INTERVIEWS
Taped interviews conducted by the author. In a few cases, notably with Sam Andrew, I followed up on the interviews through e-mails.
Members of Janis’s Bands
Big Brother
Peter Albin
Sam Andrew
David Getz
Mark Braunstein—Equipment
Kozmic Blues Band
Sam Andrew
Brad Campbell
Terry Clements
Richard Kermode
John Till
Mark Braunstein—Equipment
Full Tilt Boogie
Richard Bell
Brad Campbell
Clark Pierson
John Till
Barbara Carroll—widow of Bert Block, who was Albert Grossman’s partner, 1968–1969
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott—the one and only
Lyndall Erb—Janis’s roommate, April–October 1970
Mimi Baez Fariña—Joan Baez’s sister; wife of Richard Fariña
Barry Feinstein—photographer; Monterey Pop cameraman
John Fisher—Love Limousines, New York City
Ralph J. Gleason—San Francisco Chronicle music critic
Bennett Glotzer—Albert Grossman’s partner, 1969–
Garry Goodrow—the Committee
Robert E. Gordon—attorney for Albert Grossman, Big Brother, Janis
Carl Gottlieb—the Committee; television writer
Bill Graham—rock promoter
Linda Gravenites—Janis’s roommate, 1968–spring 1970; former wife of Nick Gravenites
Nick Gravenites—singer, songwriter, Albert Grossman’s friend and confidant
Debbie Green—taught Joan Baez guitar; Cabale Creamery coffeehouse, Berkeley
Sally Grossman—widow of Albert Grossman
Howard Hesseman—the Committee
Robert L. Jones—George Wein Productions: Newport Folk Festivals
Jon McIntire—Grateful Dead management
Peter Melchior—Esalen Institute; Big Sur Folk Festivals
Milan Melvin—Janis’s early lover in San Francisco; involved in underground FM radio in San Francisco
Seth Morgan—Janis’s fiancé at the time of her death
Geoff Muldaur—Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Alan Myerson—director of the Committee
Bob Neuwirth—artist, musician, songwriter
D. A. Pennebaker—filmmaker: Monterey Pop and others
Fritz Richmond—author’s Cambridge roommate, Charles River Valley Boys, Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Elektra Records engineer
Paul A. Rothchild—record producer: Doors, Janis’s Pearl album, others
Rock Scully—Grateful Dead management
Bob Seidemann—San Francisco photographer; early friend of Big Brother and the Holding Company
BOOKS
Baez, Joan, And a Voice to Sing With, New York: Summit/Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Crosby, David, and Carl Gottlieb, Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby, New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Dalton, David, Piece of My Heart: A Portrait of Janis Joplin, New York: Da Capo, 1991.
Gleason, Ralph J., The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound, New York: Ballantine, 1969.
Goodman, Fred, The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce, New York: Times Books, 1997.
Graham, Bill, and Robert Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents, New York: Dell, 1993.
Grushkin, Paul, The Art of Rock, New York: Artabras, 1987.
Holzman, Jac, and Gavan Daws, Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Music, Santa Monica, Calif.: First Media, 1998.
Janis Joplin: A Performance Diary, Petaluma, Calif.: Acid Test Productions, 1997, includes ten essays by John Byrne Cooke.
Joplin, Laura, Love, Janis, New York: Villard, 1992.
Kooper, Al, Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards, New York: Billboard Books, 1998.
Lemke, Gayle, and Jacaeber Kastor, The Art of the Fillmore 1966–1971, Petaluma, Calif.: Acid Test Productions, 1997.
Mailer, Norman, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, New York: Primus, Donald I. Fine, Inc.
Scully, Rock, and David Dalton, Living with the Dead, Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
Von Schmidt, Eric, and Jim Rooney, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years, Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1979.
Whitburn, Joel, ed., Billboard Top 1000 Singles 1955–96, Milwaukee, Wis: Hal Leonard, 1997.
White, Theodore H., The Making of the President 1968, New York: Atheneum, 1969.
FILMS
Comin’ Home, by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, 1991.
Janis, Crawley Films/MCA Home Video, 1974, F. R. Crawley, executive producer.
The Mamas & the Papas: Straight Shooter, Rhino Home Video, RNVD 1931, 1988.
Monterey Pop, The Complete Monterey Pop Festival, The Criterion Collection, 1968, Lou Adler and John Phillips, producers; D. A. Pennebaker, director.
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music, Warner Bros. Inc., 1970, Michael Wadleigh, director.