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On the Road with Janis Joplin audiobook
- By: John Byrne Cooke
- Narrator: John Byrne Cooke
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians
- Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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On the Road with Janis Joplin Audiobook Summary
One of Parade‘s Top Ten Rock n’ Roll Reads
As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show—and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll superstar—and depart the stage too soon.
In 1967, as the new sound of rock and roll was taking over popular music, John Byrne Cooke was at the center of it all. As a member of D.A. Pennebaker’s film crew, he witnessed the astonishing breakout performances of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival that June. Less than six months later, he was on a plane to San Francisco, taking a job as road manager for Janis and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. From then on, Cooke was Joplin’s road manager amid a rotating cast of musicians and personnel, a constant presence behind the scenes as the woman called Pearl took the world by storm.
Cooke was there when Janis made the difficult decision to leave Big Brother and form a new band. He was with her when the Kozmic Blues Band toured Europe in the spring of 1969, when they performed at Woodstock in August, and when Janis and Full Tilt Boogie took their famous Festival Express train trip across Canada. He accompanied Janis to her friend and mentor Ken Threadgill’s 70th birthday party, and was at her side when she attended her tenth high school reunion in Port Arthur, Texas.
This intimate memoir spans the years he spent with Janis, from her legendary rise to her tragic last days. Cooke tells the whole incredible story as only someone who lived it could.
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On the Road with Janis Joplin Full Details
| Narrator | John Byrne Cooke |
| Length | 13 hours 19 minutes |
| Author | John Byrne Cooke |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 03, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780698180932 |
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The publisher of the On the Road with Janis Joplin is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: rock and roll, 60s, 70s, sixties, seventies, music, baby boomer, Big Brother, Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Big Sur, biography, biographies, rock music, autobiographies, music books, biographies and memoirs, music book, biographies of famous people, memoirs, memoir, memoir books, autobiography, gifts for musicians, progressive rock, rock and roll books, history of rock and roll, books about music, autobiography books, history of music, rock and roll biographies and autobiographies, gifts for the musician, rock biographies, Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians, Music, Genres & Styles, Rock, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians
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The publisher of the On the Road with Janis Joplin is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780698180932.
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