Janis herself has never sounded better on record, but it took me four full listenings to the LP before I could hear her. That’s how bad her band is. When (and if) you get hold of this record, my ...

There’s a quote that haunts the legacy of the late singer Janis Joplin. “Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people,” Joplin once said. “Then I go home alone.” Those words seem to encapsulate perfectly the ...