Janis wore her soul like a blanket trying to protect her from pain, hurt, anger, & even love! This woman was one of a kind, & sadly missed by everyone who loved & understood her music ❤ 💚 💙 She truly was a gift that was only with us for a short time, but what a glorious time it was!!! Thank you both, for such a thoughtful reaction ❤ 💚 💙

"Her parents felt that Janis needed more attention than their other children. As a teenager, Joplin befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Lead Belly, which Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer."

I’m 100% with you on all levels. She’s amazing

Musicians at that time toured CONSTANTLY.

Little Girl Blue on the Dick Cavett show. She sings the song of her soul. She drank. She was just so organic. Her bad Little Brother and the Holding Co. were often criticized for being not very good. But, her raw conviction captured you. Like Neil Young...his sloppy guitar was his style. And we wouldn't have had it any other way. There is a time and place for fine high quality music...and for just talented raw expression. Thank you for your love and appreciation of this very special woman we lost too soon.

So glad to see Janis again, especially live. She covered a number of great songs, including the BeeGees' "To Love Somebody."

Work me Lord(Stockholm) is my favorite, to me it always felt the most true to her soul. I hope you check it out!

Yes, she did several tours during her last few years, and yeah, her voice could sound very strained in some of the filmed performances. She started as a singer in clubs, and there are some rare recordings from those early days of her too-short career (e.g., her reworking of "Codine"). Garnet Mimms' version is also very good and comes across much differently, and Janis also personalized the lyrics somewhat as she often did. Even her studio recordings are from the days before everything (voices and instruments) was put through electronic filters and correction - just raw talent and feeling.

I would trade most female pop singers right now to have one Janis. 😊

@alanfoster6589

24 күн бұрын

Notice that they all sound like 13-year old girls.

This is one of her best imo ❤

I think you reacted to the Righteous Bros very much also. But, Janis did tour and she does have tremendous vocal control and uses her voice without damaging it.

Your Janis vids are my favorite things. I go back to your ball and chain vid probably once a week. ❤❤

It's all feel, very true .. emotional alchemy

I laughed out loud when you briefly left and came back, because I felt exactly the same way at that point. Oh, Janis. ❤

I love when you react to Janis Joplin. She is one of my all-time favorites! Like you, I'm all about the feel of a song and the connection she made with the audiences. She just drew you in... This performance I believe was in Toronto while she was on The Festival Express Tour through Canada with a few other groups. Please check out more from her. Some suggestions: Work Me Lord (live in Stockholm): Get It While You Can, To Love Somebody and Move Over (all on the Dick Cavett Show), Maybe (the Music Scene or on the Ed Sullivan Show).

She is definitely missed. She was a little stick of dynamite always ready to explode on stage and we loved her.

This has to be my favorite Janis song!

Janis put herself way out there. So much so, there was nothing left . Love and peace!

This woman rocked the rafters. People wanna pick but so she was addicted but many singers now r and nobody wants to pick at them pisses me off

i think her rawness may have fooled you...well, that and her damaged voice-- from screaming, smoking, and just generally not taking care of herself or her voice. But if you can avoid getting pulled into her intensity and emotion, and focus on things like her modulation and her control of the different textures of her voice in the service of what she's saying from point to point in the song, I think you may reconsider her technical abilities. Also there are some songs in which you can hear her voice when it was in good fettle. I can no longer remember which those are, but I imagine you can find out with some online research. She is obviously incredibly an incredibly emotional singer...but she's also aware and intentional in her choices, and rarely, if ever, loses control, seems to me, taking us exactly where she wants us to go, from one moment to the next.

Love her

Everything about Janis Joplin's music is, for me, soul searching. Her delivery and passion is iconic for the whole world. Believe me, i am from Serbia 🇷🇸! Anyway, i love Janis and i love your reaction on "Cry baby"!❤

Janis' pianist was Richard Bell. Thanks for the great reaction.

This was from Toronto, June 28, 1970, her tour across Canada, the "Festival Express" (by train), over that summer. Not Woodstock (August 1969). She did tour, and she DID do this on a nightly basis. She did it in Canada that summer.

This was not in Woodstock

I totally agree with you, I really feel her emotions. I can't help but shed a tear every time I hear her sing, pure emotion. Lost too soon.

JANIS = ABSOLUTE PERFECTION. Gone way to early,...but , OH WHAT A RIDE . JANIS YOU ARE MiSSED.❤️🎶🎵✌️

You have got to - got to - GOT to - listen to the live version of 'Summertime"!! Not sure how to tell you which one, but the reactors on the 'Merchant of Alba" channel have it.

Thanks for another Janis performance, I was a fan of this amazing singer from the first time I heard her in the 60’s, my heart was absolutely broken 💔 one tha day she passed on … being a teen & surrounded by amazing music of the 50’s 60’s & 70’s took me on so many journeys. My heart is healing ❤️‍🩹 after all these years. Her studio version of Cry Baby is #1 but Janis loved doing live shows!!I’m a huge James Brown fan too! I love all the old blues from way back & understand where Janis is coming from. I think of some of Etta James’ songs her studios were great & some live performances were not as good it all depended on the particular day & how they felt that day ☮️❤️‍🔥☮️❤️‍🔥🔥🥰 Thank you for loving Janis ❣️ PS I had a 6 foot tall black light poster of Janis, a big poster of Jimi Hendrix, back in the late 60’s all their albums which were played over and over again & when they both died ( at 27 yrs) I played their music to try and heal… so I really understand how you are feeling & truly thank you for this. Glad new generations are keeping the music alive 🥰

Also love her songs "Summertime " and "Work Me Lord". (Live versions, of course.)

I used to sing Mercedes Benz to my little ones sooo many years ago

This is the best video on the internet! Thanks for reacting.

I do think this is really impressive vocally tho? Like what she does is not a growl or like high note. I dont know how to describe it lol but that's extremely hard to do- and have the deepness, like when she belts that's amazing

Thanks. A great way to start my day. Now I'm ready to face the 110 heat index today in NOLA.

OMG I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SO LONGGGG I THOUGHT U NEVER WERE GUNNA DO A REACTION TO HER AGAIN OMGGGG

Work me Lord in 1969 in also a good one. One of her best performances

Work me lord live in Stockholm 1969 or Woodstock, both amazing.

I’ll never forget my Dad explaining what she was referring to by her pulling her harpoon outta her dirty red bandanna in Bobby McGee when I fell in love w her roughly around 12. He drove me, his wife, and my older sister from PA to Bush Gardens in VA and we all got a turn listening to an album we liked and mine was Miss Janet’s greatest hits. Blew my mind that he liked her as well. I’m 48 and he’s 83🥰🖤🥹

@thelayoutexclusive

28 күн бұрын

what does it mean?

@Deam7666

28 күн бұрын

@@thelayoutexclusive Unfortunately, the harpoon is slang for a needle and the bandanna is for tying off before you shoot up😬

@thelayoutexclusive

28 күн бұрын

@@Deam7666 omg....... I-

She definitely was from another place or planet

Yep, feeling it is everything! A poor performance from Janis, and admittedly this one is, is better than 90% of anything new! I had just turned 12 when she died, and had never heard her until "Me and Bobby McGee". Have been mesmerized by her ever since. Nobody I knew liked her but I was instantly smitten!

thanks for making me laugh in the middle of a sleepless night ur too funny bro😂❤

@MMBxMOB

4 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@dominikbach6896

4 күн бұрын

@@MMBxMOB glad you enjoyed Janis like u did! :)

❤

If you haven’t done Work Me Lord or Maybe... they are 🔥

By 1969 Janis thought she was managing her heroin and alcohol addictions, but that didn’t last long. She was so high at Woodstock and later she thought her performance wasn’t good. She was fantastic.

