Description
Author: Janis Joplin
Format: Craft Bound
Publication date: 01/08/2021
Imprint: Genesis Publications
ISBN: JANISDELUXE
As the first-ever female rock star who dazzled listeners with her powerful voice and fierce uninhibited style, few musicians have attained the same iconic status as Janis Joplin. In her handmade scrapbook Janis Joplin created a personal record of her meteoric rise to fame and the flowering of Sixties counterculture in which she was to play a lead role. From the singer’s earliest intimate blues gigs in local coffee houses, to her first appearances with Big Brother and the Holding Company, to the band’s breakthrough performance at Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, Janis’s story is remarkable. Throughout it all, she collected posters, souvenirs, press clippings, photographs and records, and annotated them with her comments.
More than 50 years later, Janis’s scrapbook is revealed for the first time. Featured alongside are previously unpublished items from her personal archive, including letters she wrote home to her family and a preceding scrapbook from her senior high school years, 1956-59. Collectively, they offer a brand new perspective on the Texas girl that transformed into a rock goddess, setting the world on fire with her talent.
‘This is a deeply personal, kaleidoscopic, hippie-vivid portrait of a woman finding her way in the world.’ – The Telegraph
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.
‘Days & Summers features contributions from a who’s who of the West Coast rock’n’roll establishment… Among all these voices, Laura and Michael Joplin’s recollections offer a personal and familial insight.’ – GQ
Limited edition: 2,000 copies (1,650 Collector / 350 Deluxe)
Binding: The large-format book (325mm x 305mm / 12¾” x 12) is printed on heavyweight 200gsm paper with gilt and deckled page edging.
Deluxe copies are numbered 1 to 350, fully bound in a navy, vegan leather, blocked with gold, pink and blue foiling and presented in a navy,cloth-bound solander case.
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\”).
Extras: 7inch vinyl single containing two exceptionally rare recordings : two blues tracks from The Typewriter Tape recorded in 1964 in Santa Clara, California by Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen: ‘Daddy Daddy Daddy’ by Janis Joplin and ‘Trouble In Mind’. Given the historic nature of the two tracks,the single is pressed on 180-gram audiophile vinyl.
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