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Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The … Continue reading “Janis Joplin”

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. They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their lead singer. Their 1968 album Cheap … Continue reading “Big Brother And The Holding Company”

Things We Learned From Paul Butterfield Doc ‘Horn From the Heart’ – Rolling Stone” />Paul Vaughn Butterfield  (December 17, 1942 – May 4, 1987) was an merican blues harmonica player, singer and band leader. After early training as a classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored the blues scene in his … Continue reading “Paul Butterfield Blues Band”

Cold Blood is a long-standing R&B horn funk band founded by Larry Field in 1968 and was originally based in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band has also performed and recorded under the name Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, due to the popularity of their lead singer, Lydia Pense. The band first came to prominence in 1969 when … Continue reading “Cold Blood”

The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start. Billed as “An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music,” the epic event would later be known simply as Woodstock and become synonymous with … Continue reading “Woodstock 1969”

Blues musician Johnny Winter died at the age of 70. He died in a hotel room in Zurich. Guitarist Winter was born in Texas. From childhood he made music; when he was 10 he was already performing together with his brother Edgar. Both boys were albino. For decades, Winter was active as a musician and … Continue reading “Johnny Winter”

Beth Hart (January 24, 1972) is an American singer who became famous in the Netherlands for her hit L.A. Song (Out of this town). Her songs are a bit like those of Janis Joplin and Joan Armatrading, but her voice is rougher. In the early nineties she appeared in publicity for the first time through … Continue reading “Beth Hart”