand Dances" (Madison Square Garden, 11/27/1969) | date=May 27, 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_DX3QTq_I&t=99 |url-status=live |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530133925/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_DX3QTq_I&t=99 }}</ref> During another Garden concert where she had solo billing on December 19, some observers believed Joplin tried to incite the audience to riot.<ref name="buried" /> For part of this concert she was joined onstage by [[Johnny Winter]] and [[Paul Butterfield]]. Joplin told rock journalist David Dalton that Garden audiences watched and listened to "every note [she sang] with 'Is she gonna make it?' in their eyes."<ref name="dalton" />

Released in September 1969, the ''Kozmic Blues'' album was certified gold later that year but did not match the success of ''Cheap Thrills''.<ref name="craig" /> Reviews of the new group were mixed. Some music critics, including [[Ralph J. Gleason]] of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', were negative. Gleason wrote that the new band was a "drag" and Joplin should "scrap" her new band and "go right back to being a member of Big Brother ... (if they'll have her)."<ref name="scars" /> Other reviewers, such as reporter [[Carl Bernstein]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'', devoted entire articles to celebrating the singer's magic.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ghostsofdc.org/2012/04/18/janis-joplin-plays-merriweather-three-weeks-before-woodstock/ |title=Janis Joplin Plays Merriweather Three Weeks Before Woodstock |author=Tom |date=April 18, 2012 |website=Ghosts of DC |language=en-US |access-date=February 19, 2019 |archive-date=February 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220002923/https://ghostsofdc.org/2012/04/18/janis-joplin-plays-merriweather-three-weeks-before-woodstock/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Bernstein's review said that Joplin "has finally assembled a group of first-rate musicians with whom she is totally at ease and whose abilities complement the incredible range of her voice."<ref>{{cite news |title=Janis – All Together |last=Bernstein |first=Carl |date=July 26, 1969 |newspaper=The Washington Post and Times-Herald |page=E1}}</ref> Columbia Records released "[[Kozmic Blues]]" as a single, which peaked at number 41 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and a live rendition of "Raise Your Hand" was released in Germany and became a top ten hit there. Containing other hits like "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)", "[[To Love Somebody (song)|To Love Somebody]]", and "[[Little Girl Blue (song)|Little Girl Blue]]", ''I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!'' reached number five on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] soon after its release.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-got-dem-ol-kozmic-blues-again-mama!-mw0000650335/awards |website=AllMusic |title=I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! |access-date=January 18, 2016 |archive-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315045026/http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-got-dem-ol-kozmic-blues-again-mama!-mw0000650335/awards |url-status=live }}</ref>

====January–July 1970====
At the time of the June 1970 interview with Dalton, she had already performed in the Bay Area for what turned out to be the last time. Sam Andrew, the lead guitarist who had left Big Brother with Joplin in December 1968 to form her back-up band, quit in late summer 1969 and returned to Big Brother. At the end of the year, the Kozmic Blues Band broke up. Their final gig with Joplin was the one at Madison Square Garden with Winter and Butterfield.<ref name="scars" /><ref name="dalton">{{Cite book |title=Piece Of My Heart |first=David |last=Dalton |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-306-80446-5}}</ref> In February 1970, Joplin traveled to [[Brazil]], where she stopped her drug and alcohol use. She was accompanied on vacation there by her friend Linda Gravenites (wife of songwriter Nick Gravenites), who had designed Janis's stage costumes from 1967 to 1969. In Brazil, Joplin was romanced by a fellow American tourist named David (George) Niehaus, who was traveling around the world.<ref name="Joplin, Laura" /> Niehaus and Joplin were photographed by the press at [[Rio Carnival]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]].<ref name="dalton" /> Gravenites also took color photographs of the two during their Brazilian vacation. According to Joplin biographer Ellis Amburn, in Gravenites' snapshots they "look like a carefree, happy, healthy young couple having a tremendously good time."<ref name="amburn" />

''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine interviewed Joplin during an international phone call, quoting her: "I'm going into the jungle with a big bear of a beatnik named David Niehaus. I finally remembered I don't have to be on stage twelve months a year. I've decided to go and dig some other jungles for a couple of weeks."<ref name="amburn" /> Amburn added in 1992, "Janis was trying to kick heroin in Brazil, and one of the nicest things about David was that he wasn't into drugs."<ref name="amburn" /> When Joplin returned to the U.S., she began using heroin again. Her relationship with Niehaus soon ended because he witnessed her shooting drugs at her new home in [[Larkspur, California]]. The relationship was also complicated by her ongoing romantic relationship with Peggy Caserta, who also was an intravenous addict, and Joplin's refusal to take some time off and travel the world with him.<ref name="amburn" /><ref name="Garvin, Glenn" /> Prior to beginning a summer tour with a newly formed band, she performed in final appearances with Big Brother in a reunion at the [[Fillmore West]], in San Francisco, on April 4, 1970. Recordings from this concert were included on ''[[In Concert (Janis Joplin album)|Joplin in Concert]]'' released posthumously in 1972. She again appeared with Big Brother on April 12 at [[Winterland]], where she and Big Brother were reported to be in excellent form.<ref name="amburn" />

Around this time, she formed her new band, known for a short time as Main Squeeze, then renamed the [[Full Tilt Boogie Band]].<ref name="scars" /><ref name="amburn" /><ref name="buried" /> The band comprised mostly young Canadian musicians previously associated with [[Ronnie Hawkins]] and featured an organ, but no horn section. Joplin took a more active role in putting together the Full Tilt Boogie band than she had with her prior group. She was quoted as saying, "It's ''my'' band. Finally it's ''my'' band!"<ref name="scars" /> In May 1970, after performing under the name Main Squeeze at a [[Hells Angels]] event, the renamed Full Tilt Boogie Band began a nationwide tour. Joplin became very happy with her new group, which eventually received mostly positive feedback from both her fans and the critics.<ref name="scars" /> She performed with the band, billed as Main Squeeze, at a party for the [[Hells Angels]] at a venue in [[San Rafael, California]] on May 21, 1970, according to a web site maintained by Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew.<ref name="samandrew">{{cite web |url=http://samandrew.com/big-brother-history-part-six-1969-to-1972/ |title=Big Brother history, part six, 1969 to 1972 |first=Sam |last=Andrew |date=May 9, 2012 |website=samandrew.com |access-date=April 16, 2020 |archive-date=May 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517073440/http://samandrew.com/big-brother-history-part-six-1969-to-1972/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Andrew's web site quotes him as saying, "This will be the first time that Janis' old band and her new band will be at the same venue, so everyone is a little on edge."<ref name="samandrew" />

According to Joplin's biographer Ellis Amburn, Big Brother with its lead singer Nick Gravenites was the opening act at the party that was attended by 2,300 people.<ref name="amburn" /> The Hells Angels, who had known Joplin since 1966, paid her a fee of $240 to perform.<ref name="amburn" /> Gravenites and Sam Andrew (who had resumed playing guitar with Big Brother) differed in their opinions of her performance and how substance abuse affected it.<ref name="amburn" /> Gravenites described her singing as "stupendous", according to Amburn.<ref name="amburn" /> Amburn quoted Andrew twenty years later: "She was visibly deteriorating and she looked bloated. She was like a parody of what she was at her best. I put it down to her drinking too much and I felt a tinge of fear for her well-being. Her singing was real flabby, no edge at all."<ref name="amburn" /> Shortly thereafter, Joplin began wearing multi-colored feather boas in her hair. (She had not worn them at the May 21 Hells Angels party/<wbr>concert in San Rafael).<ref name="samandrew" /> By the time she began touring with Full Tilt Boogie, Joplin told people she was drug-free, but her drinking increased.<ref name="amburn" />

===''Pearl'' (July–October 1970)===
{{see also|Pearl (Janis Joplin album)}}
From June 28 to July 4, 1970, during the Festival Express tour, Joplin and Full Tilt Boogie performed alongside [[Buddy Guy]], [[The Band]], the [[Flying Burrito Brothers]], [[Ten Years After]], the [[Grateful Dead]], [[Delaney & Bonnie]], [[Eric Andersen]], and [[Ian & Sylvia]].<ref name="amburn" /> They played concerts in [[Toronto]], [[Winnipeg]], and [[Calgary]].<ref name="amburn" /><ref name="dalton" /> Footage of her performance of "Tell Mama" in Calgary became an [[MTV]] video in the early 1980s. Among Joplin's last public appearances were two broadcasts of ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]''. In her June 25, 1970, appearance, she announced that she would attend her ten-year high school class reunion. When asked if she had been popular in school, she admitted that when in high school, her schoolmates "laughed me out of class, out of town and out of the state".<ref name="cavett-janisinterview">{{Cite episode |title=Dick Cavett TV Interview (1970) |series=[[The Dick Cavett Show]] |air-date=August 3, 1970}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/joplin.htm |title=Janis Joplin: A Cry Cutting Through Time |first=Paul |last=Hendrickson |date=May 5, 1998 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-date=June 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621160450/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/joplin.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> On July 11, 1970, Full Tilt Boogie and Big Brother and the Holding Company both performed at the same concert in the San Diego Sports Arena,<ref name="Joplin's Shooting Star">{{cite web |url=http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/san-diego-july-1970/ |title=Joplin's Shooting Star |first=Jack |last=Doyle |date=December 7, 2009 |website=The Pop History Dig |access-date=May 27, 2018 |archive-date=July 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704054559/http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/san-diego-july-1970/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which was decades later renamed the [[Valley View Casino Center]]. Joplin sang with Full Tilt Boogie and appeared briefly onstage with Big Brother without singing, according to a July 13 review of the concert in the ''[[San Diego Union-Tribune|San Diego Union]]''. On August 7, 1970, a tombstone—jointly paid for by Joplin and Juanita Green, a registered nurse who as a child had done housework for [[Bessie Smith]]—was erected at Smith's previously unmarked grave.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/09/archives/bessie-smith-grave-unmarked-since-37-finally-gets-a-stone.html |title=Bessie Smith Grave, Unmarked Since '37, Finally Gets a Stone |date=August 9, 1970 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=54 |access-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-date=August 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816025842/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/09/archives/bessie-smith-grave-unmarked-since-37-finally-gets-a-stone.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Joplin had frequently cited Bessie Smith as a musical influence.<ref name="buried" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Albertson |first=Chris |date=1975 |title=Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan |page=277 |isbn=978-0-0287-0030-4}}</ref> The lead paragraph of an [[Associated Press]] story said Joplin and Green had "shared the cost of a stone for the 'Empress of the Blues,'" but, according to publicist/biographer Myra Friedman, Joplin and Green never met.<ref name="buried" /> During this time, she first performed "[[Mercedes Benz (song)|Mercedes Benz]]", a song partially inspired by a [[Michael McClure]] poem, that she had composed with fellow musician and friend [[Bob Neuwirth]] a very short time earlier which would be released on ''Pearl''.<ref name="Myers">{{cite news |last=Myers |first=Marc |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-behind-janis-joplins-mercedes-benz-1436282817 |title=The Story Behind Janis Joplin's 'Mercedes Benz' |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=July 7, 2015 |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210081102/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-behind-janis-joplins-mercedes-benz-1436282817 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Myra Friedman's account,<ref name="buried" /> Joplin performed two shows at the Capitol Theatre, the first of which was attended by actors [[Geraldine Page]] and her husband [[Rip Torn]].<ref name="buried" /> Between the shows, at a "gin mill" [Friedman's words] close to this concert venue, Joplin and Neuwirth penned the lyrics to the song<ref name="buried" /> and she performed it at the second show, according to Friedman.<ref name="buried" />

