You could draw parallels between Joplin and Amy Winehouse. Both brimming with raw vocal talent, both living lives of booze, drugs and tumultuous relationships that shaped them and added a raw reality to their blues.
Joplin had an amazing voice that could be strong and clear one moment and rough and gravelly as all hell the next. There are times where she seems to be simultaneously sounding two different notes with her voice (not an impossible technique, but certainly not something that every singer can do so easily). There are some great funky bluesy grooves laid down by the band, but they play second fiddle to Joplin's voice, as is evidenced by the straight up power and groove of her solo vocal for 'Mercedes Benz'.
It's always tempting to wonder what people like Janis and Jimi could have done if they'd stuck around on this mortal coil a little longer.
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