Influential Women Of Rock – Janis Joplin [VIDEO]

March is the month that recognizes Women's History Month. An occasion to salute the spectacular female rockers who brought poetry and power to classic rock.

Janis Lyn Joplin was born  in Port Arthur,Texas January 19th, 1943. We lost Janis on October 4, 1970, she was 27 years young. Her nickname "Pearl."

Janis was a singer/songwriter who rapidly rose to fame in the late 1960s as a lead singer during the psychedelic/acid rock era.

Janis was the lead vocalist of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and her own Kozmic Blues Band and Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Janis's essential albums:  

'Cheap Thrills' (1968)

'I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!' (1969)

'Pearl' (1971)

Janis's signature songs: 

"Piece Of My Heart'

"Ball And Chain"

"Get It While You Can"

"Me and Bobby McGee"

"Piece of my Heart" is a song  about a lovelorn woman so enraptured by her man that she's willing to break off yet another piece of her heart if only he will take it.