Janis Joplin's siblings reflect on growing up with a budding music legend, and why they've decided to share her personal archives in a revealing and enlightening new book The notion of overnight rock ...

Students and staff Friday were unpacking three truckloads of new musical instruments that singer Barry Manilow donated to tornado-ravaged schools in Joplin, Missouri. Manilow presented the instruments ...

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Rock icon Janis Joplin grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. The music of Janis Joplin is perhaps associated more often with places like San Francisco or maybe Woodstock than it is southeast Texas. But ...

Her raspy blues-rock was the soundtrack to San Francisco’s summer of love. But according to a new documentary, Texan runaway Janis Joplin, even as she advocated her philosophy of “get stoned, stay ...

On May 22, 2011, in only 35 minutes, one-third of Joplin, Mo., was destroyed. Winds peaked at 250 miles per hour, reaching a maximum width of one mile. The Joplin tornado led to 161 deaths and the ...

Singer-songwriter Cade Thompson — who first discovered his love for Christian music at a young age, singing to himself in the backyard of his Joplin home — plans to make it back one to Southwest ...