Nobody sang the blues hotter, lived the 60's wilder, or rocked harder than Janis Joplin. THis is her story. Out of the Texas, Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. THe author bases this biography on interviews with scores of personalities, both famous and unknown to reveal facts about Janis Joplin's life and death that have languished in shadow for many years. Here is the tragic, the magic, and, most of all, the real Janis Joplin - the greatest female singer in the history of rock and roll