Janis Joplin was the star of the first day of the festival, and probably the most anticipated act of the entire festival. She had been one of the standout acts at Woodstock two weeks earlier, and she was well known for her on-stage charisma. She had been a part of the band Big Brother and the Holding Company, but she went solo at the end of 1968. At the time of this concert, she hadn't yet released her first solo album, "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!" But it was due to come out less than two weeks after this concert, so many of the songs she played were from that album.
Even though Joplin was a big star, her set started late into the night. That's because the organizers of the festival screwed up with the timing. The audience was let in shortly before noon, but the first act didn't began playing until about four P.M. Then there were big delays between acts. As a result, Joplin took to the stage close to one in the morning. The set here seems short, at a little over half an hour, but that's because it's incomplete. It's known that the last song she performed was "Piece of My Heart," and she also played "Work Me, Lord," and neither of them are included here. So it's possible some other songs are missing as well. Just two weeks earlier, her set at the Woodstock festival lasted slightly over an hour, so it's likely she played a similar amount of time at this festival.
Her performance lived up to expectations, and she left the stage to a long standing ovation.
The concert was a particularly emotional one for Joplin, because she had been born and raised in Texas. Growing up in Port Arthur, off the Gulf of Mexico about three hundred miles away, she had been very unhappy because she already was a hippie of sorts in the early 1960s and she didn't know anyone else unconventional like her. After performing "Work Me, Lord," which I mentioned isn't included here, she reportedly happily told the crowd, "You're looking great! Texas never looked like this when I lived here, man. But man, look at you now!"
She moved from Texas to California in 1966. After the concert, she told reporters that this was only the second time she'd been back to Texas after moving. She said, ""I had to get out man, they were fuc*ing me over." She also said that she planned to visit her family in Port Arthur in the days after the concert.
The recording is a soundboard that sounds excellent. The only problem, as mentioned above, is that it's incomplete. At least none of the songs here got cut off.
This album is 32 minutes long.
01 talk (Janis Joplin)
02 Raise Your Hand (Janis Joplin)
03 As Good as You Been to This World (Janis Joplin)
04 talk (Janis Joplin)
05 Try [Just a Little Bit Harder] (Janis Joplin)
06 talk (Janis Joplin)
07 Maybe (Janis Joplin)
08 To Love Somebody (Janis Joplin)
09 Summertime (Janis Joplin)
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The cover photo is from this exact concert. It was in black and white, so I used the Kolorize program to colorize it. I also used the Krea AI program to improve the detail.
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ReplyDeleteNicely, thank you for the Janis.
ReplyDeleteGreat to have, thank you. Just my opinion, and I do get you want a cover approximating the time and place, but the AI rendition on some of these are just plain creepy. This resembles Janis as much as I do, which is to say not at all.
ReplyDeleteYeah, this one didn't turn out so great. But I only had one pic to work with.
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