HappyTrails

Today started out normal enough, but then it started snowing ice crystals and that kind of cut the errands short.  I had to come straight home instead of the grocery store.  Well, now we are short of milk and a few other things.   Oh well, hopefully the salt trucks will be out and fix our roads.  The news channels were showing quite a few accidents and there is really very little snow, but so icy.  So, no going back down the big hill to go to the store tonight.

Might as well get some other things done at home, and decided to make sure I follow my own advice and put on some moving music.  The first CD that I grabbed out of my stash of oldies was a Janis Joplin album.  She was one of many celebs that died young, but not before she made her mark in the music world.  Fame always seems to have a very high price.

Her voice is throaty and sounds like she must have sucked cigarettes for 20 years or so in all of her songs.  Unique, especially in someone as young as she was.  Guess it was her hard living.

This CD has Piece of My Heart, Summertime, Try, Cry Baby, Me and Bobbie Magee and about 5 other songs.   Oh, and Janis Joplin’s cover photo for the CD has a lovely peaceful park-like setting with her on one mean looking motorcycle.  She has the 1960’s long hair and the biggest round sunglasses that look plain silly on her face.

Anyway, some of my friends thought it was funny that I liked Janis Joplin, and motorcycles, though we do not own one of those.  I got the last laugh when a couple of them decided to get their own CD.  ….there was something about me being contagious, but I did not catch the rest of that.

Okay, see for yourself, here she is live at Toronto in 1970 and at Woodstock in 1969 performing live.