Neuwirth was quoted by ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' in 2015: "Around 7 p.m., after the Capitol sound check, we had a couple of hours to kill before [acts that opened for Joplin] Seatrain and Runt finished their sets. So the four of us [Joplin, Neuwirth, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn] walked to a bar about three minutes away called Vahsen's [at 30 Broad Street in Port Chester]."<ref name="Myers"/> While in Vahsen's, "Janis came up with words for the first verse. I was in charge of writing them down on bar napkins with a ballpoint pen. She came up with the second verse [for "Mercedes Benz"], too, about a color TV. I suggested words here and there, and came up with the third verse—about asking the Lord to buy us a night on the town and another round."<ref>{{cite news |last=Myers |first=Marc |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-behind-janis-joplins-mercedes-benz-1436282817 |title=The Story Behind Janis Joplin's 'Mercedes Benz' |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=July 7, 2015 |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210081102/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-behind-janis-joplins-mercedes-benz-1436282817 |url-status=live }}</ref> Joplin's last public performance with the Full Tilt Boogie Band took place on August 12, 1970, at the [[Harvard Stadium]] in Boston. ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'' gave the performance a positive, front-page review, despite the fact that Full Tilt Boogie had performed with makeshift amplifiers after their regular sound equipment was stolen in Boston.<ref name="buried" /> Joplin attended her high school reunion on August 14, accompanied by Neuwirth, road manager [[John Byrne Cooke]], and sister Laura, but it was reportedly an unhappy experience for her.<ref name="cavett">{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-miller/happy-birthday-janis-jop_b_39055.html |title=Happy Birthday, Janis Joplin |work=HuffPost |date=January 19, 2007 |first=Danny |last=Miller |access-date=August 23, 2008 |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724150628/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-miller/happy-birthday-janis-jop_b_39055.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Joplin denigrated Port Arthur and the classmates who had humiliated her a decade earlier.<ref name="scars" />

[[File:Janis Joplin performing.jpg|thumb|upright|Janis Joplin performing at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island in July 1968<ref name="buried" />]]
Joplin checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood on August 24, 1970,<ref>''[[Los Angeles Herald Examiner]]'' October 5, 1970, front page.</ref> near [[Sunset Sound Recorders]],<ref name="amburn" /> where she began rehearsing and recording her album. During the sessions, Joplin continued a relationship with [[Seth Morgan (novelist)|Seth Morgan]], a 21-year-old [[UC Berkeley]] student, cocaine dealer, and future novelist who had visited her new home in Larkspur in July and August.<ref name="scars" /><ref name="amburn" /><ref name="caserta" /> She and Morgan were engaged to be married in early September,<ref name="jacobson" /> although he visited Sunset Sound Recorders for just eight of Joplin's many rehearsals and sessions.<ref name="amburn" /> During late August, September, and early October 1970, Joplin and her band rehearsed and recorded a new album in Los Angeles with producer [[Paul A. Rothchild]], best known for his lengthy relationship with [[The Doors]]. Although Joplin died before all the tracks were fully completed, there was enough usable material to compile an LP. The posthumous ''[[Pearl (Janis Joplin album)|Pearl]]'' (1971) became the biggest-selling album of her career<ref name="craig" /> and featured her biggest hit single, a cover of [[Kris Kristofferson]] and [[Fred Foster]]'s "[[Me and Bobby McGee]]"<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://1mquotes.com/en/janis-joplin |title=Janis Joplin |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411034913/http://www.billboard.com/artist/304207/janis-joplin/chart |archive-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref> (Kristofferson had previously been one of Joplin's lovers, though the song was taught to her by Neuwirth).<ref>Anthony DeCurtis, ''Rolling Stone'', September 30, 1999</ref> The opening track, "Move Over", was written by Joplin, reflecting the way that she felt men treated women in relationships.

Peggy Caserta claimed in her book, ''Going Down With Janis'' (1973), that she and Joplin had decided mutually in April 1970 to stay away from each other to avoid enabling each other's drug use.<ref name="caserta" /> Caserta, a former [[Delta Air Lines]] flight attendant<ref name="caserta" /> and owner of ''Mnasidika'',<ref name="levistrauss/haight-st">{{cite web |last1=Panek |first1=Tracey |title=How Haight St. Hippie Style Became a Levi's Sensation |url=https://www.levistrauss.com/2019/11/22/how-haight-st-hippie-style-became-a-levis-sensation/ |website=Unzipped |publisher=Levi Strauss & Co |access-date=December 3, 2023 |date=November 22, 2019 |archive-date=December 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203224326/https://www.levistrauss.com/2019/11/22/how-haight-st-hippie-style-became-a-levis-sensation/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="phil.2013.0017">{{cite journal |last1=Schlesier |first1=Renate |title=Atthis, Gyrinno, and Other Hetairai: Female Personal Names in Sappho's Poetry |journal=Philologus |date=December 1, 2013 |volume=157 |issue=2 |pages=199–222 |doi=10.1515/phil.2013.0017 |s2cid=163799202 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/phil.2013.0017/html?lang=en |access-date=December 3, 2023 |archive-date=December 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203195158/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/phil.2013.0017/html?lang=en |url-status=live | issn=0031-7985 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> one of the first clothing boutiques in the [[Haight Ashbury]],<ref name="caserta" /> said in the book that by September 1970, she was smuggling cannabis throughout California<ref name="caserta" /> and had checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel because it attracted drug users.<ref name="caserta" /> During Joplin's stay at the Landmark,<ref name="caserta" /> she learned of Caserta's presence at the Landmark from a heroin dealer who made deliveries there.<ref name="caserta" /> Joplin begged Caserta for heroin,<ref name="caserta" /> and when Caserta refused to provide it, Joplin reportedly admonished her by saying, "Don't think if you can get it, I can't get it."<ref name="caserta" /> Joplin's publicist Myra Friedman was unaware during Joplin's lifetime that this had happened. Later, while Friedman was working on her book ''Buried Alive'', she determined that the time frame of the Joplin–Caserta encounter was one week before Jimi Hendrix's death.<ref name="buried" /> Within a few days, Joplin became a regular customer of the same heroin dealer who had been supplying Caserta.<ref name="caserta" />

====September–October 1970====
[[File:Janis Joplin seated 1970.JPG|thumb|Joplin photographed by [[Jim Marshall (photographer)|Jim Marshall]] in 1969,<ref name="dalton" /> one year before her death]]
Joplin's manager [[Albert Grossman]] and his assistant/publicist Friedman had staged an [[intervention (counseling)|intervention]] with Joplin the previous winter while Joplin was in New York.<ref name="buried" /> Grossman and Friedman knew during Joplin's lifetime that her friend Caserta, whom Friedman had met during the New York sessions for ''Cheap Thrills''<ref name="caserta" /> and on later occasions, used heroin.<ref name="buried" /> In September 1970, Friedman assumed Caserta had been out of Joplin's life for a while.<ref name="buried" /> Neither Friedman nor Grossman visited California.<ref name="buried" /> When Joplin was not at Sunset Sound Recorders, she liked to drive her Porsche over the speed limit "on the winding part of Sunset Blvd.", according to a statement made by her attorney Robert Gordon in 1995 at the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] induction ceremony.<ref>{{YouTube|VJyQ-nxo-LY|Robert Gordon can be heard saying at the 1995 ceremony that at the end of Joplin's life she enjoyed driving her Porsche over the speed limit "on the winding part of Sunset Blvd."}}</ref> Friedman wrote that the only Full Tilt Boogie member who rode as her passenger, Ken Pearson, often hesitated to join her,<ref name="buried" /> though he did on the night she died.<ref name="buried" /> He was not interested in using hard drugs.<ref name="buried" /> On September 26, 1970, Joplin recorded vocals for "Half Moon" and "[[Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song)|Cry Baby]]".<ref name="smironne.free.fr">{{cite web |url=http://smironne.free.fr/JANIS/JOPLIN/session.html |title=Janis Joplin Sessionography |website=smironne.free.fr |access-date=May 17, 2012 |archive-date=November 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115045807/http://smironne.free.fr/JANIS/JOPLIN/session.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The session ended with Joplin, organist Ken Pearson, and drummer Clark Pierson making a special one-minute recording as a birthday gift to [[John Lennon]]<ref name="smironne.free.fr" /><ref name="youtube.com">{{YouTube|4nM65_ut05s|Segment in which Dick Cavett, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono discuss Janis Joplin starts at 1 minute 35 seconds}}</ref> with the [[Dale Evans]] composition "[[Happy Trails (song)|Happy Trails]]" as part of the greeting.<ref name="youtube.com" />

