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 ...

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

“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 ...