Janis Joplin - Black Mountain Blues (Live) - (Bessie Smith Cover) - Early 1960s

[TheSuperDenise]

@edlizard...me too, me too...

[PrincessPainify]

Is this Janis performing with the Waller Creek Boys? Thanks for posting!

[StanleyLockhart1]

Happy Birthday Janis!

[stevevandien]

Great stuff. When and where was this recorded? I'm guessing at some Texas honkytonk circa 1963-4:) --

[engine4801]

ARE THESE EARLIEST SONGS SUCH AS BLACK MOUNTAIN AVAILABLE ON RECORDINGS? ANYONE KNOW????

[minnowpd]

Of all the Rock I played for mom back in the sixties she loved Janis best. I can almost see her now leaning over the dishes singing along on "Turtle Blues"

[derryhawk]

Sad that so much talent gets washed up on the shore of destruction. Like other great artists of the 60s, Janis would have given us so much more.

[ValentineQui97]

41 years :'(

[warmwarmerdisco]

love bessie smith her voice was like syrup down a brick wall or a slow train or something ooh ooh ooh

[randolphfreedmartz]

I guess that it just that old quality over quanity sort of thing.

[lucynumberonefan]

My hero. My God. My Janis. <3

[gazzi22]

Very few whites can get that real blues sound, but Janis had it nailed!

[derryhawk]

@gazzi22 So true.

[laverne899]

@doublejjranch You've got a few brothers and sista's out there, myself being one of them. I lived in San Francisco all my life and Janis was diring my teen years so I was very privileged to see her so many time and cross paths twice. Very nice!!!

[peacedragonflly1]

I grew up with Billy Holladay, LedBelly and Janis. words can never exsplain how I feel when I hear her voice. And only a hand full of people can sing the blues and reach down and squeeze you heart. a lot of singers today are like decorated easter eggs that are empty, when thay sing. Janis feels, and bares her soul, when she sings you can feel it. by the way Im deslexic so my spellings gona suck.

[Friedenspfeife321]

may be some mistakes there, but I totally agree with you ;-)

[mamarcorde]

en plus c'est son birthday

[2reapers]

@doublejjranch I totally agree!!!



[NoRosesForMe]

When I was a kid I had a different Janis version of this song. A different old recording of hers. I didnt know there was another one. Ive never heard this one before. Wow.....She always amazes me. Even if Id heard this a thousand times. Thank you for sharing this with us. ♥

[edlizard]

Every time I hear her, I just keep thinking how I wish she had stuck around longer.

[zabet701]

@edlizard amen

[mpop45]

@edlizard

I agree 100%..Janis is still the best!