Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1943 / She is one of us

Listen to Johnny Cash singing "Me and Bobby McGee" in the year after Janis died.

"What about Janis, man?"
(from the film "Masked and Anonymous")

"It's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it."
(Janis Joplin)

"I'm one of those regular weird people."
(Janis Joplin)

OBOE LISTENING TO A WINDY DAY IN EARLY OCTOBER

Listen.

"She once walked right at my side. I'm sure she walked by you."
(Mimi Farina)

"Kiss the 21st century for me."
(what I heard Janis Joplin say in a dream I had in 1999)