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    Little Girl Blue

    Nov 01, 2019 4 minutes
    By Karl Richter

    JANIS: HER LIFE AND MUSIC

    by Holly George-Warren

    SIMON & SCHUSTER

    $28.99; 400 PAGES

    TEXAS-BORN ROCK ICON JANIS JOPLIN HAS BEEN ONE OF AMERICAN culture’s most compelling figures for more than 50 years, in large part because of the intrigue she presents: Just who was this storm of a singer, and just what inside her came out as that voice? In Janis: Her Life and Music, author and music journalist Holly George-Warren makes a definitive exploration of those questions, laying out in impressive detail the particular personal alchemy that led Joplin to forge all-new alloys of power and vulnerability, freedom and fatalism.

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