On October 1, 1970, Joplin completed her last recording, "Mercedes Benz", which was recorded in a single take.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.superseventies.com/joplinjanis.html |title=''Pearl'' album by Janis Joplin |website=SuperSeventies.com |access-date=December 18, 2021 |archive-date=June 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617065426/https://www.superseventies.com/joplinjanis.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On Saturday, October 3, Joplin visited Sunset Sound Recorders<ref name="amburn" /> to listen to the instrumental track for [[Nick Gravenites]]'s song "Buried Alive in the Blues", which the band had recorded earlier that day.<ref name="on the road" /> She and Paul Rothchild agreed she would record the vocal the following day.<ref name="dalton" /><ref name="Joplin, Laura" /><ref name="on the road" /> Sometime on Saturday, she learned that her boyfriend Seth Morgan had met other women at a [[Marin County, California]], restaurant, and invited them to her home.<ref name="buried" /> People at Sunset Sound Recorders overheard Joplin expressing anger about Morgan's actions,<ref name="buried" /> as well as joy about the progress of the sessions.<ref name="buried" /> Joplin and Ken Pearson later left the studio together and she drove him in her Porsche<ref name="buried" /> to the West Hollywood venue called [[Barney's Beanery]] where they met Bennett Glotzer, a business partner of Joplin's manager Albert Grossman.<ref name="on the road" /> After midnight, she drove Ken Pearson and a male fan from Barney's Beanery to the Landmark Motor Hotel.  During the ride, the fan repeatedly asked her about her singing style, and "she mostly ignored him," as Pearson told Myra Friedman.<ref name="buried" />  After arriving at the Landmark, where she and Pearson were staying in separate rooms,<ref name="buried" /> they prepared to part in the lobby of the Landmark, when she expressed a fear, possibly in jest, that he and the other Full Tilt Boogie musicians might decide to stop making music with her.   Then they separated and went to their rooms.<ref name="buried" />

====Death====

On Sunday evening, October 4, 1970, Joplin was found dead on the floor of her room at the Landmark Motor Hotel by her road manager and close friend John Byrne Cooke.<ref name=Cooke>[[John Byrne Cooke|Cooke, John Byrne]].''On the Road with Janis Joplin''. New York: [[Berkley Books]], 2014.</ref> Alcohol was present in the room. Newspapers reported that no other drugs or [[Drug paraphernalia|paraphernalia]] were present.<ref name=ergdiapt>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P6lVAAAAIBAJ&pg=4793%2C831257 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=Oregon |agency=Associated Press |title=Rock singer found dead in apartment |date=October 5, 1970 |page=5A |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009065221/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P6lVAAAAIBAJ&pg=4793,831257 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=bbtrv>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AQBYAAAAIBAJ&pg=4705%2C3605084 |work=The Bulletin |location=Bend, Oregon |agency=United Press International |title=Top rock vocalist Janis Joplin dies |date=October 5, 1970 |page=1 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010231356/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AQBYAAAAIBAJ&pg=4705,3605084 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to a 1983 book authored by Joseph DiMona and Los Angeles County coroner [[Thomas Noguchi]], evidence of narcotics was removed from the scene by a friend of Joplin and later put back after the person realized that an autopsy was going to reveal that narcotics were in her system. The book adds that prior to Joplin's death, Noguchi had investigated other fatal drug overdoses in Los Angeles where friends believed they were doing favors for decedents by removing evidence of narcotics, but then "thought things over" and returned to put back the evidence.<ref>[[Thomas Noguchi|Noguchi, Thomas]] and DiMona, Joseph. ''Coroner''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.</ref> Noguchi performed an [[autopsy]] on Joplin and determined the cause of death to be a heroin [[drug overdose|overdose]], possibly compounded by alcohol.<ref name="buried" /><ref>{{cite news |first=Derk |last=Richardson |title=Books in Brief |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |date=April–May 1986 <!--|access-date=December 14, 2009-->}}</ref>

John Byrne Cooke believed Joplin had obtained heroin much more potent than what she and other L.A. heroin users had received on previous occasions, as was indicated by overdoses of several of her dealer's other customers during the same weekend.<ref>[[John Byrne Cooke|Cooke, John Byrne]]. ''On the Road with Janis Joplin''. New York: Berkley Books, 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Janis Joplin: A Performance Diary 1966–1970 |first=John |last=Cooke |author-link=John Byrne Cooke |publisher=Acid Test |isbn=978-1-888358-11-7 |page=126 |year=1997 |url=https://archive.org/details/janisjoplinperfo00cook/page/126}}</ref> Her death was ruled [[accidental death|accidental]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Celebs/joplin,%20janis_report.pdf |title=Janis Joplin autopsy report |access-date=June 28, 2018 |publisher=Autopsyfiles |archive-date=June 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613113905/http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Celebs/joplin,%20janis_report.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Janis Joplin - The Peninsula Times Tribune (1970).jpg|thumb|left|Newspaper clipping, October 5, 1970]]

Both Peggy Caserta, Joplin's close friend, and [[Seth Morgan (novelist)|Seth Morgan]], Joplin's fiancé, failed to meet Joplin on Oct. 2, the Friday immediately before her death; Joplin had been expecting both of them to keep her company that night. According to Caserta, Joplin was saddened neither of her friends came to the Landmark as promised.<ref name="amburn" /><ref name="caserta" /> During the 24 hours Joplin lived after this disappointment, Caserta did not call to explain why she failed to show up.<ref name="caserta" /> Caserta admitted to waiting until late Saturday night to dial the Landmark Motel [[Telephone switchboard|switchboard]], only to learn that Joplin had instructed the desk clerk not to accept any incoming calls for her after midnight.<ref name="caserta" /> Morgan did speak to Joplin via telephone within the 24 hours before her death, but little is known about that call.<ref name="amburn" /> She used a phone at Sunset Sound Recorders where her colleagues ("there were perhaps twenty to twenty-five people present," wrote biographer Myra Friedman)<ref name="buried" /> noticed that whatever Morgan said to her made her very angry.<ref name="buried" /><ref name="amburn" />

Peggy Caserta has insisted Joplin's death was not an accidental overdose, but rather a result of a head gash suffered after the "hourglass heel" of her slingback sandal caught in the shag carpet, causing her to lose her balance. Caserta did concede, however, that drugs and/or alcohol may have played a role in hastening Joplin's death that night.<ref name="vulture.com" /> Joplin was [[Cremation|cremated]] at [[Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary]] in Los Angeles, and her ashes were scattered from a plane into the [[Pacific Ocean]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-janis-joplin/ |first=Karen 'Gilly' |last=Laney |title=10 things you didn't know about Janis Joplin |date=January 19, 2012 |access-date=June 28, 2018 |publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628234005/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-janis-joplin/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/janis-joplin-wake/ |first=Frank |last=Mastropolo |title=That time Janis Joplin paid for her own wake |date=October 26, 2015 |access-date=June 28, 2018 |publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock |archive-date=August 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824033850/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/janis-joplin-wake/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==<span class="anchor" id="Sexuality"></span><span class="anchor" id="Sexuality and relationships"></span><span class="anchor" id="Same-sex relationships"></span><span class="anchor" id="Romance"></span>Personal life==
Joplin's significant relationships with men included ones with Peter de Blanc,<ref name="buried" /><ref name="Willett 55" /><ref name="stthomassource.com" /><ref name="ccwhois.org" /><ref name="Joplin, Laura" /> [[Country Joe McDonald]] (who wrote the song "Janis" at Joplin's request),<ref name="Cabral">{{cite book |last=Cabral |first=Ron |title=Country Joe and Me |publisher=[[AuthorHouse]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-4184-0642-4}}</ref> David (George) Niehaus,<ref name="amburn" /><ref name="dalton" /><ref name="Joplin, Laura" /><ref name="Garvin, Glenn">{{cite news |url=https://www.janisjoplin.net/news/bandmate-recalls-janis-joplins-big-appetite-in-tv-doc/ |title=Bandmate recalls Janis Joplin's 'big appetite' in TV doc |first=Glenn |last=Garvin |newspaper=Miami Herald |date=November 6, 2007 |via=JanisJoplin.net |access-date=December 30, 2011 |archive-date=May 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514214424/https://www.janisjoplin.net/news/bandmate-recalls-janis-joplins-big-appetite-in-tv-doc/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Kris Kristofferson]],<ref name="amburn" /><ref name="buried" /> and [[Seth Morgan (novelist)|Seth Morgan]] (from July 1970 until her death, at which time they were allegedly engaged).<ref name="Seth Morgan's Last Ride">{{cite journal |url=https://www.janisjoplin.net/news/seth-morgans-last-ride/ |title=Seth Morgan's Last Ride |date=February 1, 1991 |journal=Esquire |via=JanisJoplin.net |access-date=April 16, 2020 |archive-date=April 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423182000/https://www.janisjoplin.net/news/seth-morgans-last-ride |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Blues For Janis |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=October 19, 1970 |page=63}}</ref> She also had relationships with women. During her first stint in San Francisco in 1963, Joplin met and briefly lived with Jae Whitaker, a woman whom she had met while playing pool at the bar Gino & Carlo in [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]]. Whitaker broke off their relationship because of Joplin's hard drug use and sexual relationships with other people.<ref>{{cite book |date=2015 |title=Janis: Little Girl Blue}}</ref> Whitaker was first identified by name in connection with Joplin in 1999, when Alice Echols' biography ''Scars of Sweet Paradise'' was published.<ref name="scars" />

Joplin had an on-again-off-again romantic relationship with [[Peggy Caserta]].<ref name="amburn" /><ref name="Garvin, Glenn" /><ref name=":0" /> They first met in November 1966 when Big Brother performed at The Matrix in San Francisco. Caserta was one of 15 people in the audience;<ref name="caserta" /> at the time, she ran ''Mnasidika'',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kruger |first1=Charles |title=Review: 'Out Of Site Haight Ashbury': A Performance Driven Queer History Tour from EyeZen Presents (*****) |url=https://theatrestorm.com/2021/06/16/review-out-of-site-haight-ashbury-a-performance-driven-queer-history-tour-from-eyezen-presents/ |website=TheatreStorm |access-date=August 7, 2022 |language=en |date=June 17, 2021 |archive-date=September 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928151756/https://theatrestorm.com/2021/06/16/review-out-of-site-haight-ashbury-a-performance-driven-queer-history-tour-from-eyezen-presents/ |url-status=live }}</ref> a clothing boutique in the [[Haight Ashbury]]. Approximately a month after the concert, Joplin visited Caserta's boutique and said she could not afford to buy a pair of $5 jeans for sale, asking to make a 50 cent down payment.<ref name="caserta" /> Caserta was amazed such a talented singer could not afford $5, and gave Joplin a pair for free.<ref name="The redemption of Peggy Caserta">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fugues.com/2020/10/01/the-redemption-of-peggy-caserta/|title=The redemption of Peggy Caserta|date=October 2020|access-date=July 12, 2021|archive-date=July 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725090354/https://www.fugues.com/2020/10/01/the-redemption-of-peggy-caserta/|url-status=live}}</ref> Their friendship was [[Platonic love|platonic]] for more than a year.<ref name="caserta" /> Before it became romantic, Caserta was in love with Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew, and sometime during the first half of 1968 traveled from San Francisco to New York to be with him.<ref name="caserta" /> He did not want a serious relationship, and Joplin sympathized with Caserta's disappointment.<ref name="caserta" /> The ''Woodstock'' concert film includes 37 seconds of Joplin and Caserta walking together before they reached the tent where Joplin waited for her turn to perform. By the time the festival took place in August 1969, both were intravenous heroin addicts.

<!-- Do we really need all of this detail about an event that may not have even happened? -->According to Caserta's book ''Going Down With Janis'', which Caserta has since disowned, Joplin introduced her to her boyfriend Seth Morgan in Joplin's room at the Landmark Motor Hotel on September 29, 1970. Caserta "had seen him around" in San Francisco but had not met him.<ref name="caserta" /> At some point, an agreement was made for a [[threesome]] to take place the following Friday although Caserta later made alternate plans. Morgan made alternate plans, believing Caserta would be with Joplin that evening. Each one was unaware the other had bowed out.<ref name="vulture.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/peggy-caserta-janis-joplins-love-comes-clean-for-real.html|title=Peggy Caserta, Janis Joplin's Love, Comes Clean (For Real This Time)|date=August 2, 2018|access-date=July 12, 2021|archive-date=August 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801040954/https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/peggy-caserta-janis-joplins-love-comes-clean-for-real.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The day after Joplin introduced Caserta to Morgan, Caserta saw Joplin briefly when Caserta accommodated her new Los Angeles friend, 19-year-old Debbie Nuciforo.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/deborah-nuciforo-obituary?pid=1000000176388939 |title=Deborah Nuciforo Obituary – Palm Springs, California |date=November 7, 2015 |website=Legacy.com |access-date=July 31, 2017 |archive-date=August 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809043314/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/deborah-nuciforo-obituary?pid=1000000176388939 |url-status=live }}</ref> Nuciforo was an aspiring rock drummer who wanted to meet Joplin<ref name="caserta" /> and was high on heroin at the time. The meeting of the three women was reportedly brief and unpleasant. Caserta suspected the reason for Joplin's foul mood was that Morgan had abandoned her earlier that day after having spent less than 24 hours with her.<ref name="caserta" />

Caserta did not see nor communicate by phone with Joplin again, although she later claimed she had tried to reach Joplin at the Landmark Motor Hotel and Sunset Sound Recorders. Caserta and Morgan lost touch with each other; each had independently made plans for Friday, October 2. Joplin mentioned her disappointment over both friends bailing out of their ''[[ménage à trois]]'' to her drug dealer on Saturday while he was selling her the dose of heroin that killed her, as Caserta later learned from the dealer.<ref name="amburn" /><ref name="caserta" /> Biographer Myra Friedman commented in her original version of ''Buried Alive'' (1973):<ref>{{cite book |first=Myra |last=Friedman |title=Buried Alive |date=1973 |edition=1st (Hardback)}}</ref>
<blockquote>Given the near-infinite potentials of infancy, it is really impossible to make generalizations about what lies behind sexual practices. This, however, is probable: to become clearly [[homosexual]], to make the choice that one honestly prefers relations with one's own sex, no matter the origins of such preference, requires a certain integration, a stability of psychic development, a tidiness of personality organization. The ridicule and the humiliation that took place at that most delicate period in [Joplin's] early teens, her own inability to surmount the obstacles to regular growth, devastated her a great deal more than most people comprehended. Janis was not heir to an ego so cohesive as to permit her an identity one way or the other. She was, as [the psychiatric social worker she saw regularly in [[Beaumont, Texas]] in 1965 and 1966] Mr. [Bernard] Giarritano put it [in an interview with Friedman], "diffused" -- spewing, splattering, splaying all over, without a center to hold. That had as much to do with her original use of drugs [before she first met Giarritano] as did the critical component of guilt and its multiplicity of sources above and beyond the contribution made by her relationships with women. Were she so simple as the lesbians wished her to be or so free as her associates imagined!<ref name="buried" /></blockquote>

[[Kim France]] reported in her May 2, 1999, ''[[The New York Times]]'' article, "Nothin' Left to Lose": "Once she became famous, Joplin cursed like a [[truck driver]], did not believe in wearing undergarments, was rarely seen without her bottle of [[Southern Comfort]] and delighted in playing the role of [[sexual predator]]."<ref>{{cite news |first=Kim |last=France |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/02/reviews/990502.02francet.html |date=May 2, 1999 |title=Nothin' Left to Lose: Janis Joplin proved that a female rocker could self-destruct as quickly as a man |work=The New York Times |access-date=August 6, 2016 |archive-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215135010/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/02/reviews/990502.02francet.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On July 11, 1970, Joplin made a revealing statement about her sexuality to her friend Richard Hundgen, the [[Grateful Dead]]'s San Francisco-based road manager, whom she had known since 1966. When Joplin and Hundgen were offstage during a San Diego gig for both Full Tilt Boogie and Big Brother and the Holding Company, she said the following that he later repeated to Myra Friedman:<ref name="buried" />

<blockquote>I hear a rumor that somebody in San Francisco is spreading stories that I'm a [[dyke (slang)|dyke]]. You go back there and find out who it is and tell them that Janis says she's gotten it on with a couple of thousand cats in her life and a few hundred chicks and see what they can do with ''that''!<ref name="buried" /></blockquote>

Joplin's [[body art]], with a wristlet and a small heart on her left breast by the San Francisco tattoo artist [[Lyle Tuttle]], marked an early moment in the popular culture's acceptance of tattoos as art.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Deb |last=Acord |title=Who knew: Mommy has a tattoo |newspaper=[[Portland Press Herald]] |date=November 10, 2006}}</ref> Another trademark was her flamboyant hair styles, which often included colored streaks and accessories such as scarves, beads and feathers.

==Legacy==
===Legacy in the 1970s===
Joplin's death in October 1970 at age 27 stunned her fans and shocked the music world, especially when coupled with the deaths of [[Canned Heat]] singer [[Alan Wilson (musician)|Alan Wilson]] a month earlier, and rock icon [[Jimi Hendrix]] 16 days earlier, both aged 27. All three musicians performed at the two biggest rock festivals of the 1960s: [[Monterey International Pop Festival|Monterey Pop Festival]] and [[Woodstock]]. (This would later cause some people to attribute significance to the death of musicians at the age of 27, as celebrated in the "[[27 Club]]".) Music historian Tom Moon wrote that Joplin had "a devastatingly original voice", music columnist [[Jon Pareles]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that Joplin as an artist was "overpowering and deeply vulnerable" and author [[Megan Terry]] said that Joplin was the female version of [[Elvis Presley]] in her ability to captivate an audience.<ref name="Joplin's Shooting Star" /> Joplin was noted for her powerful [[mezzo-soprano]] vocals with a distinctive rock and roll rasping vocal quality, as well as her "electric" stage presence.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/janis-joplin/biography |title=Janis Joplin Biography |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |first=Mark |last=Kemp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220092845/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/janis-joplin/biography |archive-date=February 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Janis-Joplin |title=Janis Joplin |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |first=Gillian G. |last=Gaar |date=February 9, 2000 |access-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-date=March 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324073936/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Janis-Joplin |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://rockhall.com/exhibits/featured-collections/janis-joplin/ |title=Janis Joplin Collection |work=[[Rock & Roll Hall of Fame]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312055213/https://rockhall.com/exhibits/featured-collections/janis-joplin/ |archive-date=March 12, 2012}}</ref> Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "[[Piece of My Heart]]", "[[Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song)|Cry Baby]]", "[[Down on Me (traditional song)|Down on Me]]", "[[Ball and Chain (Big Mama Thornton song)|Ball and Chain]]", and "[[Summertime (George Gershwin song)|Summertime]]", as well as her original song "[[Mercedes Benz (song)|Mercedes Benz]]", which was her final recording.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/the-10-best-janis-joplin-songs/mercedes-benz/ |date=September 23, 2015 |title=The 10 best Janis Joplin songs |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=April 5, 2018 |archive-date=June 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621044737/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/the-10-best-janis-joplin-songs/mercedes-benz/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/janis-joplin-songs/ |title=Top 10 Janis Joplin Songs |first=Michael |last=Gallucci |work=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=January 19, 2013 |access-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-date=May 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504175446/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/janis-joplin-songs/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

A book about Joplin by her publicist Myra Friedman titled ''Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin'' (1973)<ref>{{cite book |title=Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin |first=Myra |last=Friedman |date=1974 |url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/buried-alive-myra-friedman/1100620841|isbn=978-0-6880-0160-5 |publisher=HarperCollins |access-date=August 4, 2016 |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806105632/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/buried-alive-myra-friedman/1100620841 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was excerpted in many newspapers. At the same time, Peggy Caserta's memoir, ''Going Down With Janis'' (1973),<ref>{{cite book |title=Going down with Janis |last1=Caserta |first1=Peggy |author-link1=Peggy Caserta |last2=Knapp |first2=Dan |date=1974 |isbn=978-0-4401-3194-6 |publisher=Random House |url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/going-down-with-janis-peggy-caserta/1018324813?ean=9780440131946 |access-date=August 4, 2016 |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806112811/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/going-down-with-janis-peggy-caserta/1018324813?ean=9780440131946 |url-status=live }}</ref> attracted much attention; its provocative title is a reference to Caserta's claim that she had engaged in oral sex with Joplin while they were high on heroin in September 1970. The description provided by Dan Knapp, Caserta's co-author whom she denounced decades later,<ref name="vulture.com" /><ref name="The redemption of Peggy Caserta" /> repelled many people in 1973 when few books or filmed interviews of Joplin or her loved ones were accessible to the public. Joplin's bandmate [[Sam Andrew]] described Caserta as "halfway between a [[groupie]] and a friend" in an interview with writer [[Ellis Amburn]].<ref name="amburn" /> Soon after the 1973 publication of ''Going Down With Janis'', Joplin's friends learned that graphic descriptions of sexual acts and intravenous drug use were not the only portions of the book that would haunt them.

According to Kim Chappell, a close friend of Caserta and Joplin, Caserta's book angered the Los Angeles heroin dealer whom she had described in detail in her book, including the make and model of his car.<ref name="amburn" /> According to Amburn, in 1973, a "carful of dope dealers" visited a Los Angeles lesbian bar that Caserta had been frequenting.<ref name="amburn" /> Chappell, who was in the alley behind the bar, stated: "I was stabbed because, when Peggy's book came out, her dealer, the same one who'd given Janis her last fix, didn't like it that he was referred to and was out to get Peggy. He couldn't find her, so he went for her lover. When they realized who I was, they felt that my death would also hit Peggy, and so they stabbed me."<ref name="amburn" /> Despite being "stabbed three times in the chest, puncturing both lungs," Chappell eventually recovered.<ref name="amburn" />

According to Joplin's biographers, Caserta was among many friends of Joplin who did not become clean and sober until a long time after Joplin's death, while others died from overdoses.<ref name="The redemption of Peggy Caserta" /><ref name="vulture.com" /><ref name="scars" /><ref name="buried" /> Although the wife of Big Brother guitarist James Gurley, who was Joplin's close friend, died from a heroin overdose in 1969, devastating Joplin,<ref name="amburn" /> Gurley himself did not become clean and sober until 1984.<ref name="amburn" /> Caserta survived "a near-fatal OD in December 1995", wrote [[Alice Echols]].<ref name="scars" /> On January 13, 2000, Caserta appeared during a segment about Joplin on ''[[20/20 (US television series)|20/20]]''.<ref>{{YouTube|xyTESUQWfV0|20/20 segment entitled "Downtown" originally broadcast on the ABC network on January 13, 2000}}</ref> In 2018, Caserta denounced ''Going Down With Janis'' as the pornographic fantasy of Dan Knapp, her co-author, and largely unreliable. During that year, the public had its first access to her own story via a memoir she co-wrote with Maggie Falcon titled ''I Ran into Some Trouble''.  It describes a long, friendly relationship with Joplin that only occasionally featured sexuality.<ref name="vulture.com" /><ref name="The redemption of Peggy Caserta" /><ref name="978-1-948018-08-1">{{cite book |last1=Caserta |first1=Peggy |author-link1=Peggy Caserta |last2=Falcon |first2=Maggie |title=I Ran Into Some Trouble |date=August 8, 2018 |publisher=Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing |isbn=978-1-948018-08-1 |language=en}}</ref>

[[The Mamas & the Papas]]' song "Pearl" (1971), from their album ''[[People Like Us (The Mamas & the Papas album)|People Like Us]]'', was a tribute to Joplin. [[Leonard Cohen]]'s song "[[New Skin for the Old Ceremony#Songs|Chelsea Hotel#2]]" (1974) is about Joplin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/bbctrans.htm |title=Leonard Cohen on BBC Radio |work=webheights.net |archive-url=https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090707111733/http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/bbctrans.htm |url-status=dead |date=1994-07-08 |archive-date=July 7, 2009 |access-date=October 2, 2025}}</ref> Lyricist [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]] has commented that [[Jerry Garcia]]'s "Birdsong", from his first solo album, ''[[Garcia (album)|Garcia]]'' (1972), is about Joplin and the end of her suffering through death.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/mt0011923342 |title=Birdsong |work=AllMusic |access-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308021612/https://www.allmusic.com/song/mt0011923342 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Box of Rain: Lyrics 1965–1993 |first=Robert |last=Hunter |publisher=Penguin Books |date=1993}}</ref> [[Mimi Farina]]'s composition "In the Quiet Morning", most famously covered by [[Joan Baez]] on her album ''[[Come from the Shadows]]'' (1972), was a tribute to Joplin.<ref>Performed by [[Joan Baez]] in her 1972 album ''[[Come from the Shadows]]''. Baez wrote the song "Blessed Are ... ," from her 1971 album of the same name, as a tribute to Joplin.</ref> Another song by Baez, "Children of the Eighties", mentioned Joplin. A [[Serge Gainsbourg]]-penned French language song by English singer [[Jane Birkin]], "Ex fan des sixties" (1978), references Joplin along with other disappeared "idols", such as [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Brian Jones]] and [[Marc Bolan]]. When Joplin was alive, [[Country Joe McDonald]] released a song called "Janis" on his band's album ''[[I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die]]'' (1967). In her memoir ''[[Just Kids]]'', [[Patti Smith]] mentions writing a song for Joplin and singing it to her one night at the [[Hotel Chelsea|Chelsea Hotel]], where both were living at the time. The song, called "Lullaby (I Was Working Real Hard)", was never recorded by Joplin but eventually appeared on Smith's Live At The Bottom Line, a performance from 1975.

The film ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]'' (1979) is loosely based on Joplin's life. Originally planned to be titled ''Pearl''—Joplin's nickname and the title of her last album—the film was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story.<ref name=guardian>{{cite news |first=Priya |last=Elan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/07/janis-joplin-biopic |title=Is the Janis Joplin biopic finally going to be filmed? Don't hold your breath |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=August 7, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114050514/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/07/janis-joplin-biopic |archive-date=January 14, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie And Video Guide |first=Leonard |last=Maltin |author-link=Leonard Maltin |publisher=[[Plume (publishing)|Plume]] |year= 2002 |isbn=978-0-452-28329-9}}</ref> [[Bette Midler]] won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture—Female and earned nominations for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]], the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.

===Legacy in 1980s and 1990s===
In 1988, on what would have been Joplin's 45th birthday, the Janis Joplin Memorial, with an original gold, multi-image sculpture of Joplin by [[Douglas Clark (sculptor)|Douglas Clark]], was dedicated during a ceremony in Port Arthur, Texas.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/21/us/port-arthur-journal-town-forgives-the-past-and-honors-janis-joplin.html |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Peter |last=Applebome |author-link=Peter Applebome |title=Port Arthur Journal; Town Forgives the Past And Honors Janis Joplin |date=January 21, 1988 |access-date=February 9, 2017 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904071358/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/21/us/port-arthur-journal-town-forgives-the-past-and-honors-janis-joplin.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1992, the first major biography of Joplin in two decades, ''Love, Janis'', authored by her younger sister Laura Joplin, was published. In an interview, Laura stated that Joplin enjoyed being on the ''[[Dick Cavett]] Show'', that Joplin had difficulties with some, but not all, people at Thomas Jefferson High School and that Joplin enthusiastically talked about Woodstock with her parents and siblings during a visit to their Texas home a few weeks after she had performed at the festival.<ref>{{cite web |last=James |first=Gary |title=Gary James' Interview With Janis Joplin's Sister Laura Joplin |url=http://www.classicbands.com/LauraJoplinInterview.html |year=1992 |work=ClassicBands |access-date=September 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225175921/http://www.classicbands.com/LauraJoplinInterview.html |archive-date=February 25, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1995, Joplin was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]. In 2005, she received a [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]]. In November 2009, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum honored her as part of its annual American Music Masters Series;<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.clevescene.com/c-notes/archives/2009/08/11/rock-hall-honors-janis-joplin |title=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Honors Janis Joplin |work=Cleveland Scene |date=August 11, 2009 |access-date=June 7, 2010 |archive-date=June 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617101901/http://www.clevescene.com/c-notes/archives/2009/08/11/rock-hall-honors-janis-joplin |url-status=live }}</ref> among the artifacts at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum exhibition are Joplin's scarf and necklaces, her psychedelically painted 1965 Porsche 356 Cabriolet and a sheet of [[lysergic acid diethylamide#Forms|LSD]] [[blotting paper]] designed by [[Robert Crumb]], designer of the ''Cheap Thrills'' cover.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rockhall.com/exhibitfeatured/janis-joplin/ |access-date=May 12, 2008 |title=Janis Joplin |publisher=[[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509054345/http://www.rockhall.com/exhibitfeatured/janis-joplin/ |archive-date=May 9, 2008}}</ref> Also in 2009, Joplin was the honoree at the Rock Hall's American Music Master concert and lecture series.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rock Hall to honor Janis Joplin in American Music Masters series |url=http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2009/08/rock_hall_to_honor_janis_jopli.html |access-date=September 20, 2009 |work=The Plain Dealer |date=August 11, 2009 |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607184644/http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2009/08/rock_hall_to_honor_janis_jopli.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In the late 1990s, the musical play ''[[Love, Janis (musical)|Love, Janis]]'' was created and directed by Randal Myler, with input from Janis' younger sister Laura and Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew, with an aim to take it to [[Off Broadway|Off-Broadway]]. Opening in the summer of 2001 and scheduled for only a few weeks of performances, the show won acclaim, played to packed houses and was held over several times.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sommer |first=Elyse |date=2001-04-20 |title=A Curtain Up Review. 'Love, Janis' |url=http://www.curtainup.com/lovejanis.html |access-date=2024-05-21 |website=CurtainUp}}</ref><ref name="lortel">{{Cite web |title=Love, Janis |url=http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=107 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050330021000/http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=107 |archive-date=2005-03-30 |website=Lortel Archives}}</ref>

