1 hit, and was a departure from the raucous rock numbers for which she was known. She points to Joplin's cover of Kris Kristofferson's 'Me and Bobby McGee.' It was Joplin's first No. George-Warren says she thinks that if Joplin had lived longer, she would have continued to experiment with different kinds of music. And she needed a new way to be heard over the loud guitars, hence her unique, loud singing style. That was when she was 'for the first time, playing in a band with electric instruments,' George-Warren says. Joplin moved to San Francisco, where she stayed, in 1966, joining Big Brother and the Holding Company. She began performing live, playing the blues with a group called the Waller Creek Boys. George-Warren says Joplin found her people when she came to Austin in the early 1960s. She was wearing big, floppy shirts over tights, barefooted half the time.' 'Janis was letting her hair hang down, long. 'This was still the era where most of the gals were still wearing the shirtwaist dresses and bobby socks, the loafers and the bouffant beehive hairdos,' she says.

Joplin's style was at odds with the time, too, George-Warren says. Credit Photo by David Gahr Janis Joplin at the 1968 Newport Folk Festival.

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