[...] Joplin steps to the microphone and makes a declaration. “I’d like to do a song of great social and political import,” she says, a twinkle in her eye. “It goes like this.” Then she begins to sing, exercising soulful control over her enormous, whiskey-soaked voice: “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz? / My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends …” (performingsongwriter/janis-joplin-mercedes-benz/)
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:14:34 +0000
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