In 1968, Leonard Cohen stepped into an elevator at the Chelsea Hotel in New York and found Janice Joplain standing there. She told him she was looking for Chris Kristofferson....
Dick Cavitt asked Janice Joplain about the kind of life her parents had wanted for her. Not fame, not the blues, not limousines, feathers, screaming crowds, and a voice that...
Four days after Martin Luther King was shot, the greatest musicians of a generation gathered at a small club in New York City called the Generation Club. Nobody planned it....
Houston, Texas, December 1969. The air inside the Sam Houston Coliseum wasn’t just hot. It was heavy. It was the kind of Texas humidity that sticks to your clothes and...
Four days before she died, Janis Joplin called her mother and told her she was engaged. Her mother asked who the man was. Janis described him. Her mother went quiet....
Janice Joplain was drunk in the audience at Madison Square Garden on Thanksgiving night 1969 when Tina Turner took the stage. Nobody invited her up. Nobody gave her permission. She...
She Built Her Smokehouse Into Her Cabin Wall Three Winters Later Everyone Was Copying Her . . Title: The Resilient Heart of Meta Holmgard In the autumn of 1872, in...
March 2002, Paktia Province, Afghanistan. A US commander, fresh off watching Australian SASR troopers move through mountain terrain that had just swallowed American soldiers whole, picked up a radio and...
1968 Fuokto Toy Province, Vietnam. American soldiers who served there describe a pattern they could never fully explain. Australian SAS patrols would vanish into jungle that stopped everyone else cold,...
Four nations called the target unreachable. Britain sent what was left. The target was reached. Britain had not been the first choice. The coalition had four other national contributions to...