Janis hints at romances and tells her family she has decided to stop taking the tranquilizers prescribed by a Texas psychiatrist. To her family, Janis decribes the San Francisco hippie scene, its fashions and philosophies, as well as new bands with kooky names like the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane. The letters record her growing career and excitement with stardom. I understand your fears at my coming out here & I must admit I share them, but I really do think there's an awfully good chance I won't blow it this time," Janis writes home to her family after several aborted attempts at college and her second move to California in 1966 to sing with Big Brother and the Holding Company. "I'm awfully sorry to be such a disappointment to you. Though the letters do not make up the majority of the text, they provide an insight into Janis the daughter and sister, far removed from Janis the star. The book includes 25 previously unpublished letters by Janis to her family in her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas. Laura's biography, Love, Janis, reveals not just one, but many sides of a woman the media never sought to describe.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |