![]() She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get away-even after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle down-but couldn’t, or wouldn’t. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn’t all about suffering. Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance. ![]() By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. ![]() Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
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