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Tweet We've already featured Alabama Shakes a few times on the site, but it's time for a formal introduction to one of our Ones To Watch for 2012 . Formerly The Shakes, Alabama Shakes from Athens, Alabama are poised to knock you for a loop like a Mint Julep going straight to your head on a sweltering summer's day. A four-piece made up of Steve Johnson, Zac Cockrell, Heath Fogg, and [...]
On March 13, one day after the one year anniversary of Owsley "Bear" Stanley's death, Columbia/Legacy will release Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 , an unreleased Bear recording of Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company . Bear was involved with the mixing of this release before the fatal car accident which took his life and it will be the first of a long-awaited "Bear's Sonic Journals" archival release series. "Care was taken to preserve and ensure the integrity of the music as well as [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Amazon Jerry Ragovoy, a producer and songwriter whose compositions were famously covered by Janis Joplin and the Rolling Stones , died on July 13 following complications of a stroke, the New York Times reports. He was 80. Among his many hits, some of Ragovoy's most memorable were 'Piece of My Heart' and 'Time Is on My Side,' which were covered by Joplin and the Stones, [...]
Summer, Summer, Summer...it turns me upside down. Well, not really. I live in the Northeast, as I've said in the past, because I'm not that big on the heat. A lot of folks love the summer weather. Heck, half of them don't even need air conditioning. That's definitely not me. I don't mind a good dip in the ocean, but I'm not going to work that hard to make that happen anymore. Something about all these extra pounds I figure. My friends go to Cape [...]
Forty years ago today, we learned of the death of Janis Joplin. She was one of the finest blues singers ever. The late 1960s counterculture, for all its "revolutionary" talk, still had a lot of old-fashioned values, as did the music. Joplin's blues were torn from the souls of Howlin' Wolf, Big Mama Thornton and Ma Rainey and as a result her music is timeless. When I was a sophomore in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Joplin visited my high school in her hometown. I've told this story before , but I was impressed [...]
Forty years ago on Oct. 4, we learned of the death of Janis Joplin. She was one of the finest blues singers ever. The late 1960s counterculture, for all its "revolutionary" talk, still had a lot of old-fashioned values, as did the music. Joplin's blues were torn from the souls of Howlin' Wolf, Big Mama Thornton and Ma Rainey and as a result her music is timeless. When I was a sophomore in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Joplin visited my high school in her hometown. I've told this story before , but I [...]
Forty years ago on Oct. 4, we learned of the death of Janis Joplin. She was one of the finest blues singers ever. The late 1960s counterculture, for all its "revolutionary" talk, still had a lot of old-fashioned values, as did the music. Joplin's blues were torn from the souls of Howlin' Wolf, Big Mama Thornton and Ma Rainey and as a result her music is timeless. When I was a sophomore in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Joplin visited my high school in her hometown. I've told this story before , but I [...]
"Cheap Thrills" was the last album that featured Janis Joplin as lead vocalist. "We're just a sloppy group of street freaks," Janis would say, but this album was their most coherent, even coming out with "Piece Of My Heart" which was one of her greatest recordings of all time. The album cover is actually #9 on Rolling Stone's Top 100 album covers of all time. Its funny because originally this was actually intended to be the back of the album and what they wanted on the front was a naked picture of the band which was [...]
Janis Joplin: Chapter 2. Big Brother - Big Brother & the Holding Company - Arts - Television - Programs
Janis Joplin: Chapter 1. Big Brother & The Holding Company - Janis Joplin - Arts - Big Brother - Television
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News In the mid-1960s when San Francisco became ground zero for the birth of the modern day rock concert, Longshoreman's Hall, near the tourist-minded Fisherman's Wharf, was something of a launching pad. Predating Bill Graham's Fillmore dance space across town, Longshoreman's Hall hosted many concerts by the Grateful Dead , including the famed Trips Fest -- an acid test that also featured Janis Joplin (with Big Brother & the Holding Company ). It was also the place [...]
