At midnight on KPFA they had this show called the Midnight Special. Peter Albin (Big Brother and the Holding Company): We used to go up to Berkeley every once in awhile. In the second installment of our new feature, musicians recall “The First Time I Heard Janis Joplin.” ( In our debut story, artists looked back at Bob Dylan.) Joplin, we learned, was not always a larger-than-life psychedelic rocker.īig Brother’s Peter Albin was a folk and bluegrass musician when he first met Joplin in 1963. Her second and final solo LP, Pearl, was released posthumously in 1971 and would become her most successful album. Joplin split from the band in 1968 to launch a solo career.
Joplin’s triumphant performances at the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock cemented her reputation as the first “queen of rock and roll.” The band’s manager, Chet Helms, encouraged its members to make Joplin their lead singer. Joplin, who died in 1970 at age 27 of an accidental drug overdose, burst on the music scene in 1966 as vocalist of San Francisco’s Big Brother and the Holding Company. Joplin’s powerful, gritty vocals made songs like “Piece of My Heart,” “Ball and Chain,” “Summertime” and “Me and Bobby McGee” uniquely her own.
Lyric to me and bobby mcgee driver#
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a trainAnd I am feeling near as faded as my jeans.Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained,It rode us all the way to New Orleans.I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna,I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues.Windshield wipers slapping time, I was holding Bobby?s hand in mine,We sang every song that driver knew.Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,Nothing don?t mean nothing honey if it ain?t free, now now.And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,You know feeling good was good enough for me,Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.From the Kentucky coal mines to the California sun,Hey, Bobby shared the secrets of my soul.Through all kinds of weather, through everything that we done,Hey Bobby baby kept me from the cold.One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away,He?s looking for that home and I hope he finds it,But I?d trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterdayTo be holding Bobby?s body next to mine.Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,Nothing, that?s all that Bobby left me, yeah,But feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,Hey, feeling good was good enough for me, hmm hmm,Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.La la la, la la la la, la la la, la la la laLa la la la la Bobby McGee.La la la la la, la la la la laLa la la la la, Bobby McGee, la.La La la, la la la la la la,La La la la la la la la la, hey now Bobby now Bobby McGee yeah.Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na na naHey now Bobby now, Bobby McGee, yeah.Lord, I?m calling my lover, calling my man,I said I?m calling my lover just the best I can,C?mon, where is Bobby now, where is Bobby McGee, yeah,Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy LordHey, hey, hey, Bobby McGee, Lord!Yeah! Whew!Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy LordHey, hey, hey, Bobby McGee.Janis Joplin was called “the greatest white urban blues and soul singer of her generation” by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted her in 1995.
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