Janis is definitely worth exploring. Check out her live performance of Ball and Chain from Monterey Pop. This was when the world discovered Janis. She put her heart and soul into every song.

Some of her idols were Bessie Smith, Big Momma Thornton and others. She did have a rough time in high school. They were really mean to her back then. She said it comes through when she sings. She loved the people who came to see her in concert. She called them her friends

She is a one of aa kind singer and just left us too early but thankfully she left behind some amazing music.

My favourite blues soul singer, I had the joy of discovering Janis & The Big Brother Holding Company in the 60’s. I listened to her everyday for her magic voice. I never got over her early death 💔 my heart is still broken but thankfully the world has her music to enjoy. Janis passed away at 27, as did Jimi Hendrix & Jim Morrison of The Doors also died at 27 in the same time period, it was a sad time for music fans ☮️🎸💥😢

Janis wore her soul like a blanket trying to protect her from pain, hurt, anger, & even love! This woman was one of a kind, & sadly missed by everyone who loved & understood her music ❤ 💚 💙 She truly was a gift that was only with us for a short time, but what a glorious time it was!!! Thank you for such a thoughtful reaction ❤ 💚 💙

The Performance That Started It All For Janis,, JANIS JOPLIN "BALL AND CHAIN" LIVE AT MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet check her out doing Ball and Chain at Monterey Pop.

She was amazing. This was released the year I graduated from high school, and everyone I knew was replaying it constantly. I stayed obsessed with her through the rest of her so-short life. Bless you Janis! Her voice carried so much pain and hope-- As the boys I graduated with headed off to war her voice was like a pressure release. We were so angry, so broken. Nuclear war, zero population growth, the fight for civil rights, our own country napalming babies a half-world away, river catching on fire from pollution, birds dropping dead from the sky from DDT... I don't know when people are referring to when they talk about the good old days of innocence, but it wasn't the 60's and 70's, I guarantee you that. So many greats lost in such a short time: Jimi had just died a few weeks earlier, and Jim Morrison died less than a year later: all giants, and all 27 years old. They say hard times birth brilliant music. Perhaps it's true.

Janis had a phenomenal voice and lived the blues. Sad she had to go the year after this recording. She made it big with Big Brother and the Holding Company. Piece of my Heart was probably her biggest hit.

The fact the Gershwin brothers wrote this for Porgy and Bess in the 30's ...Billie Holliday, Ellla Fitzgerald and others did this and every rendition was unique. This one is soul crushin.

She amazes me! So deep at such a young age. She was special! ✌❤

Janis is absolutely worth exploring. Albert King called her "The Queen of the Blues". Big words from a man of that calibre. Janis was like a flash of lightning. Here for a moment, but left her Mark forever.

Ball and Chain at Monterey Pop Festival That’s when her short career really took off ☮️💜 the lady they show in the audience is mama cass from the group mamas and the poppas

Summertime a favorite

Definitely worth going down the Janis rabbit hole!! She left us waaaay too early. ☮️

"Ball and Chain" live at the Monterey Pop Festival (1967) is worth your time. For a studio cut, try "Cry Baby" or "Me and Bobby McGee". Janis always brings it _all_ .

Love Janis - 'Cry', 'Ball & Chain', 'Piece of my heart', 'Me & Bobby McGee' - all of them brilliant

Can't wait for you to hear more Janis. She put her all into every song. ♡♡♡

Hi! You have to check out “Ball and Chain” live at Monterey! Sooooo good!! She’s absofuckinloutely AMAZING! Enjoy!✌🏻🇨🇦

THANK YOU BIZ... HER LEAD GUITARIST SAM ANDREW WAS A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE. I BELIEVE I TOLD YOU THIS. HE ALWAYS CALLED HER HIS QUEEN. SHE IS THE QUEEN HE WAS HER KING

Her soul comes out through her voice. Some songs, Get It While You Can, Maybe, A Woman Left Lonely, I need A Man To Love, Kosmic Blues, Me And Bobby McGee, Little Girl Blue, Cry Baby, Try, Piece Of My Heart. Oh she's worth checking out. We are blessed to have her.

Yep, Janis Joplin is one of the unique rock n roll vocal. It gives me the chill, even though I am Deaf....Thanks for sharing BizMatik. Peace

What a great trip back in time. Love Janis and her sound. ❤

OKI am a 67 year old female. That thought I was the next janice joplin until I found that I can't sing😂😂😂😂 I have heard a lot of music in my life. That's my Passion and hands down you will never Ever get a female singer to compare to her ever. There's so much about her That is legendary From her car to southern comfort giving her a For coat and I read that a friend of hers from the beginning said by the time she got famous that her voice was already Half gone. From drinking and drugs. I don't think the world could stand janice joplin at full volume. The Saddest thing she ever said in my opinion. Is she just made love to 25000 people And Is going home alone😢😢 If you ever need a Good cry listen To my favorites Little girl blue live on Tom Jones and work me Lord they are sure to help.😊

Try the studio version of "Piece of my Heart".

