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  1. Mar 9, 2024 · Janis Joplin ditched her psychedelic reverie for blues-inspired strokes of empowerment on her debut solo album.

    • Michael Gallucci
    • "Me and Bobby McGee" From 'Pearl' (1971) Like so many other cuts on our list of the Top 10 Janis Joplin Songs, once Joplin got hold of Kris Kristofferson's laid-back road tune, it was totally hers.
    • "Piece of My Heart" From 'Cheap Thrills' (1968) Erma Franklin, Aretha's older sister, recorded the original version of "Piece of My Heart." She hit the R&B Top 10 with it in 1967.
    • "Summertime" From 'Cheap Thrills' (1968) Practically everyone from Miles Davis to Norah Jones has covered "Summertime," George Gershwin's 1935 standard from Porgy and Bess.
    • "Ball and Chain" From 'Cheap Thrills' (1968) Big Brother and the Holding Company, the San Francisco psychedelic blues-rockers who gave Joplin her big break, pretty much barreled through their songs with little subtlety or nuance.
  2. Sep 11, 2015 · But with her debut solo album, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, on the horizon, Joplin used a classic '60s R&B template as her guidebook.

    • Michael Gallucci
  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Kozmic_BluesKozmic Blues - Wikipedia

    "Kozmic Blues" is a song from American singer-songwriter Janis Joplin's I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! album, her first after departing Big Brother and the Holding Company. It was a part of Joplin's set at the Woodstock Festival in 1969.

    • Blues Rock , Psychedelic Rock
  4. “Kozmic Blues” is a song from American singer-songwriter Janis Joplin’s I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! album, her first after departing Big Brother and the Holding Company.

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  6. May 9, 2024 · Kozmic Blues was written by Janis Joplin and her bandmate Gabriel Mekler, and it was released on her album “I Got Dem OlKozmic Blues Again Mama!” in 1969. The song opens with a melancholy guitar riff and Joplin’s distinctive voice, before building into a crescendo of sound.

  7. Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane.