This extraordinarily intimate and "gripping" ( Vanity Fair ) biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.
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Janis Joplin\'s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, Music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast.
This extraordinarily intimate and "gripping" ( Vanity Fair ) biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was