Definitely check out “Ball and Chain” live at Monterey Pop. It was her break out performance.

Omg yes!!! This is in my wheelhouse 🔥 Janis Joplin is a one of a kind for sure ♥️ She is my 30 year old daughters favorite female artist 🎤🎶 My 3 girls grew up listening to all the greats 😉 I am now enlightening my 11 yo granddaughter 😂

💯 🤯 Janis Joplin was BADASS‼🔥🤟 RIP Pearl. ❤🕊🙏

Studio: Piece of My Heart; Me and Bobby McGee

You could randomly pick a song by her and you ain’t gonna go wrong.

Great reaction! As usual. I'm not going to make a request cause I'm sure you have been hit up with requests. I love her and you can definitely feel her emotions in all of her music. As you listen to Led Zeppelin you'll hear her influence on Robert Plant when he sings. She's great! ✌ out.

This is absolutely my favorite song heard from Janice Joplin. Her voice is just awesome!! To think of where she might be today...And she was just starting to become famous. Agents followed her every where. They were amazed by her very powerful voice. They said that they had never heard a white woman sing with the voice of a black woman. Oftentimes, she didn't even use a microphone! She simply got up on the stage and just belted it with her amazing and powerful voice. She would just hop up on the stage with a big old bottle of Southern Comfort, starting belting it out, sometimes she would grab some lucky woman in the audience and dance and sing along with her. Rest in peace, Janice. You are missed.

You seriously crack me up bro , keep singing make Janis proud 💰 ✌❤🤘

Check out Ball And Chain, from the Monterey Pop Festival. She was a relative unknown and this performance blew people away.

Love Janis Joplin. Her performances are raw emotion.

This is my favorite of hers so many influences in the music

Yes! I actually got a noti when you uploaded it!! Lol!!! I was just settling in for the evening and this pops up.... I wasn't even born yet when Janis passed, but heard her music on the radio here and there growing up. I always loved it!! Gonna watch now! EDIT: Whenever I hear Janis, I ALWAYS immediately think of Melissa Etheridge (HUGE 90's rocker with many HUGE hits!!).... she was always compared to Janis and at one point was deemed the Janis of the '90's..... PLEASE check out one of her big hits. It'll BLOW YOU AWAY...... Melissa Etheridge: "LIKE THE WAY I DO" Live at Pink Pop '94...... I'm sure some are gonna reply to this and complain about me requesting "LIVE" over "Studio". I just thought it might be fitting to do a live for her as well. It's a NO frills, PURE freaking epic performance and it sounds just as good as the studio version (IMO)!!! K, I'm gonna shut up now and watch this reaction!!! LOLOL!!! ;)

4:22 Nailed it

She is definitely worth it! Me and Bobby McGee.

I remember hearing her voice as a 11 yr old and as a teen. So unusual. So much blues in her soul. Most thought she was black until they saw her. This was the rock time and then Janis. Lol. She was a heroin addicted. That's what took her life at 27 . Such a sad loss for the music world. There has never been anyone to compare- until I heard a gal named Beth Hart. Check her out.

She was a Queen!

Is she worth exploring??????? Crybaby, Ball and Chain at The Monterey Pop Festival, Piece of my Heart, Mercedes Benz the a cappella version and Little Girl Blue is a MUST!!!

There’ll never be another Janis ☮️💜

My favorite for Janis is "Piece Of My Heart", studio is fine but the Live in Germany 1968 video is SUPER FUN!!! Either way, it's a great song (imo, better than this one! lol!!) Catch ya on the next one!! :)

I love love love your reaction to Janis. I suscribed a couple of weeks ago because you had the exact, and I mean precise reaction, to whatever song it was, it showeed that you really got it-- Oh yeah, White Rabbit! You intuited that it was from Alice In Wonderland, you got the vibe and expressed it with a genuine appreciation of the artists and the song. And here with Janis, it's just really clear that you "get" the queen of the blues. I really, really look forward to watching you watch and listen to Her "Ball And Chain, Live at Monterey Pop Festival" It will blow your mind.

Janis Joplin. I fell in love with her soul as a young teen. Just WAITING for someone like you to dig on her. Not much I don't know about her. Her voice, can't think of the word & it's extremely rare, but her voice sounds like 2 of her singing. Not all the time, here hell yes, ya gotta know her voice & she's weaved inside my soul.

Janis is an experience.✌️😎 Prussian Blue is pretty dark.

Definitely explore it further!

My favorite of all time by Janis is ‘WORK ME LORD’ live in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 (1969) 🙌🏾 Portland Oregon USA 🇺🇸

This song is from the American opera "Porgy and Bess".

They had to take her , to feel understand her soul!!! Love ya Janis!!

she's all about soul and blues

Janis Joplin, Work me Lord, live Stockholm 1969. You will thank me later, if no one else has recommended it.

