American Idol Season 9 favorite Crystal Bowersox joins the pantheon of female rock legends singing “Piece of My Heart.”
Here are three very different, but equally incredible versions of “Piece of My Heart” sung by Crystal Bowersox and two of her musical influences, Melissa Etheridge and Janis Joplin . You can hear Janis’ legacy in Crystal’s and Melissa’s performance – a complete abandonment to the music, the moment and the audience. Janis let the women singers who followed her know that it is okay to loose yourself in the song and give your audience everything you’ve got – no holds barred!
Crystal Bowersox, who’s been called “A New Artist With an Old Soul”, and Frank May singing “Piece of My Heart” at! The Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio.
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Melissa Etheridge, “The Quintessential Lady of Rock and Roll” at The Grammy’s Janis Joplin Tribute, with Joss Stone.
Why would Melissa Etheridge be such a huge influence to a young female singer growing up with Type 1 Diabetes? It may just be that wild dash of courage added to her musical brilliance. “In October 2004, Melissa Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer. At the 2005 Grammy Awards, she made a return to the stage and, although bald from chemotherapy, performed a tribute to Janis Joplin with the song “Piece of My Heart”. Etheridge was praised for her performance, which was considered one of the highlights of the show. Etheridge’s bravery was lauded in song in India.Arie’s “I Am Not My Hair.”"
Janis Joplin sings “Piece of My Heart” live at Woodstock.
And why ! would both Crystal and Melissa count Janis Joplin as an influe! nce? It could be that Janis, known to her friends as “Pearl”, was rock and roll’s first female superstar, literally the first woman to create a band she would front. “Long before she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, Joplin had become a legend for her musical legacy, influence on popular culture and a persona that captured the spirit of the 1960s. Music journalist Ellen Willis believes Joplin belonged to that select group of pop figures who mattered as much for themselves as for their music. Among American rock performers, she was second only to Bob Dylan in importance as a creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation s mythology. She was also the only woman to achieve that kind of stature in what was basically a male club, the only 60s culture hero to make visible and public, women s experience of the quest for liberation, which was very different from mens. “
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SOURCES: Wikipedia, case.edu – R! 20;Legacy of Janis Joplin”
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