This week, in honor of reporter Brandi Grissom's "Trouble in Mind" series, we kick off our playlist with Janis Joplin singing a classic song of the same name.

2. “Trouble In Mind” In 1964, Joplin cut a seven-song album of blues standards with future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. The collection was known as The Typewriter Tapes and one ...

Joplin was both a product and an architect of her times; in dwelling so sympathetically on her tangle of talents, contradictions, and mythology, Janis brings one of rock's most enduring legends ...

As a singer, Janis Joplin always gave everything she had inside, and in the "Summer of Love," 1967, she became America's first female rock star: "She wanted to be like a female Elvis Presley, I ...

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Look back at any of American music’s significant counterculture moments in the 60s, and Janis Joplin was invariably there. The singer was pivotal to Haight-Ashbury’s Summer of Love movement in ...

Valentine’s Day is a perfect time to reflect on some of the quintessential love songs that have come from our hometown musicians.

Janis Joplin was just an unknown girl from Texas when Jorma Kaukonen accompanied her in 1964, recording a set of songs that would eventually attain mythic status.