"Rock's hottest mama[!]" - UnCut

49 years ago today, Big Brother and The Holding Company began their East Coast Tour at the Anderson Theater in NY!

"Janis belted blues like no white girl I had ever heard. Janis was unforgettable - she was an amazing talent - the first I had encountered. She flew in the face of the perfect '50s homemaker.” - writer Holly George-Warren paraphrasing a fellow journalist and photographer who knew Joplin in her early days in Austin, Texas