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janis joplin locations
March 6, 2013 peter bell
Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, TX. The daughter of a Texaco engineer and a college registrar (Seth and Dorothy Joplin, respectively), Janis attended church, sang in the choir, and grew into an awkward teen that loved the blues. She left Port Arthur to attend college in Beaumont and […]
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Johnny Cash locations
June 12, 2012 peter bell
Trying to tell the story of Johnny Cash’s life is like trying to shoehorn a tall-tale into a prefabricated narrative- you may get some of it into a tidy story, but the rest of it spills over and off the page (see the affably bland film, Walk the Line, as an exercise in sanitized myth […]
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