httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjD4eWEUgMM
Joplin singing “Cry Baby” at Varsity Stadium, University of Toronto, June 1970, barely three months before her death. A beautiful, heartbreaking performance: heartbreaking because you can see her unravelling around the edges and hear that mighty voice threatening to break here and there, and she’s only 26 years old. The sound is excellent, and the cameraman gets it right — he stays focused on that remarkably expressive face for most of the performance.
Today is the fortieth anniversary of Janis Joplin‘s death (born 1943).
I have pics of my aunt outside Varsity Stadium at this concert. It was one of the last, if not the last, canadian performances Joplin gave.