This morning I woke up with "Mercedes-Benz" in my head and sort of took it as a sign. Here is a list of the things that Janis Joplin reminds me of, in no order: -Being in San Francisco - Jackie Jormp-Jomp - The best thing in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Beth Ditto (or rather, the other way around) -Drugs -Leonard Cohen's " The Chelsea Hotel " -My dad telling me, [...]
Darren of the Inveresk Street blog rightly pointed out that most of the musicians who died in 2009 featured in the two previous posts lived to a ripe age. As every year, there were exceptions. Poor Taylor Mitchell, for example, was only 19 and had just released her debut album when she was attacked and killed by coyotes. Others who died young in 2009 included Jeff Hanson (31), Steven Gately (33), guitarist Jack Rose (38), Chris Feinstein of The Cardinals (42), Vic Chesnutt (45), Jay Bennett (45) and, of course, Michael Jackson (50) (EDIT: as well as former [...]
While the country was in a flurry of holiday preparation and last minute Christmas shopping, a member of the old guard of American psychedelia passed away. Best remembered for his '60s project, Big Brother and the Holding Company , James Gurley was a guitarist who influenced the acid-tinged fuzz of that decade's milieu with his background in bluegrass and blues. While much of Big Brother's career was dominated by legendary lead singer Janis Joplin , Gurley was one of the San Francisco scene's earliest architects, who later called his former group the "most maligned band ever" [...]
While the country was in a flurry of holiday preparation and last minute Christmas shopping, a member of the old guard of American psychedelia passed away. Best remembered for his '60s project, Big Brother and the Holding Company , James Gurley was a guitarist who influenced the acid-tinged fuzz of that decade's milieu with his background in bluegrass and blues. While much of Big Brother's career was dominated by legendary lead singer Janis Joplin , Gurley was one of the San Francisco scene's earliest architects, who later called his former group the "most maligned band ever" [...]
MUSIC NEWS - James Gurley , guitarist with Big Brother and the Holding Company , the psychedelic blues acid rock band from San Francisco who helped Janis Joplin on her rise to music history back in the late 1960's died from a heart attack on December 20th at a Palm Springs, CA hospital. He was 69, and died two days before his 70th birthday. Gurley was born in Detroit, MI on December 22, 1939 and started playing guitar at 19, immediately befcoming a fan, and student of blues, especially bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins . He moved to San Francisco in1962 and became part [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Big Brother and the Holding Company guitarist James Gurley died of a heart attack on Sunday at a Palm Springs, Calif. hospital. Gurley, 69, was a key creative force in the San Francisco-based psychedelic rock outfit that propelled Janis Joplin to stardom in the late 1960s. On news of his former bandmate's passing, co-founder Sam Andrew wrote on Big Brother's official website , "For me and many people, James was the real 1960s, the real exemplar of that counterculture, [...]
It was the first, and most important, question of the day: just what does one wear to Woodstock? We were headed to the "Heroes of Woodstock" show Saturday at Bethel Woods Center, on the grounds of the original 1969 Woodstock festival, and we wanted to fit in. Thinking that a Hawaiian shirt might be a little ostentatious, by the time we got to Woodstock we knew we were wrong. Because everywhere you looked, there was tie-dye. Tie-dyed shirts, tie-dyed pants, possibly even a couple of tie-dyed people. In fact the only thing more plentiful than tie-dye on Saturday was gray hair [...]
Clockwise, from top left: Sam Andrew, James Gurley, Dave Getz, Peter Albin and up front, Janis Joplin This year is, of course, the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival and there is promise of many celebrations to mark the occasion. One of the most auspicious will be August 15 in Bethel, New York, on the site of the original festival: the "Heroes of Woodstock," featuring Mountain, Canned Heat, Ten Years After, Country Joe McDonald, the Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship and Big Brother and the Holding Company. This lineup is also touring the [...]
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