Janis Joplin’s raw, powerful voice was shaped by blues legend Bessie Smith and the electrifying stage presence of Tina Turner ...

Josh Joplin, a frequenter of coffee houses, bars and clubs across America, decided to settle down and play his guitar in a record studio one day. By the time he left that studio, he had recorded a ...

Janis Joplin's siblings reflect on growing up with a budding music legend, and why they've decided to share her personal archives in a revealing and enlightening new book The notion of overnight rock ...

Al Zar, a concert promoter whose reputation for reliability enabled him to reach from Joplin to the heights of the country music business, has died. Zar, 71, succumbed Tuesday at his home in Espanola, ...

JOPLIN — Music programs that suffered severe losses when a tornado hit Joplin in 2011 are slowly rebounding from losing most of their sheet music, instruments, costumes and uniforms although some ...

Josh Joplin Group has announced his return to music with the new album GpYr (pronounced “gap year”), to be released on April 4 via NarrowMoat/Missing Piece Records. After a self-imposed hiatus to ...

Port Arthur will celebrate Janis Joplin's 65th birthday by putting a historical marker in front of her childhood home. "She was a very popular figure in the '60s, and she had a lot to do with the ...

Nearly four decades after her death in 1970, this countercultural trailblazer is the toast of this year's American Music Masters series, presented by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case ...

Singer-songwriter Cade Thompson — who first discovered his love for Christian music at a young age, singing to himself in the backyard of his Joplin home — plans to make it back one to Southwest ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2019 issue. Texas-born rock icon Janis Joplin has been one of American culture’s most compelling figures for more than 50 years, in large part ...