Piece of My Heart. It takes major Wilanders to cover any song ever sung by Janis Joplin, but the chica doing it was up to the job. I wandered by; it turned out to be Mahalia Barnes, whose father ...

“I think some of those criticisms are unfair,” says Patti Smith, a long-term fan of Janis Joplin. “Take her version of Irma Franklin’s ‘Piece Of My Heart’. Irma’s version is saying ...

Look back at any of American music’s significant counterculture moments in the 60s, and Janis Joplin ... Franklin’s “Piece of my Heart”. But it was Monterey that made Joplin’s career ...

“Don’t Compromise Yourself,” a song by “Piece of My Heart” author Jerry Ragavoy, written for Joplin, who sadly died before ...