Call me mean, call me evil,

I've been called much worse thing around,

But, I'm gonna take good care of Janis, honey,

Yeah, ain't no one gonna drag me down...

And they called her other things too, like . . . the greatest white  blues singer of all time.

Janis Lyn Joplin was born in the town of Port Arthur, Texas on January 19, 1943.

She died on October 4, 1970 in a Hollywood motel of a heroin overdose.

She was 27.

When a woman gets dreary
Ain't no tellin what she won't do.

                               - Shipwreck Blues


A woman left lonely
Will grow tired of waiting
She'll do crazy things
On lonely occasions.

                        - A Woman Left Lonely