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  • This is great but what she was doing by 69 -70 was absolutely terrific and even though somewhat mainstream, it was and is absolutely authentic, so much so we've mourned her ever since!!

  • awesome share ! thanx

  • sounds so much like a blues song from the 30's......AWSOME.....

  • AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Just JANIS AND AN AUTOHARP! Thanks soooooooooooo much for posting this!!

  • There's only one Janis!

  • I could not stop listening amazing

  • she was really a blues singer

  • Amazing. Bitter and sad and poignant and amazing. Too bad all we have now is Katy Perry.

  • Alright!

  • My god this is amazing!

  • Of all the songs I've heard on youtube, this song by Janis completely blows me away. This is an instant blues classic.

  • love the music have a lot of early janis all i can say is wicked RIP in Janis

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  • Also now available on YouTube Tracy Nelson's rocking version of this Janis composition. Check it out--Tracy is a phenomenal singer, a contemporary of Janis's who never quite got the recognition she deserved.

  • so bluesy! you can definitely hear the bessie smith/memphis minnie influence in this

  • Heard David Crosby on a late night talk show several years when he recounted about being at a party where Janis and Jim Morrison were at a party. Apparently Janis and Jim got into some kind of argument resulting in Janis bashing Jim in the head with her bottle of Southern Comfort. Always thought that was a cool story.

  • @daven58100 What happened was that Janis was sitting next to Jim on a couch when he grabbed her head and shoved it into his crotch! She was livid, hence hitting him over the head with the Southern Comfort bottle.

  • @daven58100 That's apparently a true story! If you read the book "Going down with Janis" it's told in there as well! Also it's an aweeessssooommmmeeee book :)

  • sounds like she's trying to sound like bukka white.

  • A candle in the wind that burned out way too early. What a talent!!!

  • Cuando Gilbert Shelton la oyo cantar a principio de los60' le propuso hacer un grupo de rock, pero ella le contesto que los cantantes de folk no hacian ese genero....despues, dijo, fue tarde para el.

  • Holy shinola!! Ya think maybe she might have listened to one or two delta blues artists? Is this 1962 or 1932? What power, what control, what a force of God!!!

  • @meeshajunk45 she used to hang out in old blues clubs so yeah she was hearing the 30s blues i'm sure...

  • la buena de Janis, siempre especial y unica. Y eso que en estas primeras canciones a mi me recuerda a cantantes como Billie Holliday.

    Me da igual, me gusta tanto en sus primeras grabaciones (cuando se le notaban las influencias de otros) como cuando llego a su propio estilo, unico y espectacular.

    Por cierto, lo tenia que haber dicho lo primero de todo pero gracias por el video y por compartirlo con tod@s (:-})

  • Wow, and she was only 19 !

  • How cool. Thank you. A TRUE STORY! ~“Feeling”~ ~“led”~ almost ~“compelled”~ to ~“write”~ my ~“book”~ ~”DIVINE 9/11INTERVENTION”~ @ LOVEGODISLOVEdotORG like ~“this”~ I ~“discovered”~ a ~“77”~ ~“alignment”~ of ~“seven...”~'s ~“hidden”~ in the book of ~“Revelation”~! Do you think ~“this”~ ~“physical evidence”~ of ~“God”~ might cause more of ~“us”~ to sit up and take notice of what it ~“truly”~ means to ~“Love thy neighbour as thyself.”~? Also here on YouTube watch "The Curtain is Moving Again."

  • Awesome!

    

  • Oh Janis, how I miss you girl....I hope you found happiness where ever you are....

  • The song is quite poignant and quite sad to listen. If only she knew what the future held when she wrote it

  • A-MAZING!

  • Wow. Just wow. What a gem!

  • She was 19 here

  • That is such a shame they felt that way about her. She was apure and amazing soul.

  • gold! how good would it have been to see her live...

  • No one is close to being like Janis.

  • If you love Janis Joplin you will LOVE Haley Reinhart. She is no way around it the modern Janis Joplin and a legend in the making!! Look up her singing Piece of my heart!! She can rock it out

  • @MIketucky350 are crazy?????? oh i get it..it's a joke, right????

  • @marceloevera2009 Hell no I'm not crazy! Haley Reinhart is as close as we can get to Janis today!