Year they amazing ❤

Do the live version of ball and chain and be amazed.

Ball n chain and me and bobby McGee great tunes by janis

She from port arthur texas like pimp c and Jimmy johnson use to bully her in high school. They were classmates. Everybody talked down in her. So years later she shows up to the high school reunion famous as fuck. Basically the Queen of Rock Roll and just shitted on everyone lol she was the first edgy chick in the music industry. On the main stream side atleast. She even inspired steven tylers sound.

Ooh you got sent possibly the best song ever by her live

I always felt Janis was the only singer comparable to early Robert Plant. They were similar not in range but with their conviction, rawness, and delivery. 100% worth checking out more of her music.

She could sing the alphabet and make you love it.

Graduat in 1970 we had the best music b b

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for top janis songs piece of my heart me and bobby mcgee ball and chain cry baby by bye baby

Queen of soul rock, kin to sister Rosetta thorpe

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Ball and Chain, Monterey Pop; Me and Bobby McGee

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Midnight blue

That noise coming from you. Is it moose hunting time already?

This was near the end. She was drinking and smoking alot

Just 1song please!!!!! MERCEDES-BENZ cause ain't many of us original JANICE fans left

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she was amazing but i dunno what kinda noise u made...sheesh lol

There is a reason she sang like that. Read her biography.

Wok me Lord ❤

the bands thats with her on this is bad company. great great band. check mout their song bad company by bad company.

The whole album Pearl.

"Cry Baby" "A Woman Left Lonely" plus all other suggestions in the comments, then try some Beth Hart. Not making any comparison here just introducing another great talent, start with "Am I the One" live @Paradiso, imo a live performance not to be missed

Please brother, watch this link of the original version of this song, which comes from the opera Porgy & Bess Link:

Big brother and the holding company

7 minutes and he can't stop sipping his drink the whole time. Its interesting how people get so uncomfortable feeling emotion that they run for any distraction to pull themselves away.

Midnight Blue........most people like her pop stuff like Me and Bobby Megee or Mercedes Benz or the poor sound quality of Monterey Pop's Ball and Chain but i like her sou/blues tunes better......Maybe Baby,Tell Mama,Cry Baby.......she only had one bad live performance when she had vocal fatigue so the recording of Piece of My Heart is better

jj man

What I was trying to say in my comment was I would appreciate it if you would check out Beth Heart and Joe Maza Rado live in Amsterdam I’d rather go Blind I’ll take care of you am I the one you won’t be disappointed check them out because Liz the queen

Kosmic Blues - Janis Joplin She vomits her soul here lmao

If you don't think she is worth exploring I will eat my socks!

There’s anything you play from Janice Joplin is going to be fantastic but you got to do it live cry baby cry a ball and chain live at Monterey there’s so many I can’t even explain it but she’s one of the greatest artist I was she was the star performer at the Woodstock in 1969 language Jimi Hendrix she died in 27 years old along with Jimi Hendrix also died at that age the guy from doors died at 27 there’s a whole group of a mama Cass by 27 but that was a drug gauge remember what I told them seven all these people in person well evidently Siri didn’t get that down I am 76 years old and I have seen all these people in person and you know how I feel about Stevie Ray Vaughan also why don’t you check out the other James is my favorite singer there’s nothing that I had a quick call cleansing and she wrote I’d rather go Blind but the best heart and Joe basmati check them out live in Amsterdam she said it would be very proudLes the queen Les the queen there’s a number

She died because her dealer went on vacation and she got her drugs from someone else not cheated.

Janis doesn't sing soul - Janis was soul.

Nay

Cobalt

Love Janis but alot of her live performances are hard to watch since she is sooo drugged up. Not this one though.

This is Liz the queen everything that she sings is wonderful not only is it worth playing her but she’ll get many many reviews it was me that told you about Janice Joplin and the second thing is I asked you to play live from Monterey California ball and chain live to see if you can get the live version of cry baby cry but either the studio version and the live version is good she died it’s 27 over in a heroin overdose that doesn’t take away from your voice she was a guy just remember when I told you I’ve seen all these people in concert I told you how old I was 76 years old just Apple it’s just coming out when Woodstock came it was a 1969 she was coming out just before then like she blew that away Les the queen love you and I hope your life it’s going well and one thing that I noticed about you is I think that you need a very strong woman and somebody that can really love on you and be your partner not just a lover no woman somebody just a jump on a fuck they want they want a lover they want somebody in the morning then I’ll come up with a cooking breakfast put their arms around you and kiss you on the next women when did the love part I am a pretty strong broadI’ve been with Billy I’ve been widowed twice and I was only 32 years old and then I met Billy and we’ve been together 42 years and he will tell you or is he played for me by the gap and I dropped a bomb on you think about that this is the queeni

wow way to just hack up your reaction of this legend at 4:24 doing such a horrible impression not even funny