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