Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

Alice Echols

464 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music challenging informative slow-paced
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Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, a...

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