What do you think is “bad” about her singing? She screams, but she stays at the time, and speed the track was made for. She’s still in control.

Yes she went on tour..this performance was from Frankfort Germany

oh yeah the Garett version is also really good too, its like a 50's style thing really church vibey more choir kinda.

The next 1 u should do is , Try (just a little bit harder), do 1969 in Frankfurt, when she has a grey top on..!!

that poor woman had such a tortured soul. It would impossible to bring her back even if we could. she would be overwhelmed by all the new and much worse stuff we have now. Her thing was to have real honest love. Not stuff, not things, just lots of real love.

Courtney Hadwin did Joplin's ' Piece of My Heart ' at Carnegie Hall last Apri 2924. She has been called Janis Joplin reincarnated.

You should try listening to a Scottish singer called Maggie Bell

you have to love her, it's in the Constitution I think.

yeah never do studio version, please always react to live...

I think her throat remedy was Jack Daniels.

If you can't feel it?.....then you have no soul. Literally.

react to maybe

Someone forgot their meds.

I don't think this is the Woodstock performance. I could be wrong. But one thing I will say is that singers today just don't know how to do the FEELING you're talking about. Why is that? I don't understand these singers today -- they seem to want to just look cute more than actually feel.

Joplin was always stoned and live does her no justice, sad, just sad!

In the 50s and 60s, you had great female artists like Mahalia Jackson & Janis Joplin. Today we have..... Billie Eilish? 🤮Yarg!!

Janis Joplin is very much alive, along with 950+ others in "Witness Protection Program" We will get to see them all, just as soon as President Trump and the White Hat's get through draining the Swamp!! When You Know, You Know!! WWG1WGA

@menkin883

Ай бұрын

I hope you're being sarcastic.

@sharonmoore9934

Ай бұрын

@@menkin883 No, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm just telling you the truth. I would never be sarcastic about someone's death, that would be inhumane. When President Trump and his Secret Army, get through draining the Swamp, as he tells you in his speeches at his rallies, you will see for yourself, because there will be a disclosure in the end. People you thought were dead, are actually alive in the "Witness Protection Program", and People you think are Alive, are actually dead. Do your Research, they have been making "Clones" since the 1950's and also they have actors playing some parts until the People wake up to what's going on behind the scenes. Just like, if you Google Joe Biden's Obituary, Newspaper Valley Morning Star, Page A39, Harlington, Texas, the "Real" Joe Biden died Sunday January 24, 2021, before his "Fake inauguration". There have been actors playing his part, to show "We the People" the corruption that has been going on in the Govt., Entertainment Industry, Politicians, CEO's, etc. We are going through the Storm, right now to show people what our lives would have been like if H. Clinton would have won, and brought in "The One World Order". Obama was the start of the process and H. Clinton was to be the finisher. There are Secret Societies (President Kennedy talked about them in his speech), that once they lure you in, the only way out is to "Fake" your death, or they will eliminate you themselves. That is why there are over 950+ famous people in "Witness Protection" So no, I'm not being sarcastic about any of this, I'm telling you the truth, and whether you believe it, is up to you. WWG1WGA

@sharonmoore9934

Ай бұрын

@@menkin883 No, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm telling you the truth. I wrote a long reply, to answer you truthfully, but I don't see it on here, when I came back to check it again, so I guess it was taken down. Look up the newspaper "Valley Morning Star" then go to page A39. You will find an Obituary there of Joe R. Biden dated, Sunday, January 24, 2021.

@sharonmoore9934

Ай бұрын

@@menkin883 I have tried to reply to you 2 times, to prove what I say is true, but it keeps getting taken down. So all I can tell you is you will see when all this is over. WWG1WGA

@briansmith303

Ай бұрын

Alive and doing what, exactly? There's no way someone like Janis is going to be "alive" in any real sense without pouring her soul out through music. And there's no way anybody today would be pouring their soul out in music like Janis without being noticed, no matter how obscure their identity.