  • @MIketucky350 I've heard her...she's to janis as a cat is to a lion....seriously....I think is even a sacrilege to compare a half ass singer to janis, the one and only.... you better have your ears checked....

  • Love you, Jannis - Rest in peace.

  • It's great to find rare gems like this from Janis (-:

  • Love You,Janis!°

  • I've loved her since I was a baby. Sort of she's been my heart, singing right into it since I was ten. Then the next year she was dead. I've known every word to all the songs she ever recorded. I hope I get to heaven and she's singing with Jim Morrison Cass Elliott, and Duane Allman and Jimi Hendrix are playing guitar!

  • When I heard this song, I felt something quicken inside me. That last note? What the fuck was that?!?! Nothing and nobody has ever had that astounding SOUND!! I lay slain.

    Once you go Janis, all other singers vanish.

  • Bessie Smith

  • wow she sounds like shes hungover but still Janis is awesome R.I.P

  • It can do a lot of good....seems like. Im sitting here wondering where I'll be layin my head down to sleep in the comin days or weeks. I have gin & orange and some beer. Temporary fix I s'pose huh? Thank you for postin this. .....dont matter what Im drankin long's it drown the sorrow Im in.......

  • wow!!! LOL!!!!

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  • What a voice, amazing!

  • I just finished reading "Love Janis" written by her sister Laura Joplin it was a great book couldn't put it down.

  • @StaunchComic thats on my amazon wish list

  • @75hippylove After I read the book and talked about it with friends alot of people told me that Janis and her sister Laura were not close and they felt she was exploting Janis? It was still a good book to me. Even if they were angry all family fight. Joplin disowned her entire family in her will after her 10 HS reunion her class mates were mean to her and JJ felt like her family didn't have her back.. I love Janis Joplin!

  • How nice to see there are others that feel as you do about someone you love when you're feeling like shit and lonely and that the world sucks.

  • @truecancer I'm hearing you! Your comment sums up my mood 100%

  • I loved it...

  • Too bad she didn't figure this out for real. Oh well. If you mean that satan is heroin, I'm with ya.

  • love her :)

    xxxxxxxxxxx

  • I love it

  • Wow, sing the blues Janis! You are my favourite!!! She was quite the lady.

  • Frankly,I don't think this is Janis singing.........

  • @CaroleJMA i will say it doesn't sound like her later stuff but its her. the booze voice hadn't matured.

  • what a rare recording. Janis' voice wasnt beautiful, but it was powerful, and she had a tremendous presence about her. Not to mention a lot of soul. Thanks for posting this.

  • @loyaldude10

    that soul is beautiful :)

    <3 JJ

  • i luv janis joplin

  • Does anybody know there are some dozen or more songs AT LEAST of Janis from like 1962 to 64? Um....there's a movie with several clips. Not my movie. I don't make no money. Its before she went "electric." Can you imagine people back then thinking "rock and roll sucks." No shit. One guy goes, "even the British stuff." She told one of the dudes in the movie that was her friend then "we folkies don't do rock and roll."

  • people are so use to the nice tone women have today...but they don't have the soul. And that's a fact!

  • I feel the pain from this song...Viscous cycle.

  • Nice....it's the feeling...always the feeling...getting "under" the music....

  • Sinceramente, extraordinaria.

    Increible como se inventó a si misma y como llegó a modificar su voz..

    La verdad no se si me gusta mas esa principiante Janis o la Janis mas conocida de mas tarde

    Janis forever, always

  • a talent

  • What A Truly Beautiful Voice.

  • @ChrisEvans420 I love this so much, and wholeheartedly agree. I love the blues sound!

  • Amazing. I can hear a barking dog in the background. She isn't even twenty years old here, and what shines through is a wisdom and clarity of voice that remains unmatched to this day.

  • I can't get over this recording. I'm singing accompanying myself on guitar. But I can't get over that dog. He's very talented, barks on the beat.

  • @Chazzan805 that is not a dog on this recording, it is fingers on guitar strings

  • So Bessie Smith and Leadbelly

  • Ha ha -- it does sound like a dog. Man, is she intense. Got a tone like Oddjob's hat. How old was she at that point -- in her teens?

  • devestating

  • i love Janis joplin :)

  • Love the dog in the back ground.Sounds like she just woke up and recorded this.What a wonderful piece of history.God love yah Janice.Your gone and yet your voice keeps you here with us.

