Music journalist Holly George-Warren, author of the new biography, "Janis: Her Life and Music" (published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS), offers "CBS Sunday Morning" a roster of favorite ...

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The far-flung performers didn't have much in common, beyond a debt of gratitude owed to a blues-belting rocker who died in 1970. In return, each of them left a piece of his or her heart onstage during ...

There’s more than a little of Janis Joplin in the character Bette Midler played in 1979’s “The Rose,” but Hollywood has never managed to make a feature about the blues-rock singer. Amy Berg’s “Janis: ...

Holly George-Warren’s “Janis: Her Life and Music” teeters between tragedy and triumph even before singer Janis Joplin injects a lethal dose of heroin five times more pure than that to which she was ...

Rock icon Janis Joplin grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. The music of Janis Joplin is perhaps associated more often with places like San Francisco or maybe Woodstock than it is southeast Texas. But ...

50 years later, music fans can finally take a little piece of Janis Joplin’s heart as CineLife Entertainment and BroadwayHD bring the critically acclaimed Broadway musical, A Night With Janis Joplin, ...

Today marks what would have been the 73rd birthday of legendary Texas-born rocker Janis Joplin. I like to imagine the possibilities of a take-no-b.s., 70-something Janis ranting on Twitter, dropping ...

Dorian Rush stars as Janis Joplin in "Livin' Janis," tonight through Aug. 9 at Le Chat Noir. FRIDAY, Aug. 7 Dash Rip Rock guitarist Bill Davis joins the band for "Livin' Janis," a Janis Joplin tribute ...

Mary Davies stars in “A Night With Janis Joplin” Oct. 5 at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan. One Halloween, Mary Davies dressed up like Janis Joplin. Her friends thought she was Elton John. “I’ve known ...

Music documentaries have long been popular at film festivals, but they’ve rarely been in the kind of spotlight they are at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Not only has the Aretha ...