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Genesis Publications working with the Janis Joplin estate as they take you inside the Janis Joplin vaults in advance of the release of the limited edition, personal scrapbook Janis Joplin: Days & Summers - Scrapbook 1966-68.
Flipping through the original scrapbook the images are accompanied by voice-overs from her peers and closest friends:
"To listen to her today is to feel every bit of what you felt 50 years ago…" - Jack Casady
"An explosion….a storm of notes…..Hurricane Janis…" - Henry Diltz
"It's hard to remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but I remember the first time I heard Janis sing" - Jorma Kaukonen
"Watching her (perform) you were transported somewhere else for a delicious while…" Dick Cavett
"I've always loved women from Texas, cause they are bright and funny, rowdy….they know how to take care of themselves."
Grace Slick
The comments and reflections, all taken from excerpts of new interviews done for the book by Associate Editor and veteran journalist Rona Elliot, offer new and intimate insights: "It quickly became obvious just how much Janis affected the people around her, and how deeply entwined all their lives were. Her intensity, her total devotion to exploring her art continually, challenged those around her to do the same. Her joy, her humor, her desire for a good time, were infectious," Elliot reflected.
"Each conversation I had added another layer, so that by the end it felt like we had a complex and fully formed portrait of this remarkable woman. The sacred aspect for me is Janis's radiant spiritual power. She touched those she knew and loved, but her life force remains so strong now, her passion so palpable still, that she continues to attract generations and generations of new devotees."
Janis Joplin: Days & Summers - Scrapbook 1966-68 chronicles Joplin's meteoric rise to fame. As the singer found her star rising, Janis created this personal record of her journey and the flowering of Sixties counterculture in which she was to play a lead role.
Posters, souvenirs, press clippings, and photographs add depth to the ever-interesting story of her life. Also included are never before seen letters home as well as pieces of her senior year scrapbook from high school.
Written by the people who really knew Janis and those inspired by her, the book's in-depth text provides a fascinating, new account of the singer's extraordinary life. With an introduction by
Grace Slick and an afterword by Kris Kristofferson, the book's list of nearly 40 contributors includes Big
Brother bandmates
Peter Albin and Dave Getz, Jefferson Airplane members Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen, musicians Mick Fleetwood, Chrissie Hynde, Tom Jones, Taj Mahal, Michelle Philips and Jimmy Page, talk show host Dick Cavett, as well as siblings
Laura and Michael Joplin.
Other figures interviewed exclusively for the project include Woodstock Festival organiser Michael Lang, American artist Stanley Mouse, writers Ben Fong-Torres, Richard Goldstein and
David Dalton, plus legendary rock photographers Henry Diltz, Bob Gruen and Elliott Landy.
This brief trailer gives a behind the scenes perspective to this unique and limited edition with only 2,000 numbered and estate stamped editions available worldwide. The limited edition are also hand-signed by
Laura Joplin: Janis Joplin's sister; Michael Joplin: Janis Joplin's brother;
Peter Albin: American musician, guitarist and bassist, founding member of Big
Brother and the Holding Company; Dave Getz: American musician, teacher and visual artist, drummer in Big
Brother and the Holding Company; and Jorma Kaukonen: American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, founding member of Jefferson Airplane.
More About The Limited Edition
The large-format book (325mm x 305mm / 12¾" x 12") is printed on heavyweight 200gsm paper with gilt and deckled page edging. Additionally,
Deluxe copies are fully bound in a navy, vegan leather, blocked with gold, pink and blue foiling. Days & Summers is the name Janis Joplin gave to the scrapbook she kept during her high school years, and the book's cover design is similarly inspired by Janis, featuring her own hand-drawn lettering and decorative linework.
Exclusive to the
Deluxe copies is a beautiful, artist-signed drawing of Janis Joplin by
Grace Slick. Hand-numbered 1 of 350 copies, the signed
Deluxe print is an archival Giclée made onto Hahnemühle German Etching paper (100% cotton rag, 310gsm) that is suitable for framing (254mm x 200mm / 10" x 8").
All copies in the limited edition include a special 7" single containing two exceptionally rare recordings: two blues tracks from The Typewriter Tape's recording session from 1964 by Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen ('Daddy Daddy Daddy' by Janis Joplin, and the blues standard 'Trouble In Mind'). Capturing Joplin at a pivotal moment, before joining Big
Brother & the Holding Company, The Typewriter Tape recordings have attained mythic status among bootleg recordings. Given the historic nature of the two tracks, the single is pressed on 180-gram audiophile vinyl.
For more information and for orders go to: JanisJoplinBook.com
