The Saturday night groups played on into the early hours of Sunday morning,
and after Creedence Clearwater Revival’s set, Janis Joplin and The Kozmic
Blues Band took the stage at 2:30 AM on 17 August 1969. After an 8 song
set, Janis was coaxed back onto the stage by a rapturous response from
the crowd and closed her Woodstock performance with a pair of tunes from
the Cheap Thrills album. First up was “Piece Of My Heart,” which had been
Janis’ biggest hit single to date and was rearranged here into an
almost unrecognizable up-tempo groove.
"Piece of My Heart" is a romantic soul song written by Jerry Ragovoy
and Bert Berns, originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. The song
came to mainstream attention when Big Brother and the Holding Company
featuring Janis Joplin on lead vocals covered the song in 1968 for the
album Cheap Thrills. Until her death in 1970, "Piece of My Heart" was
Joplin's biggest chart success and best-known song.
The Woodstock Experience is a box set of studio albums and their live
performance from the 1969 Woodstock Festival by the artists Santana,
Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, and
Johnny Winter. Each set consists of the 1969 studio album by the
artist as well as each artist's entire Woodstock performance. Released
in 2009, the set was released as both a box containing all five artists
(10-CD box set), and also as individual releases separated by artist,
each containing the studio album and live performance of that artist
(2 CDs per artist). Janis Joplin - The Woodstock Experience is a 2-CD
release that contains her 1969 studio album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues
Again Mama! and her entire set of 10 songs from Woodstock.
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