Dave Spins: Janis Joplin

Today we throw a classic at you. One that I heard twice today on the television. That's how a song persists these days. In commercials. Dig on some Janis.

I'm actually doing Janis Joplin as an excuse to post that album cover art up there, by legendary underground comix artist, Robert Crumb. I could stare at the cover for hours, man. How did this amazing cover happen? According to an article in Rolling Stone:

Crumb's most famous cover, for this 1968 album by Janis Joplin's band, was completed in one all-night drawing session for $600. The album was originally titled Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills, but the record company didn't like it. No one was thrilled with the original cover image, either – a photo of the band lying naked in bed together – so they contacted the artist. "I just did it as a work for hire," says Crumb, who was making a name for himself at the time as one of the original underground cartoonists of Zap Comix. Crumb drew this montage as the back cover, but Joplin and the record company agreed to use it on the front. "Janis used to come around, smoke pot, talk about the comics," he recalls. "She was nice." 

Brilliant. Here's today's-

-K101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

P.S: Click the pic below to learn ten things you did no about Janis.