===Legacy after 2010===
In 2013 Washington's [[Arena Stage]] featured a production of ''[[A Night with Janis Joplin]]'', starring [[Mary Bridget Davies]] in which Joplin performs a concert for the audience while telling stories of her past inspirations, including those of [[Odetta]] and [[Aretha Franklin]]. The production transferred to [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], then went on tour in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://anightwithjanisjoplin.com/tour |title=2016 North American Tour |publisher=A Night With Janis Joplin |access-date=March 28, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154825/http://anightwithjanisjoplin.com/tour |archive-date=March 25, 2016}}</ref> In August 2024 the Tony-nominated musical opened at London's [[Peacock Theatre]] with Davies again in the lead role.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/a-night-with-janis-joplin/|title=A Night with Janis Joplin The Musical - Peacock Theatre - Sadler's Wells|website=SadlersWells}}</ref>

On November 4, 2013, Joplin was awarded with the 2,510th star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] for her contributions to the music industry. Her star is located at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of [[Musicians Institute]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a526481/janis-joplin-for-posthumous-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star.html |title=Janis Joplin for posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star |work=Digital Spy |first=Justin |last=Harp |date=October 27, 2013 |access-date=October 25, 2013 |archive-date=October 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131025212446/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a526481/janis-joplin-for-posthumous-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/janis-joplin/ |title=Janis Joplin |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 14, 2016 |archive-date=June 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603000013/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/janis-joplin/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On August 8, 2014, the U.S. Postal Service revealed a commemorative stamp honoring Joplin as part of its Music Icons stamp series during a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the [[Outside Lands Music Festival]] at [[Golden Gate Park]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=f933be252dfed9664ffdf6d6a9b4c5e9d3abe76e |title=Janis Joplin |website=US Stamp Gallery |access-date=March 27, 2016 |archive-date=April 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415092239/http://usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=f933be252dfed9664ffdf6d6a9b4c5e9d3abe76e |url-status=live }}</ref> Among the memorabilia Joplin left behind is a [[Gibson Hummingbird]] guitar.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/09/30/arts/music/20101003-joplin-ss.html |date=September 30, 2010 |title=Re-introducing Janis Joplin |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 9, 2017 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904055838/http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/09/30/arts/music/20101003-joplin-ss.html |url-status=live }} Slideshow.</ref> In 2015, the biographical documentary film ''[[Janis: Little Girl Blue]]'', directed by [[Amy J. Berg]] and narrated by [[Cat Power]], was released. It was a ''New York Times'' Critics' Pick.<ref>{{cite news |title=Review: In 'Janis: Little Girl Blue', Exploring Joplin's Demons |work=The New York Times |first=Stephen |last=Holdennov |date=November 26, 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/movies/review-in-janis-little-girl-blue-exploring-joplins-demons.html |access-date=February 9, 2017 |archive-date=January 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106003634/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/movies/review-in-janis-little-girl-blue-exploring-joplins-demons.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

After ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the "[[Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time|100 Greatest Artists of All Time]]"<ref>{{cite magazine |title=100 Greatest Artists of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/janis-joplin-19691231 |access-date=June 13, 2010 |date=June 11, 2009 |archive-date=December 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222042747/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/janis-joplin-19691231 |url-status=live }}</ref> and number 28 on its 2008 list of the "[[Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers of All Time|100 Greatest Singers of All Time]]", she was then re-ranked in 2023;<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=December 3, 2010|title=100 Greatest Singers of All Time (2008)|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-147019/janis-joplin-12-223493/|access-date=June 30, 2023|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|archive-date=June 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607213334/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-147019/janis-joplin-12-223493/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2023, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' then ranked Joplin at number 78 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=January 1, 2023|title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/janis-joplin-15-1234643146/|access-date=June 30, 2023|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|archive-date=June 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630211431/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/janis-joplin-15-1234643146/|url-status=live}}</ref> Also in 2023, [[NPR]] dubbed Joplin as the "[[Honorific nicknames in popular music|Queen of Rock]]" and named her one of the "[[50 Great Voices]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Janis Joplin: The Queen of Rock |url=https://www.npr.org/2010/06/07/127483124/janis-joplin-the-queen-of-rock |website=NPR |date=June 7, 2010 |access-date=August 19, 2023 |archive-date=August 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819220516/https://www.npr.org/2010/06/07/127483124/janis-joplin-the-queen-of-rock |url-status=live |last1=Sydell |first1=Laura }}</ref> As of 2013, she remains one of the top-selling vocalists in the United States, with [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA) certifications of 18.5&nbsp;million albums sold.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinum.php?content_selector=top-selling-artists |title=Top Artists (Albums) |work=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |access-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-date=December 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209120422/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinum.php?content_selector=top-selling-artists |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Influence==
Joplin had a profound influence on many singers. [[Pink (singer)|Pink]] said about Joplin: "She was so inspiring by singing blues music when it wasn't culturally acceptable for white women, and she wore her heart on her sleeve. She was so witty and charming and intelligent, but she also battled an [[The Ugly Duckling|ugly-duckling]] syndrome. I would love to play her in a movie."<ref name="majorinfluence">{{Cite news |first=Robert |last=Hilburn |title=Her colors don't run |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-nov-09-ca-hilburn9-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=November 9, 2003 |access-date=May 26, 2013 |archive-date=November 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106111546/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/09/entertainment/ca-hilburn9 |url-status=live }}</ref> In a tribute performance on her [[Try This Tour]], Pink called Joplin "a woman who inspired me when everyone else ... didn't!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/22/popandrock1 |title=Pink, Birmingham NEC |first=Dave |last=Simpson |date=March 22, 2004 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=September 10, 2017 |archive-date=September 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916140914/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/22/popandrock1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Discography==
Joplin recorded four albums in her four-year career.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/janis-joplin-why-she-still-has-a-piece-of-our-heart/ |title=Janis Joplin: why she still has a piece of our heart |first=Alice |last=Vincent |date=January 19, 2016 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=April 5, 2018 |archive-date=November 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109002320/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/janis-joplin-why-she-still-has-a-piece-of-our-heart/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The first two albums were recorded with and credited to [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]]; the later two were recorded with different backing bands and released as solo albums.<ref>{{cite book |url={{Google books|gA2LAwAAQBAJ |page=PA129|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |page=129 |title=The Emergence of Rock and Roll |first=Mitchell K. |last=Hall |author-link=Mitchell K. Hall |publisher=Routledge |year= 2014 |isbn=978-1135053581}}</ref> Posthumous releases have included previously unreleased studio and live material.<ref>{{cite book |url={{Google books|Wvu4TKTboYUC |page=PA112|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |page=112 |title=Blues Music in the Sixties |first=Ulrich |last=Adelt |publisher=Rutgers University Press |date=2010 |isbn=978-0813547503}}</ref>

=== Studio albums ===

==== As lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company ====
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" |Title
! rowspan="2" |Album details
!Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2" |Certifications
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Billboard 200|US]]<br /><ref name="Billboard 200 BBHC">Billboard 200 positions for Big Brother and the Holding Company albums:
* ''Big Brother & the Holding Company'': {{cite magazine|title=Billboard 200 Week of October 14, 1967|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1967-10-14|access-date=August 11, 2021|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=June 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603014050/https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1967-10-14|url-status=live}}
* ''Cheap Thrills'': {{cite magazine|title=Billboard 200 Week of October 12, 1968|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1968-10-12|access-date=August 11, 2021|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=June 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603080804/https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1968-10-12|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Big Brother & the Holding Company (album)|Big Brother & the Holding Company]]''
|
* Released: August 23, 1967
* Label: [[Mainstream Records|Mainstream]]
| 60
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company album)|Cheap Thrills]]''
|
* Released: August 12, 1968
* Label: [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| 1
|
* [[Recording Industry Association of America|US]]: 2× Platinum<ref name="RIAA">{{cite web|title=Gold & Platinum ("Janis Joplin" search)|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=janis+joplin|access-date=August 11, 2021|publisher=Recording Industry Association of America|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811165108/https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=janis+joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|}

==== As solo artist ====
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" |Title
! rowspan="2" |Album details
! colspan="9" |Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2" |Certifications
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Billboard 200|US]]<br /><ref name="Billboard 200 solo">{{cite magazine|title=Janis Joplin Chart History: Billboard 200|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/janis-joplin/chart-history/tlp/|access-date=August 11, 2021|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=November 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128052029/https://www.billboard.com/artist/janis-joplin/chart-history/tlp/|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br /><ref name="Australian Chart">{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|publisher=Australian Chart Book, St Ives, NSW|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]<br /><ref name="RPM Album Chart">RPM magazine album chart positions:
* ''I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!'': {{Cite magazine|date=November 22, 1969|title=LP Chart|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4836&|magazine=RPM|volume=12|issue=14|access-date=August 11, 2021|archive-date=October 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027234008/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4836&|url-status=live}}
* ''Pearl'': {{cite magazine|date=March 13, 1971|title=RPM 100 Albums|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.5201&type=1|url-status=dead|magazine=RPM|volume=15|issue=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024073536/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.5201&type=1|archive-date=October 24, 2012|access-date=September 10, 2011}}
* ''In Concert:'' {{Cite magazine|date=July 8, 1972|title=RPM 100 Albums|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4537&|magazine=RPM|volume=17|issue=21|access-date=August 11, 2021|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811185845/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4537&|url-status=live}}
* ''Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits'': {{Cite magazine|date=October 27, 1973|title=RPM 100 Albums|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3148&|magazine=RPM|volume=20|issue=11|access-date=August 11, 2021|archive-date=August 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812012743/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3148&|url-status=live}}
* ''Janis (1975)'': {{Cite magazine|date=July 12, 1975|title=RPM 100 Albums|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2410&|magazine=RPM|volume=23|issue=20|access-date=August 11, 2021|archive-date=August 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812023631/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2410&|url-status=live}}</ref>

! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[GfK Entertainment charts|GER]]<br /><ref name="German Chart">{{cite web|title=Discographie Von Janis Joplin|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/suche?artistId=janis-joplin|access-date=August 11, 2021|website=Offizielle Deutsche Charts|language=German|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811154151/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/suche?artistId=janis-joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana|ITA]]<br /><ref name="Italian Chart">{{cite web|title=Janis Joplin - Pearl|url=https://italiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin&titel=Pearl&cat=a|access-date=August 11, 2021|website=Italian Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811164200/https://italiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin&titel=Pearl&cat=a|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Dutch Charts|NL]]<br /><ref name="Dutch Chart">{{cite web|title=Discografie Janis Joplin|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|access-date=August 11, 2021|website=Dutch Charts|language=Dutch|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811164200/https://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[VG-lista|NOR]]<br /><ref name="Norwegian Chart">{{cite web|title=Discography Janis Joplin|url=https://norwegiancharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|access-date=August 11, 2021|website=Norwegian Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811165012/https://norwegiancharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa|POR]]<br /><ref name="Portuguese Chart">{{cite web|title=Discography Janis Joplin|url=https://portuguesecharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|access-date=August 11, 2021|website=Portuguese Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105060345/https://portuguesecharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br /><ref name="UK Chart">{{cite web|title=Janis Joplin full Official Chart History|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2767/janis-joplin/|access-date=August 11, 2021|website=Official Charts|archive-date=November 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129124734/https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2767/janis-joplin/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |''[[I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!]]''
|
* Released: September 11, 1969
* Label: Columbia
| 5 || — || 4 || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
* US: Platinum<ref name="RIAA" />
* CAN: Gold<ref name="Music Canada">{{Cite web|title=Gold/Platinum ("Janis Joplin" search)| work=Music Canada | date=April 1978 |url=https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/?_gp_search=janis%20joplin|access-date=August 11, 2021|archive-date=May 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523214003/https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/?_gp_search=janis%20joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Pearl (Janis Joplin album)|Pearl]]''
|
* Released: January 11, 1971
* Label: Columbia
| 1 || 1 || 1 || 3 || 83 || 1 || 1 || 24 || 20
|
* US: 4× Platinum<ref name="RIAA" />
* [[Music Canada|CAN]]: 4× Platinum<ref name="Music Canada" />
* [[Recording Industry Association of Japan|JPN]]: Gold<ref>{{Cite web|title=ゴールドディスク認定検索|trans-title=Gold Disc Certification Search|url=https://www.riaj.or.jp/f/data/cert/gd_search.html|access-date=August 12, 2021|website=Recording Industry Association of Japan|language=Japanese|archive-date=January 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106231849/https://www.riaj.or.jp/f/data/cert/gd_search.html|url-status=live}} Note: User must enter "ジャニス・ジョプリン" into the "アーティスト" field to produce results.</ref>
* [[British Phonographic Industry|UK]]: Silver<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 1, 2019|title=Janis Joplin - Pearl|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/15440-2823-2|access-date=August 11, 2021|publisher=British Phonographic Industry|archive-date=August 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812011242/https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/15440-2823-2|url-status=live}}</ref>
|}

=== Live albums ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" |Title
! rowspan="2" |Album details
! colspan="6" |Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2" |Certifications
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Billboard 200|US]]<br /><ref name="Billboard 200 solo" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br /><ref name="Australian Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]<br /><ref name="RPM Album Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[GfK Entertainment charts|GER]]<br /><ref name="German Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[VG-lista|NOR]]<br /><ref name="Norwegian Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br /><ref name="UK Chart" />
|-
! scope="row" |''[[In Concert (Janis Joplin album)|In Concert]]''
|
* Released: 1972
* Label: Columbia
| 4 || 9 || 5 || 28 || 7 || 30
|
* US: Gold<ref name="RIAA" />
* CAN: Gold<ref name="Music Canada" />
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Wicked Woman (album)|Wicked Woman]]''
|
* Released: 1976
* Label: [[Memory Records|Memory]]
| — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Cheaper Thrills]]''<br />{{small|(with Big Brother and the Holding Company)}}
|
* Released: 1984
* Label: Fan Club
| — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Live at Winterland '68]]''<br />{{small|(with Big Brother and the Holding Company)}}
|
* Released: 1998
* Label: Columbia/[[Legacy Recordings|Legacy]]
| —{{efn|''Live at Winterland '68'' did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 10 on Billboard's Tastemakers chart.<ref name="Tastemakers">{{cite magazine|title=Janis Joplin Chart History: Tastemakers|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/janis-joplin/chart-history/tas/|access-date=August 11, 2021|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=November 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128052110/https://www.billboard.com/artist/janis-joplin/chart-history/tas/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[The Woodstock Experience]]''
|
* Released: 2009
* Label: [[Sony BMG]]/Legacy
| — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968]]''<br />{{small|(with Big Brother and the Holding Company)}}
|
* Released: 2012
* Label: Columbia/Legacy
| —{{efn|''Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968'' did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 14 on Billboard's Tastemakers chart and at number 179 on Billboard's Current Albums Sales chart.<ref name="Tastemakers" /><ref name="Current Album Sales">{{cite magazine|title=Janis Joplin Chart History: Current Album Sales|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/janis-joplin/chart-history/tcl/|access-date=August 11, 2021|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=November 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128052111/https://www.billboard.com/artist/janis-joplin/chart-history/tcl/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''Woodstock: Sunday August 17, 1969''
|
* Released: 2019
* Label: Legacy
| —{{efn|''Woodstock: Sunday August 17, 1969'' did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 62 on Billboard's Current Albums Sales chart.<ref name="Current Album Sales" />}} || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
|}

=== Compilation albums ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" |Title
! rowspan="2" |Album details
! colspan="10" |Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2" |Certifications
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Billboard 200|US]]<br /><ref name="Billboard 200 solo" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br /><ref name="Australian Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]<br /><ref name="RPM Album Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[GfK Entertainment charts|GER]]<br /><ref name="German Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana|ITA]]<br /><ref name="Italian Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Dutch Charts|NL]]<br /><ref name="Dutch Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[VG-lista|NOR]]<br /><ref name="Norwegian Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa|POR]]<br /><ref name="Portuguese Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Sverigetopplistan|SWE]]<br /><ref name="Swedish Chart">{{cite web|title=Discography Janis Joplin|url=https://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|access-date=August 11, 2021|website=Swedish Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811165108/https://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br /><ref name="UK Chart" />
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits]]''
|
* Released: 1973
* Label: Columbia
| 37 || — || 35 || — || 71 || — || — || 47 || — || —
|
* US: 9× Platinum<ref name="RIAA" />
* [[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry|AUT]]: Platinum<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gold & Platin ("Janis Joplin" search)|url=https://ifpi.at/auszeichnungen/?fwp_interpret=janis%20joplin|access-date=August 12, 2021|website=IFPI Austria|language=German|archive-date=August 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812160941/https://ifpi.at/auszeichnungen/?fwp_interpret=janis%20joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
* CAN: Platinum<ref name="Music Canada" />
* [[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry|SWI]]: Gold<ref name="Swiss Chart" />
* UK: Gold<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 22, 2013|title=Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2649-2823-2|access-date=August 11, 2021|publisher=British Phonographic Industry|archive-date=August 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812011240/https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2649-2823-2|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Janis (1975 album)|Janis]] (1975)''
|
* Released: 1975
* Label: Columbia
| 54 || 36 || 54 || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
* US: Gold<ref name="RIAA" />
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Farewell Song]]''
|
* Released: 1982
* Label: Columbia
| 104 || — || — || — || — || — || 31 || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Janis (1993 album)|Janis]] (1993)''
|
* Released: 1993
* Label: Columbia/Legacy
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''This Is Janis Joplin''
|
* Released: 1995
* Label: no label (bootleg)
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[18 Essential Songs]]''
|
* Released: 1995
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || 52 || —
|
* US: Gold<ref name="RIAA" />
|-
! scope="row" |''The Ultimate Collection''
|
* Released: 1998
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || 27 || 26
|
|-
! scope="row" |''Box of Pearls (The Janis Joplin Collection)''
|
* Released: 1999
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''Super Hits''
|
* Released: 2000
* Label: Columbia
| 113 || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
* US: Platinum<ref name="RIAA" />
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Love, Janis]]''
|
* Released: 2001
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[The Essential Janis Joplin]]''
|
* Released: 2003
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || 32 || 100 || 15 || — || 26 || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[The Lost Tapes (Big Brother and the Holding Company album)|The Lost Tapes]]''<br />{{small|(with Big Brother and the Holding Company)}}
|
* Released: 2008
* Label: Airline
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''Playlist: The Very Best of Janis Joplin''
|
* Released: 2010
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''Move Over!''
|
* Released: 2011
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''Blow All My Blues Away''
|
* Released: 2012
* Label: no label (bootleg)
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''[[The Pearl Sessions]]''
|
* Released: 2012
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |''Janis: Little Girl Blue''<br />{{small|(Original Soundtrack)}}
|
* Released: 2016
* Label: Columbia
| — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
|}

