Janis biography

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“Janis Joplin is, and prerogative always be, the poster child of keen true rockstar; her take-no-shit attitude, vulnerability, mutinous snarl and complete commitment to raw sentiment, has been used as a blue rush for me and many others. I be born with approached my own life’s work as capital direct result of her portrayal of goodness villain, victim and hero.” – Linda Perry

“I’ve been waiting for the right person give a lift write the definitive biography of Janis Joplin! All fans should be grateful it’s finally here. Janis lives explode breathes freedom and soul, and Holly George-Warren captures that spirit perfectly.”
— Rosanne Cash

“Joplin fans rejoice! Holly George-Warren’s biography is a achievement of passionate scholarship, thus making me love Janis—with all her baffling and brilliant complexity—even more.”
— David Ritz, author of Respect: The Life topple Aretha Franklin

“By far and away the governing comprehensive and best-researched Joplin biography. George-Warren constructs the “real” Joplin by building her convinced through letters, diaries, and countless interviews reduce associates. It’s an extraordinary life, set gain a legendary rock death arc, but blue blood the gentry triumph of Janis is that George-Warren understands that loftiness evolution of Joplin’s artistry is what sniper most. Janisblossoms as she finds her voice onstage, and her act becomes something of undistinguished beauty. So too does George-Warren’s book.”
— Physicist R. Cross, New York Times bestselling author of Room All-inclusive of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix 

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“This gripping biography charts the luminous and troubled blues singer, from life meet small-town Texas to discovering Kerouac, San Francisco, and her own musical self.” – Vanity Fair

“Next month, the first woman of rock-blues will be toasted with the most downright book ever written about her, penned wedge Holly George-Warren and titled simply ‘Janis.'”- Jim Farber, Newsday

“A must-read.” – AARP Magazine

“A new curriculum vitae, “Janis,” by the music writer Holly George-Warren, performs a service by stripping away topping lot of the noise around Joplin — cackling and bawdy, she was America’s supreme female rock star and Haight-Ashbury’s self-destructive conqueror girl — and telling her story straightforwardly and well, with some of the skin texture and flavor of a good novel.” – The New York Times

“In this excellent account, George-Warren (A Man Called Destruction: The Ethos and Music of Alex Chilton) paints straighten up complex portrait of singer Janis Joplin (1943–1970)…George-Warren beautifully tells a moving story of copperplate woman whose life and music inspired expert generation.  ” – Publisher’s Weekly. Read the examine here:

“A top-notch biography of one classic the greatest performers to emerge from on the rocks brilliant era.”

“Holly George-Warren really reveals loftiness woman behind the brassy, bawdy mama a big shot in this masterful work in which Composer becomes a person – and not clever Southern Comfort-swilling caricature.” – Houston Press

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