  • @itcanchangeyourlife thats not a dog, its her fingers moving on the strings

  • damn... woah...holy..shit..wow

    the second she starting singing

    took my breath away

    so much pure blues power

    woah..

  • I have never, ever heard Janis like this before..that was truly amazing...Thanks for posting this wonderful footage of Janis 1962...:-)

  • @Mariekesone real kick ass - I heard Joplin for forty years doing studio work and this is as real as anyone will experience

  • Oh when I start drinking Monday ... !

  • I love hearing her hit that high note towards the end.

  • If you want to hear the Lead Belly influence listen to her version "See See Rider", now that is totally Lead Belly. Don't you just love what cool chic she was. This song was her first recording and it was recorded the year I was born, 1962.

  • You can definitely tell of the Lead Belly influence. I heard her sing "Mary Jane," and I didn't think it was her, because the early Janis sounded completely different, like something from the mid-thirties, perhaps one of Robert Johnson's female acquaintances, lol.

  • good early janis joplin recording.almost 50 years old..thanks xtimaxfan

  • Very,,, very... Robert Johnson.

  • Playin and auto harp, folkie style no less!

    God you wont find one of those in the KSU dorms today! She knew how to wail man !

  • Janice rules! One true rocker..

  • @10minhappyhour Janis*...

  • @thegreef Thanks for the correction. :) Too many other friends now days who spell it (janice)..

    Cheers Greef

  • @10minhappyhour How could you spell her name wrong when its right in front of you?

  • @ZephyrOrDie HAha, Well when I am doing more than one thing at a time, at my age spelling really doesn't matter.. :) I'm really happy to be vertical during the day! Cheers to you ZephyrOrDie!

  • while this is "live" it was in her best friends apartment right?

  • This is really good. Its, too bad there isn't a video for some on the songs she did way before she was famous.

  • Awe, Iove this. Very blues.

  • I love her. I miss her.... and I was born after she passed.

  • So did I..sad

  • Just like Hank Williams Theres a tear in my bear. Them drinkin' songs to drown out sorrows.

  • Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!!!

    Man I sure miss her.

    I saw C Joe in Shepton Mallet (69?) and felt so sad.

    Even Zeppelin's "best set ever played in the world" couldn't cheer me up. She was awesome.

  • You can definitely hear the Leadbelly influence in the song! Very Nice!! God bless her soul!! Like a white Odetta!!

  • Thanks for posting, this is a touching track, she had foresight apparently

    I love the girl, so much energy and no frills

    her voice was still unbroken then

    may she rest in peace,

    could be the AA club song

  • love that woman. best bluessinger. just such a great presence. Thanksfor this video!

  • A friend of mine had this on cassette. His brother in law was the one that recorded Janis in his house!

  • @cwilleystudio accept they didnt have cassettes then

  • you can hear the influence Bessy Smith/Big Mama Thornton had on young Janis. Brilliant.

  • Just great, freakin great. Loon

  • Thanks for posting. I've never heard this. I love the way she talks too. It sounds like a 78 rpm from the 1920's. She was probably listening to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music as a teenager. She was definitely checked out on what came before as were most of her peers and contemporaries. Back in the 60's you would never hear a young person say, "That happened before I was born, so why should I know about it?".

  • Some parts of it remind me of "Mary Jane" style of singing

  • Definately strong Mary Jane similarities

  • it's friday night... pullin on the cork

  • I love these old Texas recorded Janis blues songs. Something real & truthful about them. Raw, the way Janis Joplin was meant to be.

  • I said so.

  • How is this recording authenticated?

  • Do you mean, is this Janis singing in the recording? Its listed on wikipedia and several other sites as her first recording. If you've had the pleasure of hearing the album before Cheap Thrills, simply titled "Big Brother and the Holding Company", you couldn't mistake this singing for anyone else. Its the first time I've heard this song, and I loved it!

  • I have several other songs with her sounding like this, she got a very powerful voice, besides toddutoob, my aunt used to work at a bar way back in the day before she became an artist, she used to put a tape recorder under the stage, I have tons of stuff like this by people you'd never believe its them, but I assure you it is.

  • I was a kid in the 60's, so there now you know it is her, because I said so as well.

