It's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the
'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But
how did a middle-class girl from Texas become a '60s
countercultural icon? Janis' parents doted on her and promoted her
early talent for art. But the arrival of a brother shattered the
bond she had with her intellectual maverick of a father, an oil
engineer. And her own maverick instincts alienated her from her
socially conformist mother. That break with her parents, along with
the rejection of her high school peers, who disapproved of her
beatnik look and racially progressive views, and wrongly assumed
she was sexually promiscuous, cemented her sense of herself as an
outcast. She found her tribe with a group of offbeat young men a
year ahead of her, who loved her intellectual curiosity, her
passion for conversation, and her adventurous search for the blues.
Although she never stopped craving the approval of her parents and
hometown, she left Port Arthur at seventeen determined to prove she
could be loved. She tried college twice, and dropped out both
times. She ran off to California, but came back when her heavy drug
use scared her into it. She almost signed up for a life as a
domesticated, hang-the-curtains wife. But instead, during a second
stint on the West Coast, she launched a career that would see her
crowned the queen of rock and roll. What no one besides Holly
George-Warren has captured in such intimate detail is the way Janis
Joplin teetered between the powerful woman you hear in her songs
and the little girl who just wanted to go home and feel emotionally
safe there. The pain of that dichotomy fuelled her music - and
ultimately killed her.
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