=== Singles ===

==== As lead of Big Brother and the Holding Company ====
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" |Title
! rowspan="2" |Year
! colspan="3" |Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2" |Certifications
! rowspan="2" |Album
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Billboard Hot 100|US]]<br /><ref>Billboard Hot 100 positions for Big Brother and the Holding Company singles:
* "Down on Me": {{cite magazine|title=The Hot 100 Week of October 12, 1968|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-10-12|access-date=August 12, 2021|magazine=Billboard|date=January 2, 2013|archive-date=February 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216224713/http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-10-12|url-status=live}}
* "Coo Coo": {{cite magazine|title=The Hot 100 Week of November 30, 1968|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-11-29|access-date=August 12, 2021|magazine=Billboard|date=January 2, 2013|archive-date=August 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812161638/https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-11-29|url-status=live}}
* "Piece of My Heart": {{cite magazine|title=The Hot 100 Week of November 9, 1968|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-11-09|access-date=August 12, 2021|magazine=Billboard|date=January 2, 2013|archive-date=October 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025203757/http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-11-09|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]<br /><ref name="RPM Singles Chart">RPM magazine singles chart positions:
* "Piece of My Heart: {{Cite magazine|date=October 21, 1968|title=RPM 100 Single Survey|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4329&|magazine=RPM|volume=10|issue=8|access-date=August 12, 2021|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107124003/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4329&|url-status=live}}
* "Kozmic Blues": {{Cite magazine|date=December 27, 1969|title=RPM 100 Single Survey|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=5015&|magazine=RPM|volume=12|issue=19|access-date=August 12, 2021|archive-date=November 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106173636/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=5015&|url-status=live}}
* "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)": {{Cite magazine|date=February 21, 1970|title=RPM 100 Single Survey|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2235&|magazine=RPM|volume=13|issue=1|access-date=August 12, 2021|archive-date=November 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106192708/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2235&|url-status=live}}
* "Me and Bobby McGee": {{Cite magazine|date=April 3, 1971|title=RPM 100 Single Survey|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2656&|magazine=RPM|volume=15|issue=7|access-date=August 12, 2021|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811201323/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2656&|url-status=live}}
* "Cry Baby": {{Cite magazine|date=June 19, 1971|title=RPM 100 Singles|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3255&|magazine=RPM|volume=15|issue=18|access-date=August 12, 2021|archive-date=August 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813034145/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3255&|url-status=live}}
* "Get It While You Can": {{Cite magazine|date=October 2, 1971|title=RPM 100 Singles|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4390&|magazine=RPM|volume=16|issue=7|access-date=August 12, 2021|archive-date=August 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813034148/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4390&|url-status=live}}
* "Down on Me": {{Cite magazine|date=August 5, 1972|title=RPM 100 Singles|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4528&|magazine=RPM|volume=17|issue=25|access-date=August 12, 2021|archive-date=August 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813034135/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4528&|url-status=live}}</ref>

! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|FRA]]<br /><ref name="French Chart" />
|-c
! scope="row" |"Blindman"<br />{{small|(B-side: "All Is Loneliness")}} Mainstream 657
| 1966
| 110 || — || —
|
| rowspan="5" |''Big Brother & the Holding Company''
|-
! scope="row" |"[[Down on Me (traditional song)|Down on Me]]"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Call on Me")}} Mainstream 662
| rowspan="3" |1967
| 43 || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |"Bye, Bye Baby"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Intruder")}} Mainstream 666
| 118 || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |"Women Is Losers"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Light Is Faster Than Sound")}} Mainstream 675
| — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |"Coo Coo"<br />{{small|(B-side: "The Last Time")}} Mainstream 678
| rowspan="2" | 1968
| 84 || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |"[[Piece of My Heart]]"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Turtle Blues")}} Columbia 4-44626
| 12 || 9 || 50
|
* US: Platinum<ref name="RIAA" />
* [[Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana|ITA]]: Gold<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dati della certificazione richiesta: Titolo: Piece of My Heart|url=https://www.fimi.it/top-of-the-music/certification-form.kl#/certificationform/5507|access-date=August 12, 2021|publisher=Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana|language=Italian|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108173705/https://www.fimi.it/top-of-the-music/certification-form.kl#/certificationform/5507|url-status=live}}</ref>
|''Cheap Thrills''
|-
|}

==== As solo artist ====
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" |Title
! rowspan="2" |Year
! colspan="8" |Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2" |Certifications
! rowspan="2" |Album
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Billboard Hot 100|US]]<br /><ref name="Billboard Hot 100">{{cite magazine|title=Janis Joplin Chart History: Hot 100|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/janis-joplin/chart-history/hsi/|access-date=August 11, 2021|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=November 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128052006/https://www.billboard.com/artist/janis-joplin/chart-history/hsi/|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br /><ref name="Australian Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Ö3 Austria Top 40|AUT]]<br /><ref name="Austrian Chart">{{cite web|title=Discographie Janis Joplin|url=https://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|access-date=August 12, 2021|website=Austrian Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|language=German|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105060345/https://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]<br /><ref name="RPM Singles Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|FRA]]<br /><ref name="French Chart">{{cite web|title=Discographie Janis Joplin|url=https://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|access-date=August 12, 2021|website=Les Charts|publisher=Hung Medien|language=French|archive-date=September 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907083829/https://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Janis+Joplin|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[GfK Entertainment charts|GER]]<br /><ref name="German Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Dutch Charts|NL]]<br /><ref name="Dutch Chart" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%" |[[Swiss Hitparade|SWI]]<br /><ref name="Swiss Chart">{{cite web|title=Janis Joplin|url=https://hitparade.ch/artist/Janis_Joplin#charts|access-date=August 12, 2021|website=Swiss Hit Parade|publisher=Hung Medien|language=German|archive-date=August 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812160952/https://hitparade.ch/artist/Janis_Joplin#charts|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |"[[Kozmic Blues]]"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Little Girl Blue")}}
|1969
| 41 || — || — || 33 || 136 || — || — || —
|
| rowspan="3" |''I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!''
|-
! scope="row" |"Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)"<br />{{small|(B-side: "One Good Man")}}
| rowspan="2" |1970
| 103 || — || — || 89 || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |"Maybe"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Work Me, Lord")}}
| 110 || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |"[[Me and Bobby McGee]]"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Half Moon")}}
| rowspan="3" | 1971
| 1|| 1 || 7 || 6 || — || 8 || 11 || 3
|
* US: Platinum<ref name="RIAA" />
| rowspan="3" |''Pearl''
|-
! scope="row" |"[[Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song)|Cry Baby]]"<br />{{small|(B-side: "[[Mercedes Benz (song)|Mercedes Benz]]")}}{{efn|"Mercedes Benz" is certified gold in the US.<ref name="RIAA" />}}
| 42 || — || — || 22 || — || — || 12 || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |"Get It While You Can"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Move Over")}}
| 78 || — || — || 51 || — || — || — || —
|
|-
! scope="row" |"[[Down on Me (traditional song)|Down on Me]]"<br />{{small|(B-side: "Bye, Bye Baby")}}
| 1972
| 91 || — || — || 74 || — || — || — || —
|
|''In Concert''
|-
|}

==Filmography==
* ''[[Monterey Pop]]'' (1968)
* ''[[Petulia]]'' (1968)
* ''Janis Joplin Live in Frankfurt'' (1969)
* ''[[Janis (film)|Janis]]'' (1974)
* ''Janis: The Way She Was'' (1974)
* ''Comin' Home'' (1988)
* ''[[Woodstock]] – The Lost Performances'' (1991)
* ''[[Woodstock (film)|Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director's Cut)]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Festival Express]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Nine Hundred Nights]]'' (2004)
* ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]: Rock Icons'' (2005) Shout Factory
* ''Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock'' (2005)
* ''[[This is Tom Jones]]'' (2007) 1969 appearance on TV show
* ''Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director's Cut) 40th Anniversary Edition'' (2009)
* ''Janis Joplin with Big Brother: Ball and Chain'' (DVD) Charly (2009)
* ''[[Janis: Little Girl Blue]]'' (2015)

== Explanatory notes ==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite web |website=DaveArcher.com |first=Dave |last=Archer |url=http://www.davearcher.com/Joplin.html |title=Janis Joplin |access-date=January 13, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620010210/http://www.davearcher.com/Joplin.html |archive-date=June 20, 2012 |author-link=Dave Archer (painter) }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/janis-joplin-how-she-became-a-music-icon.html/?a=viewall |title=Janis Joplin: How She Became a Music Icon |website=CheatSheet.com |date=April 6, 2016 |access-date=October 15, 2015 |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016040957/http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/janis-joplin-how-she-became-a-music-icon.html/?a=viewall |url-status=dead }}
* {{Cite book |title=Janis: Her life and music |first=Holly |last=George-Warren |author-link=:fr:Holly George-Warren |isbn=978-1-4767-9310-8 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |oclc=1076417963 |year=2019}}
* {{cite web |url=http://gonzotoday.com/2015/07/03/wild-ride-with-janis/ |title=Wild Ride with Janis |date=July 3, 2015 |first=Kyle K. |last=Mann |website=GonzoToday.com |access-date=July 3, 2015 |archive-date=July 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704042245/http://gonzotoday.com/2015/07/03/wild-ride-with-janis/ |url-status=live }} – an encounter with Janis Joplin at the wheel.

==External links==
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* {{Official website}}
* [https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/janis-joplin Janis Joplin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709214306/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/janis-joplin |date=July 9, 2019 }} at the [[Grammy Award]]s
* {{allMusic|janis-joplin-mn0000177060}}
* {{discogs artist|120232-Janis-Joplin}}
* [https://www.music-map.com/janis+joplin Janis Joplin on the Music-Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724194238/https://www.music-map.com/janis+joplin |date=July 24, 2021 }}
* {{IMDb name|0429767}}
* {{discogs artist|Kozmic Blues Band}} as Kozmic Blues Band

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