  • She's dead and Britany Spears is a billionaire. Satan is winning, 65,326,997 - 0. I love you, Janis!

  • @Bopalena

    Really sad when you think about that. To this day I have no idea what the hell Britney sings. But the real shame is the money she's made compared to a wonderful truly talented blues rock singer like Janis

  • @Bopalena Satan is losing, it's that asshole jesus who's winning.

  • @tommygoodkin: Jesus has already won.

  • @Bopalena i admire janis for trying to keep it real.

  • @Bopalena I love janis too, Who`s Britany?

  • @Bopalena I would trade 1,000,000 britney spears to have a strong voice like Janis come our way again.

  • @Bopalena to let us Britney is rich, but the star of the Janice NEVER not be quenched. I'm 82 range and there is nothing to remember that Britney, but I remember all the great singers such as Janis Joplin ....

  • is this shit for real.

  • ooooh her voice just gives me goosebumps <3

  • She was so cute. You can hear her humming inbetween her verses to try to keep tune. Love Janis! Definitely an old soul

  • great blues singer and songwriter

  • This was actually recorded in 1965 lol not 1962 just saying, but yes i love this version of janis, its just so folk, and its amazing.

  • No, sorry, by 1965 she was already in San Francisco. This has to be no later than 1963, as she is accompanying herself on autoharp, an instrument that she was playing in the early sixties, while a student at UTexas.

  • Album entitled Janis, 1975 lists as '63 or '64, Austin TX. You are correct. Peace.

  • What a sweet soul.

  • fucking genius

  • wow! i've never heard any old janis recording like this before. this is a real treat! thank you so much for taking the time to post this for all of us to enjoy! janis was, is and will always be the best female vocalist of all time to me.

  • jesussss this is incredible!

  • I do not believ in Jezus... but I do fucking believe in Janis for ever!!

  • la mejor (infinito)% enigualable!!! JANIS JOPLIN

  • Great Find!

  • Janis...the one and only...and soooooo lonely!!!! I love her voice and her everything!!!! :-)

  • aquí suena no tanto a janis como a la reencarnación de bessie smith, pero igualmente, es impresionante.

  • Man, I love how honest she is. She's all "yeah I was shit faced when I wrote this, I'm totally baked right now, so what?"

  • *cough* jim morrison ftw

  • how can u say the name of a god in the same sentence as a new age bullshit term like ftw thats a disgrace, also its incredibly rude to comment something like that on a video like this, even though Jim Morrison is an amazing singer songwriter so is Janis, so how about you stop trolling videos of incredibly talented people so u can blurt out your own retarded responses and just enjoy the video

  • janis thank you for everything...these lyrics describe just my life.....

  • sounds like shes got the ghost of robert johnson in her

  • only one word to describe her voicejjjjjj "passion"

    she moves me every time i hear her

  • haha "that i wrote one night after drinking myself into a stooper."

    i love her.

  • tremendous and yah, she'd been there

  • What a f** good voice!!RIP Janis

  • don't ever disrespect janis.

  • This is a stark contrast to her later (and more famous) work, which feature her gravely voice. It's almost unrecognizable as Janis. One sheds a tear for what might have been.

  • Wow, what a powerful voice - wonderful!

  • credu, q voz d taquara!!!

    nem parece a janis...

  • voz de taquara seu toba.

  • her first recorded song - its content Janis Joplin's self-fulfilling prophecy

  • yes her her voice does sound different than her later recordings but it is still undeniably Janis...so i isuppose i agree with both sides.

  • Thank you for posting this and all the other rare Janis Joplin songs!!

    Peace.

  • get out the hat buddy! how can you not know that voice if your a janis fan? only one janis and all janis fans know the voice when they hear it

  • Of course I'm a fan but you have to admit that her voice sounds different.

    By the way I have had the pleasure of seeing her in person three times, at the Woodstock festival, at the Fillmore East, and at Madison Square Garden.

    If you check below you will notice that I already ate my hat. ;)

  • Nice!

    But........if this is truly Janis I will eat my hat.

  • It is Janis when she was younger. It was one of the first songs she ever wrote. She went through a phase after severe speed addiction in New York where she went back to Port Author and didn't drink or party. Her friends jokingly described it as her "life as a nun".

  • My hat is marinating as I type - SOURCE?

  • Its on one of the CD's in her box set :-D